Quoting Clark C. Evans (c...@clarkevans.com): > As an update to this thread, I've revived my interest in > trying to keep GPLv3 compatibility with this approach; > a reasonable, attribution terms for a MIT derived license > or the GPLv3 itself (under 7b). > > However, I've expanded the scope of this beyond simply > crafting a license that requires attribution. For this > sort of project to work, it requires community engagement > from the ground up -- even for works that don't have this > sort of requirement. Hence, I've started an open source > project for effective attribution for OSS projects. If > you are interested, I'd love to have collaborators. > > http://tip-o-the-hat.org
Clark was kind enough to send me offlist mail asking if I were willing to 'engage' with his initiative. So: Hmm, I personally consider most licence requirements for 'visual display of OSS attributions' to be at minimum a bit obnoxious, if you're referring to things even approximately like CPAL 1.0 (Common Public Attribution License), its various badgeware predecessors -- as I believe you are. SugarCRM's subsequent torturing of GPLv3 into a particularly bad badgeware licence through stitching their earlier badgeware requirement into GPLv3 via a hook in GPLv7 section 3 -- covering SugarCRM Community Edition 5.0 -- was IMO outright deceptive, particularly the way they ballyhooed that move in public pronouncements, implying they were using stock GPLv3 when that was not the case, e.g., http://www.sugarforge.org/content/faq/gplv3.php. However, even SugarCRM, Inc. could see that that was going to eventually boomerang on them, so they wisely moved to Affero GPLv3 starting with Sugar Community Edition 6. I'm generally doubtful about new licences without a really compelling reason, and the whole sordid badgeware episode from 2006-7 tends to make me particularly skeptical of novel licences talking about 'reasonable attribution terms'. Badgeware was a bad idea pushed by a gang of hucksters trying to con the public and tout each others' stocks in their cruddy little ZDnet columns. (I could name names.) Let it die. (I might be missing something, being in the middle of other things -- and am commenting off the cuff -- but you did ask.) _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss