[License-review] Approval submission for the Qlovatech License Revision 1

Fri Feb 12 16:23:40 UTC 2021

Hi Quentin,

The license-review list should not be used as a workshop for a license 
and it is unmanageable to revise the license while it is under review. 
The appropriate process would be to withdraw the original license and 
resubmit a revised license. But I would not recommend doing that yet. I 
would wait for more review of the license because it is likely you will 
still get more comments and you may make yet even more changes, so I 
would give it some more time.

So at the moment, the original license is the one that has been formally 
submitted.

Pam

Pamela Chestek
Chair, License Committee
Open Source Initiative

On 2/12/2021 5:09 AM, Quentin Quaadgras wrote:
> Lukas,
>
> Thank you for taking the time to make a detailed commentary on my submission.
> I've revised the License and included it below in order to substantially clarify it and address compliance concerns.
>
> McCoy indicated that the 'enforcement' clause could be problematic but as Eric pointed out, enforcement can be
> difficult and expensive, so I wish to maintain this clause so that 'community' enforcement is possible.
> As I understand it, the GNU Project asks contributors to assign their copyright to them so that they are more equipped to
> enforce their license terms but I am not sure if this is because of possible standing issues in court.
> Are there any lawyers here who know if the 'enforcement' clause has any effect?
>
> Quentin
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