For Approval: Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, v1.0

[jonathon]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 14:06, zooko  wrote:

> It is clear that the TGPPLv1 does not grant the right to distribute a proprietary derived work for 12 months and then to open source the derived work under different licence terms than those of the TGPPL.

A less than scrupulous business person will instantly see how to use
that license to claim that the software is open source, without having
to _legally_ release the source code.

a) I am not a lawyer;

b) What I write has zero influence on anybody who actually votes for
the acceptance/rejection of a proposed license.

jonathon