Contributor License

[Mark Rafn]

On Tue, 27 May 2003, Philip Tomlinson wrote:

> I want to create a license in which the software is free to use by all
> contributors but not by those who don't contribute.

This is a bad idea, IMO.

I don't know if this would fail OSD#5 or not, but I suspect so.  

There's also a very big practical problem in that copyright law doesn't
restrict use, so you can really only limit distribution by
non-contributors.  This leaves out almost all public FTP sites, so it'll 
be hard to get your software out there.

> A contributor is going to be anyone who contributes bugs, features,
> suggestions or feedback.

If you do this, you should expect to get mostly useless one-line bugs,
features, suggestions, and feedback just so people can qualify.
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