[License-review] For Approval: License Zero Reciprocal Public License

[Bruce Perens]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Kyle Mitchell <kyle at kemitchell.com> wrote:

>
>   3.  Use with any modification constituting a "derivative
>       work" under copyright law must be accompanied by
>       release of that modification as Open Source Software
>       per the Open Source Definition published by the Open
>       Source Initiative.
>

So, it's not the act of modification that triggers the license terms, but
it's the act of running the program along with such a modification. Until
one actually runs the program, the act of producing a modification is
unrestricted.

And then it's not *any *modification, but only one that constitutes a
derivative work, and thus is neither de minimus, fair use, nor any sort of
modifcation that does not constitute a derivative work because copyright
law understands textual alteration to be a derivative work and does not
take notice of the infinite number of ways of combining two programs
together.

I am failing to understand how this makes things simpler :-)
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