[License-review] For Legacy Approval: TOPPERS License

[Josh Berkus]

On 06/12/2015 08:50 AM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 4:38 AM, Henrik Ingo <henrik.ingo at avoinelama.fi> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> (3) says "When this software is redistributed in the forms unusable for the
>       development of other software, such as the case when the software
>       is embedded in a piece of equipment, either of the following two
>       conditions must be satisfied:"
> 
> I can't quite put my finger on why but the way 'either' is used there
> makes me wonder whether the license author meant to unidiomatically
> indicate "both". Can the license submitter comment on this?

It's awkward wording.  If this were not a legacy license, I would push
to replace that with the phrase "one of the following two conditions"
just to make it completely clear.  Given that it is legacy (and thus,
already in use with that wording), I think a framing paragraph on the
OSI page is sufficent.