[License-discuss] Thoughts on AAL and OSS vs FOSS

[Josh Berkus]

On 3/29/20 7:01 AM, Hillel Coren wrote:
> It's easy to assume that by deprecating attribution based licenses
> developers will either choose a different OSI approved license or change
> their software from being labeled 'OSS' to 'Source-available software'.
> I'd argue in practice many developers (ourselves included) would instead
> choose to share less code.

Please read the whole of the AAL discussion so that you can understand
the difference between "attribution" and "badgeware".

One option for the AAL would be to create the AAL 2.0, which would fix
the badgeware clause, replacing it with a proper attribution clause.

-- 
Josh Berkus