Silly question: are usage restrictions covered by the OSD?
Ken Arromdee
arromdee at rahul.net
Thu Oct 16 17:47:47 UTC 2003
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Chris F Clark wrote:
> Still, I am interested in other peoples impressions of this argument.
> The reason being, I am considering drafting a license which makes
> approximately that distinction. It is a license that is viral like
> the GPL except that it defines its point of requiring "open sourcing"
> of the resulting works the point of derivation rather than the point
> of redistribution. That is, one must release an open source copy of the
> derived work when one creates such a derived work, not only when one
> distributes such a derived work. (There are many details to work out,
> which is why I have not submitted it for review.)
So when someone's editing a file each time they write out the file they have
to send the result to other people? Or does this have to be done each time
the person inserts a character, even if he doesn't write it out?
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