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

[Simon Phipps]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 3:02 PM Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb at elstel.org>
wrote:

>
> On 10/17/18 2:52 PM, Simon Phipps wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 2:24 PM Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb at elstel.org
> > <mailto:estellnb at elstel.org>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     So far only big companies can afford to put contributor license
> >     agreements in place. This license ought to bring the benefits  of
> dual
> >     licensing to the ordinary programmer.
> >
> >
> > While many of us would regard CLAs as anything but a benefit for open
> > source community members, the Harmony Project[1] did the hard work of
> > putting them within reach of the "ordinary programmer" so this
> > justification seems misplaced.
> >
>
> I do not mean huge projects like Harmony. By availability to the
> ordinary programmer I mean projects that start at small scale so your
> comment seems to be misplaced here.
>

In what way is that a useful description of the Harmony Project I linked (
http://harmonyagreements.org/)? The name is wildly over-used, maybe you are
thinking of something else? It seems extremely appropriate to suggest that
you use one of their CLAs rather than propose another license.

S.
(Personal capacity)
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