[License-review] For Legacy Approval: TOPPERS License

Henrik Ingo henrik.ingo at avoinelama.fi
Fri Jun 12 08:38:29 UTC 2015


On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Yutaka MATSUBARA <yutaka at ertl.jp> wrote:
>> furthermore, if the project
>> ceases to exist, it is not possible to report to it.  This term
>> makes the license not Open Source.
>
>
> After the project ceases to exist, users can choose (a) to use our software
> and redistribute their modified software. This does not prohibit anyone from
> using or redistributing the software.

It's perhaps worth pointing out users are always able to choose (a),
even when the project still exists. Hence the groups theorethically
discriminated by (b) are not prevented from using the software under
this license by freely choosing (a), which stipulates a very common
requirement for open source licenses.

henrik


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