Honestly, these kinds of "special" clauses can cause all kinds of
trouble. It's effectively a new license which in some settings can
trigger additional review, etc.
It sounds like excellent work and I sure respect your desire to
encourage others to contribute changes back to the project. That's the
spirit of the original BSD License IMO. And the foundation leaders
would have to address whether they can accept the additional clause.
I'd really encourage you however to contribute what you've done under
the plain BSD license without your additional clause if you can stomach
that. It would greatly ease adoption IMO.
Mike
On 1/4/15 8:39 PM, Terry Ford wrote:
Hi All,
Digital Worlds Group, LLC has recently contracted with a viewer
developer to help us to create a new Murmur/Mumble Voice solution for
OpenSim.
We have most of this solution ready for use, but it does need some
further work.
The solution requires viewer code, opensim code, and the murmur server
to be installed and used.
We currently have a version of Firestorm with the required code.
This viewer code will be on a publicly accessible git repository for
all to access and should be easy for all other viewers to grab and
include in those releases as well.
This solution uses the latest available release of the Murmur Server.
We plan to release the OpenSim code as Open Source as well, and
intended on using a BSD 3 clause license, but we want to ensure that
any and all future changes to this code are contributed back to the
community.
We hope our code will be included into OpenSim core so that everyone
can benefit, but we want to know if anyone would take issue with an
included clause that specify all changes to the code be contributed
back to the core?
Commercial or private use of the code will be permitted for any use,
without exclusions, but we want to make sure that everyone can benefit
from any changes others make as well, making this a true community
owned project.
Anyone have any reservations about such a declaration in our license?
Thanks.
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*Terry Ford*
Digital Worlds Group <http://www.digitalworldsgroup.com>
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