[License-discuss] For Public Comment: The Libre Source License

[Moritz Maxeiner]

Due to the acronym clash I've now renamed from
Contribution Public License (CPL) to Libre Source License (LSL).
I've also slightly reordered the license text for (what I think makes for) 
easier reading.
Attached in plaintext is the new draft.

Thanks for your time,
Moritz

On Saturday, 3 August 2019 23:48:38 CEST you wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> due to me being unable to find a reciprocal software license I'm truly happy
> with I've been working on developing my own:
> 
> https://github.com/MoritzMaxeiner/contribution-public-license/blob/master/
> LICENSE.org
> 
> I would - eventually - like to submit the license for OSI approval, but
> thought sharing it here, with this mailing list's audience, in order to
> gather feedback beforehand would be prudent.
> The current draft is attached in plain text as LICENSE.txt and the license
> it in turn is under (due to it being derived from the Patches Back Public
> License) is attached in plain text as CHANGING.
> 
> What I wanted was a license that's as close as possible in spirit to the MIT
> license, except requiring any modifications to the software to be
> contributed back to the public under the same license.
> After looking over the list of OSI-approved licenses there were three I
> could identify as being close to what I want, so here are my reasons as to
> why they aren't satisfactory for me:
> 
> Reciprocal Public License (RPL-1.5):
> It's not only too long and complex for my purposes, but it also explicitly
> defers arbitration to Colorado, USA, which I cannot accept.
> 
> Eiffel Forum License, Version 2
> While being sensibly short and concise it only encourages - but does not
> require - modified versions to be publicly released.
> 
> Microsoft Reciprocal License (MS-RL)
> It's copy-left for things such as static linking, containers, etc. (section
> 3, paragraph A) and it deals with patents and trademarks.
> 
> I hope the above highlights that there's a particular niche that's not quite
> filled yet.
> 
> Thank you for your time,
>   Moritz

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                        LIBRE SOURCE LICENSE
                   Version 1 (Draft), 2019-08-08
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