[License-review] For Approval: Convertible Free Software License, Version 1.1 (C-FSL v1.1)

Elmar Stellnberger estellnb at elstel.org
Tue Oct 2 18:47:16 UTC 2018


> If it doesn't work, it's because those people don't see value in /you 
> /leading the project. If they did, they'd likely cooperate. This seems 
> to me to be fundamental to Open Source. This idea of suppressing or 
> co-opting forks seems to me to go against the nature of Open Source.

The license does not suppress any fork. It just avoids some odd 
bureaucracy and asserts that contributions can be used as such. There 
must be some outperforming advantage in the leadership of the original 
author so that people will care about snooping and signing an extra 
document when they just want to apply a small change (like f.i. 
distributors commonly do). That will not only make life easier to me as 
an original author but also for other distributors since I may collect 
useful changes in one place.



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