[License-review] For Legacy Approval: TOPPERS License

[Josh Berkus]

On 06/11/2015 09:31 AM, Yutaka MATSUBARA wrote:
> Hello John Cowan,
> 
> Thank you for the reply.
> 
>>>      (b) How the software is to be redistributed must be reported to the
>>>          TOPPERS Project according to the procedure described
>>>          separately.
>>
>> Unfortunately, this discriminates against people who for whatever
>> reason cannot follow that procedure;
> 
> We believe this is not discrimination. If it is discrimination,
> the clause for conveying the corresponding source code in GPLv2 Section
> 3 and GPLv3 Section 6 can be also discrimination against people who
> cannot follow these texts.

Neither of those sections requires reporting to any specific entity.

However, this does raise a question.  Provision (3)(b) is not required;
users can follow provision (3)(a).  I believe, in the case of the NASA
license, we allowed that reporting to an entity was permissiable in an
OSS license as long as it was optional.  In this case, it is optional.