compatibility and the OSD

Bob Scheifler Bob.Scheifler at Sun.COM
Mon Sep 20 16:20:02 UTC 2004


> What's to keep someone from making a derivative that passes the test suite,
> then distributing it under BSD using clause 2, then taking the BSD-licensed
> copy (to which clauses 1-3 no longer apply, since it is BSD licensed and not
> under your license any more), modifying it to fail the test suite, and
> distributing it?

Let's say, for the sake of argument, that nothing prevents its.
I'm not interested (at this point) in whether the license sketch
is leaky; I'm interested in whether, in principle, it would satisfy
the OSD.

- Bob




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