Open Source Licenses and Embrace-Extend-Extinguish

zooko zooko at zooko.com
Wed Feb 13 21:14:07 UTC 2008


On Feb 13, 2008, at 12:55 PM, msibley at itoperators.com wrote:

> My question is:  are there any copyright licenses that are open,  
> but have features designed to combat these practices?

That was the intent of the Sun Industry Standards Source Licence [1,  
2], which was subsequently retired by Sun [3].

Regards,

Zooko O'Whielacronx

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Industry_Standards_Source_License
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Industry_Standards_Source_License
[3] http://www.news.com/Sun-retires-one-open-source-license/ 
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