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

[Hillel Coren]

An AAL 2.0 license sounds great, thank you for the clarification!

On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 9:25 PM Josh Berkus <josh at berkus.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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