OVPL summary

[Alex Bligh]

--On 14 September 2005 12:40 -0700 David Barrett <dbarrett at quinthar.com> 
wrote:

> I thought we went down this path already and found this to be a red
> herring.  It was my impression that the OVPL's "distribution"
> requirements are no different than the typical licenses:
>
> - If you distribute to anyone, you must distribute to everyone (ID too)
> - If you distribute to no one, you needn't distribute to anyone (nor ID)
> - Therefore ID has no greater access to your changes than anyone else.
>
> If this isn't right, can somebody summarize with similar brevity?

It's not quite right: different OSD approved licenses have different
terms with regard to selective distribution. Under the GPL, for instance,
you can selectively distribute if you send the source code with the
object code, but if you don't, you have to publish the source.

Under the OVPL, you can selectively distribute, but the ID has the
right to ask for your mods. He can only use them in a proprietary
version if he publishes them and makes them available to everyone.

You are correct that if you do not distribute, 3.3 does not come into
play at all (pace arguments re external deployment)

Alex