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

Josh berkus josh at postgresql.org
Mon Sep 25 17:19:33 UTC 2017


Kyle,

I haven't seen you address my point that your license, as written, is a
"single origin license".  That is, it assumes that there is a single
entity releasing source code, and a bunch of downstream users. You
appear to have not given much thought to:

- People who want to use some or all of the code from the project in a
larger work;
- people who want to cherry-pick specific files or libraries from the code;
- organizations who decide to create OSS communities around modified
versions of the code.

Clause 3 of the license privileges the "original releasor" of the code
over successive OSS redistributors as a part of the license.  It also
leaves unresolved what redistributors are allowed to do in terms of
agents, time limits, and other changes.

We have rejected other license applications for the same reason, and
even the ones not rejected are still in decision limbo.  You might want
to take a second stab at that.

--Josh Berkus






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