[License-review] For approval: The Cryptographic Autonomy License (Beta 4)

[Josh Berkus]

On 12/13/19 6:09 AM, Pamela Chestek wrote:
> The CAL is a very strong copyleft license. How does that affect this
> hypothetical? Can a CAL-licensed database be used for a node.js-based
> end-user app?

I don't see why not -- in fact, I anticipate that this will be the
primary use of the CAL, blockchain folks nonwithstanding.

That's why I'm so interested in making sure that it is viable for that
use-case.

Note that liberally-licensed code on top of strong-copyleft databases is
already a commonality in the industry, and is why there are so many
arguments about how the DB client libraries are licensed.  For example,
MySQL changing its client library license from LGPL to GPL back in 2006
caused quite a stir, because it effectively forced relicensing of a
whole generation of PHP applications.

So I don't think the CAL is novel in that respect.

-- 
Josh Berkus