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

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Tue Oct 24 07:28:33 UTC 2017


* Kyle Mitchell:

> L0-R stars off by giving the same, broad grant of permission
> as BSD-2-Clause, in exactly the same words.  Even with the
> additional L0-R conditions, the license doesn't say that you
> may _only_ use the L0-R with other Open Source.  Rather, you
> may use the software however you like, but it's a condition
> of using it with a patch or some other software that either
> the patch or software becomes Open Source within a given
> time, or you stop using it that way within a given time.

It's still not clear to me whether you want that an L0-R-licensed text
editor can be used to write something which is not intended for
publication.  It's not clear form the license, and your explanations
haven't clarified that so far.

Such ambiguity is a problem for a license.



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