Hi there, Fred Trotter: Thanks for working on this topic and for citing my "Transitive Grace Period Public Licence" [1, 2].
1. https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/COPYING.TGPPL.rst 2. https://tahoe-lafs.org/~zooko/tgppl.pdf I have one objection to raise right at the beginning: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 02:12:24AM -0700, fred trotter wrote: > > First, no ransom license of any type should ever be OSI approved as an > Open Source license or be FSF approved as a Free Software License. > Ransom licenses are proprietary until they are Open Source or > Free/Libre. Could we please refrain from using that word "ransom" for this? Okay, but that wasn't my objection. My objection is that the above is confusing software with licence, which could lead to people mistakenly thinking that software is not Free (Libre) and Open Source when it is. It could even lead people to mistakenly think that a Free (Libre) and Open Source licence is not Free and Open. Here's an example: Apache Hadoop is licensed to the public under the "Apache License 2.0". Apache Hadoop is Free and Open software. The "Apache License 2.0" is an Open Source licence. "EMC Greenplum HD Enterprise Edition" (which I just learned about from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadoop) is proprietary, closed-source, non-Free software. "EMC Greenplum HD Enterprise Edition" is a derived work of Apache Hadoop. Here's another example: Tahoe-LAFS is licensed to the public under the "Transitive Grace Period Public Licence 1.0" [*]. Tahoe-LAFS is Free and Open software. The "Transitive Grace Period Public Licence" is an Open Source licence. "LeastAuthority.com's Cloud Storage Plugins" [3] are non-Free software. "LeastAuthority.com's Cloud Storage Plugins" are a derived work of Tahoe-LAFS. [*] Or under the GPL at your option. [3] https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2013-July/008610.html Regards, Zooko _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss