OSD modification regarding what license can require of

David Johnson david at usermode.org
Fri Mar 15 04:23:43 UTC 2002


On Wednesday 13 March 2002 10:40 pm, Forrest J. Cavalier III wrote:
> I just want to point out that there is one license
> already approved which has a "public performance"
> clause like Bruce gave as an example..
>
> The OSI approved the APSL, with clauses 2.2c-d, which require
> publication of sources upon "deployment."

You don't have the APSL quite right. Clause 2.2d only applies to "Your 
Deployed Modifications."

Clause 2.2d merely requires a prominent notice of the license for binary only 
deployments. It can only be triggered by the creation of a derivative work, 
since compilation is considered derivation.

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