For Approval: Open Source Software Alliance License

[John Cowan]

David Presotto scripsit:

> As an aside, it might have been less inflamatory if the license has said ``if
> source of the program and any derivatives is distributed under an inheritive
> license (e.g. GPL), it must ALSO be distributed under this license.''
> Then Sean would always have access to changed code for his proprietary works
> if anyone has access to them.  Someone must have suggested this already but
> I don't see it in the archive.

No, no one has, and I think this is quite a clever idea.  It's appropriate
to apply it to derivative works only, not to to distributions of
unchanged code.

Sean, what do you think?

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