[License-review] For Approval: Convertible Free Software License, Version 1.3 (C-FSL v1.3)

[Elmar Stellnberger]

On 11.01.19 12:45, Carlo Piana wrote:
> Under Section 5.1
> 
>> f) You must make available to the public any Derivative Work or changes to the Work within one month from their creation.
> 
> This creates another huge asymmetry.
> 
> Under copyright law, I can decide whether or not to publish the code i 
> contribute. Under the porposed license, it is required that this right 
> is waived as a condition to use the copyright. I think this is 
> unprecedented. I might be making changes that I don't want to release to 
> the public neither in object code, because they are buggy, because I 
> don't want to take responsibility if anybody uses them. In this case, if 
> I fork the project I have NO WAY TO AVOID PROVIDING IT UPSTREAM
> 

I remember that there was some clause in the original license which 
stated that you do not need to publish code considered buggy or dead 
end. Perhaps my lawyer has left the clause out because copyright law 
would assert that right anyway so that it does not need to be stated 
explicitly. Otherwise this clause is just similar to the vim or the GNU 
Affero license. If this is an issue I can ask my lawyer to re-assimilate 
that provision.