OSI-approved license that assigns contributor copyright to me

[John.Cowan]

Mitchell Baker scripsit:

> Your goal sounds a lot like what was tried in the Netscape Public 
> License.  That license allowed Netscape to relicense code under 
> different terms, but didn't allow anyone else to.  That license was 
> identified as "not open source."  Netscape actually had two special 
> rights in the NPL, the other allowed Netscape to include NPL code in 
> proprietary products without complying with the NPL.  (Intent was to 
> deal with existing products and contractual agreements.)  One or the 
> other or both of these was not open source.  So I'm not sure what you 
> want to do will be either. 

In fact the NPL is a free software license, and although it doesn't
actually appear at opensource.org, it is probably an open source license
as well.

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