[License-review] Request for approval of the Non-Coercive Copyleft Licence (NCCL) 1.0
John Cowan
cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Fri Jul 31 00:01:35 UTC 2015
Tim Makarios scripsit:
> Would that situation be fundamentally different from what the situation
> would be if every user of the NCCL voluntarily dual-licensed their work
> under both NCCL and GPL v3?
No.
> If not, is there benefit in making such
> dual-licensing effectively compulsory?
I think so. It makes it more probable that people developing GPL
applications will be able to reuse NCCL code without having to make
special requests to the author.
> The downside of compulsory dual-licensing would be that there would no
> longer be the option of ensuring (to the greatest extent possible) that
> no-one could be sued for their use of derivative works of an
> NCCL-licensed work.
I don't understand that. If the NCCL imposes any restrictions (which
it does) on derivative works, then people can be sued for violating
those restrictions. If you want to avoid that, use a CC0 license.
> In practice, I imagine that a fair proportion of users of the NCCL
> wouldn't be averse to also licensing their work under GPL v3, especially
> if someone wanted to make something that was a derivative work of both
> the NCCL-licensed work and an existing GPL-v3-licensed work.
By dual licensing automatically, you eliminate additional friction.
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
Would your name perchance be surname Puppet, given name Sock?
--Rick Moen
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