<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">How about this copyleft clause for 2BSDL or 3BSDL (that is, add this clause into the existing clauses of 2BSDL or 3BSDL to make it copyleft) with a rewritten clause 2 and a new clause 3 (3BSDL’s clause 3 get bumped to clause 4 in this case)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="widows: 1;" class="">2. <span style="color: rgb(73, 73, 73); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 20.6719989776611px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Redistributions in binary form of this work or </span><span style="widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 20.671998977661133px;" class=""><font color="#494949" face="Verdana, sans-serif" class="">any</font></span><span style="color: rgb(73, 73, 73); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 20.6719989776611px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> derivative work of this work must be accompanied with the corresponding, human-preferred source code.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">3. Redistribution of any derivative work must be also licensed under the same license as this work.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 31, 2015, at 06:24, Tim Makarios <<a href="mailto:tjm1983@gmail.com" class="">tjm1983@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 10:24 -0400, <a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org" class="">cowan@ccil.org</a> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">That's pretty much what the Sleepycat license does. Here's a very lightly<br class="">edited version of its additional clause:<br class=""><br class=""> Redistributions in any form must be accompanied by information<br class=""> on how to obtain complete source code for the licensed software<br class=""> and any accompanying software that uses the licensed software.<br class=""> The source code must either be included in the distribution<br class=""> or be available for no more than the cost of distribution<br class=""> plus a nominal fee, and must be freely redistributable under<br class=""> reasonable conditions. For an executable file, complete source<br class=""> code means the source code for all modules it contains.<br class=""> It does not include source code for modules or files that<br class=""> typically accompany the major components of the operating<br class=""> system on which the executable file runs.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I might have misunderstood it, but this seems like very weak copyleft to<br class="">me. The (presumably possibly modified) source code could be made<br class="">"freely redistributable under reasonable conditions" that were<br class="">themselves a permissive licence, allowing the next person to<br class="">re-monopolize their own derivatives of the derivative work. Or have I<br class="">missed something?<br class=""><br class="">How about this for a licence?<br class=""><br class="">The creators of this work affirm that anyone who obtains a copy of this<br class="">work is licensed to:<br class=""> * make further copies and derivative works from their copy of the<br class=""> work, and<br class=""> * use and distribute their copies and derivative works,<br class="">provided that all such derivative works are governed by this licence.<br class=""><br class="">50 words. It doesn't require making the source code available, but<br class="">recipients of binaries will always be free to make derivative works by<br class="">reverse engineering the binaries. It does make itself incompatible with<br class="">other copyleft licences, though, which seems difficult to avoid in a<br class="">very short, non-weak copyleft licence. I'd be keen to be proven wrong<br class="">on that point, though.<br class=""><br class="">Tim<br class=""><><<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">License-discuss mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:License-discuss@opensource.org" class="">License-discuss@opensource.org</a><br class="">http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>