[License-review] For Legacy Approval: TOPPERS License

[Gervase Markham]

On 13/06/15 00:38, Yutaka MATSUBARA wrote:
>> It is assumed that if you are capable of
>> sending someone data packet A (the binary), you can send them data
>> packet B (the source) also.
> 
> This assumption is not permanently guaranteed. For example, after you
> distribute data packets A on the web, you move to a desert island.

That is why the GPL requires the packets to be sent (or offered) at the
same time. :-)

> So, I believe that if GPLv2 Section3 and GPLv3 Section 6 are not
> discrimination, TOPPERS lisence (3)(b) can be also approved as
> non-discrimination.

There is a reasonable amount of historical precedent that mandatory
notification requirements make a license not open source.

However, as noted in this thread, this question is moot because people
can just do a) instead.

Gerv