[License-review] Request for approval of the Non-Coercive Copyleft Licence (NCCL) 1.0

[John Cowan]

Tim Makarios scripsit:

> If you rely on this licence for your right to distribute a Derived Work,
> you must give back to the community by agreeing that the Derived Work is
> governed by this version of the NCCL or substantially similar terms,
> without adding further restrictions to the rights provided.  

I recommend that so as not to create a sealed-off software commons,
you also allow derived works to be licensed under the GPL v3 or under
both licenses.  I make this recommendation whenever a new copyleft
license is proposed.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
If I read "upcoming" in [the newspaper] once more, I will be downcoming
and somebody will be outgoing.