Simple Public License, draft

[Justin Wells]

The idea of first paragraph is from the Mozilla license (including the
use of the word "cure"), and the second one is practically straight
out of the GPL.

Can you explain the problem?

As for the right of sale, I'm happy to add that. The basic rights
section now reads:

    The right to use, copy, reproduce, distribute, display,
    perform, and sublicense the software, and to charge a fee
    for any of these purposes.

Justin


On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 08:04:48PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Justin Wells scripsit:
> 
> >   Our software is our property, and it is copyrighted and licensed,
> >   not sold. You have no rights to our software, except for those
> >   provided by this license. If you breach the terms of this license,
> >   and fail to cure the breach within thirty (30) days of becoming
> >   aware of it, then you must cease all use of our software, as your
> >   rights to use it are then terminated.
> > 
> >   You are not required to accept this license, since you have not
> >   signed it. However, nothing else permits you to use our software.
> 
> Any license with this provision in it just can't be Open Source.
> In particular, the "basic rights" enumerated below exclude the
> right of sale guaranteed by the OSD.
> See http://www.opensource.org/osd.html#clause1 .
> 
> -- 
> John Cowan                                   cowan at ccil.org
>        I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin