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

[Elmar Stellnberger]

On 10/2/18 9:35 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Elmar Stellnberger (estellnb at elstel.org):
> 
>> A contributor license agreement will work for large industry scale
>> applications with many programmers. It will not work for a private
>> project of mine because people would either ignore any contributor
>> license agreement in my name or even rather wildly develop different
>> forks without a mainline/upstream project.
> 
> Wildly developed different forks are always inherently permitted by
> open source licensing (OSD #3).  Given that you apparently wish to
> prevent forks you disapprove of, I would suggest that you basically
> prefer proprietary development.
> 

The license does not prevent any fork at all. Please do read the license 
again. The only thing it does is assert that I may use contributions 
made to downstream projects in the upstream project. The fact that there 
will exist an upstream project incorporating all important changes is 
merely an advantage to everyone as most casual users will never mind to 
snoop for and sign a contributor license agreement.