[License-review] For Approval: License Zero Reciprocal Public License
Josh berkus
josh at postgresql.org
Sat Sep 23 01:35:16 UTC 2017
On 09/22/2017 06:33 PM, Kyle Mitchell wrote:
> Josh,
>
> Thanks again.
>
> I don't mean to baffle. Ideally, the license
> terms would explain themselves. But that's in
> great tension with keeping things short, BSD
> style. I'll end up explaining what this condition
> does, one way or another. So I appreciate your
> feedback on the challenge I have ahead of me.
>
> The role of the agent under L0-R is to vend
> licenses that allow what the public license
> prohibits. A company dual licensing software may
> publish source under the terms of GPL or AGPL, but
> offer licenses without copyleft requirements for a
> fee. If the company delegates the job of vending
> those licenses to another, that "other" acts as
> the company's "agent".
This assumes single origin for the software. What if I make a modified
version of the software? Do I get to designate my own agent? If not,
why not?
--Josh
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