[License-discuss] Strong non-discriminatory licensing

Richard Fontana rfontana at redhat.com
Mon Mar 16 16:55:29 UTC 2020


On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 12:38 PM Kevin P. Fleming <kevin+osi at km6g.us> wrote:
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> This sounds vaguely similar to MPL 2.0.

Or EPL.




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> On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 11:44 AM McCoy Smith <mccoy at lexpan.law> wrote:
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> > From: License-discuss <license-discuss-bounces at lists.opensource.org> On Behalf Of Russell McOrmond
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> > Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Strong non-discriminatory licensing
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> > About your separation of source and binary -- is the idea to not require "corresponding source" for a distributed binary, and to only have the copyleft principles apply to the distribution of source code?  Sounds interesting to me if you can get a lawyer on board and figure out a legally enforceable way to do it.  I suspect it won't be trivial.
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> > The separation of source rights from binary rights is a pretty common thing in the proprietary world.  I.e., license to source, but internal only, under NDA, right to modify but not distribute; license to binary includes right to distribute, although often with restrictions and/or payment of royalties or fees.  So a decent lawyer, with some software license agreement experience, would find the exercise perhaps not trivial but not exactly insurmountable.
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