<div dir="auto">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..<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Chris</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 16:18 Thorsten Glaser <<a href="mailto:tg@mirbsd.de">tg@mirbsd.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">John Dupuy dixit:<br>
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>The license states explicitly that any code added during the 5 years<br>
>does not change the expiration deadline. So any new code or changed<br>
>code is commercial for LESS than 5 years.<br>
<br>
With this and a fixed expiration date, your idea is quite interesting.<br>
<br>
However, such a licence cannot ever be Open Source. The licenced work<br>
can, on the other hand, be called Open Source after the five years have<br>
expired, if the “B” part of your licence says that licence X applies<br>
and X is OSI-approved. (It could also work if your B part says licence<br>
X, Y or Z. Or even “any OSI-approved licence”, i.e. if the recipient<br>
can choose.)<br>
<br>
I’d not write a new licence for this. Rather, I’d do this over the<br>
licence _grant_. The grant could just say: commercial licence A applies,<br>
and on 2023-07-30, open source licence X (or X, Y or Z; or any OSI-<br>
approved licence; whatever you chose above) is also granted on the work.<br>
You’d likely need a CLA from contributors or their agreement to this<br>
grant scheme.<br>
<br>
That way you can say it’s not open source now, but on that fixed date<br>
it will be.<br>
<br>
bye,<br>
//mirabilos<br>
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