[License-discuss] Mixed 5yr non-open then fully open license

[Chris DiBona]

Also, naming a license in leet speak after MRSA (multi-antibiotic resistant
staph infection) seems weird though stragely appropriate (in that I'd avoid
software under this license like the plague...) Nothing personal meant, of
course..

Chris

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 16:18 Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de> wrote:

> John Dupuy dixit:
>
> >The license states explicitly that any code added during the 5 years
> >does not change the expiration deadline. So any new code or changed
> >code is commercial for LESS than 5 years.
>
> With this and a fixed expiration date, your idea is quite interesting.
>
> However, such a licence cannot ever be Open Source. The licenced work
> can, on the other hand, be called Open Source after the five years have
> expired, if the “B” part of your licence says that licence X applies
> and X is OSI-approved. (It could also work if your B part says licence
> X, Y or Z. Or even “any OSI-approved licence”, i.e. if the recipient
> can choose.)
>
> I’d not write a new licence for this. Rather, I’d do this over the
> licence _grant_. The grant could just say: commercial licence A applies,
> and on 2023-07-30, open source licence X (or X, Y or Z; or any OSI-
> approved licence; whatever you chose above) is also granted on the work.
> You’d likely need a CLA from contributors or their agreement to this
> grant scheme.
>
> That way you can say it’s not open source now, but on that fixed date
> it will be.
>
> bye,
> //mirabilos
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