[License-review] Request for Approval : Modular Open-source Software License (MOSL)

Bruce Perens bruce at perens.com
Tue Sep 25 06:00:10 UTC 2012


I'm afraid you missed "The license shall not require a royalty or other 
fee for such sale" in the Open Source Definition.
It fine for a proprietary license, but there's no point in submitting it 
to this group.

We really like forks. Especially zero-price ones.

On 09/24/2012 10:46 PM, Hadrien Grasland wrote:
> that could be incompatible with my previously stated goals of letting 
> people sell software without allowing customers to take the source, 
> make a trivial fork of it, and sell it at a lower price.
...
> The source code must either be included in the distribution or be 
> available for no more than the cost of distribution. For an executable 
> file, complete source code means the source code for all modules it 
> contains. It does not include source code for modules or files that 
> typically accompany the major components of the operating system on 
> which the executable file runs.

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