[License-review] ESA-PL Weak 2.3

Bruce Perens bruce at perens.com
Sat Mar 3 00:18:23 UTC 2018


3.1 Copyleft Clause.
All Distribution of the Software and/or Modifications, as Source Code or
Object Code, must be, as a whole, either under (a) the terms of this
License or the ESA-PL Strong Copyleft license *v2.2* or (b) any later
version of these Licenses unless the Software is expressly Distributed only
under a specific version of the License by a Contributor or (c) the terms
of a compatible license as listed in Appendix A to this License. Any
obligation in this License to Distribute under the terms of this License,
in particular as set out in Sec. 3.2, shall be construed as referring to
“this License or a compatible license”.

Do you really mean v2.3 here?

For* 3.2.1* and* 3.2.3*, I have the same criticisms as for the Strong
version of the license.

3.2.4 *Combinations*. You may create a Modification (the “Combination”) by
combining or linking the Software or Modifications thereof (the “Covered
Code”) with additional code or software (the “External Code”) not governed
by the terms of this License and Distribute the Combination
- in Object Code form under any license terms, and/or
- *in Source Code form the External Code’s Source Code* under any license
terms
and the Covered Code’s Source Code under this License,

It would read better as "in Source Code form *with *the External Code’s
Source Code under any license terms"

For *7.1* and *7.2*, I have the same criticisms as for the Strong version
of the license.
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