License Approval

[Matthew Flaschen]

In fact, people may be more likely to respond to a polite request than a 
  toothless demand.  As Debian (with their Desert Island test) and 
Richard Stallman have realized, required notification can also create 
practical problems.  What happens if the university ceases to exist? 
Can people still create modified versions if there is no one to notify? 
  FOSS software should still be usable when the original contributor 
disappears.  This has already happened in several cases; people have 
been able to continue developing the abandoned programs only becaues 
licenses did not have clauses like this.

Matthew Flaschen

Russ Nelson wrote:
> David Dillard writes:
>  > Do you have to *require* people to contact you?  Would it be enough to
>  > ask (outside of the license) that they contact you?
> 
> Yes, often mere politeness is sufficient to cause people to act.  And
> for those people so impolite as to not contact you .... do you really
> WANT to hear from them?  I'd think not.  "Jerks: stay away!" is my motto.
>