For Approval: Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, v1.0
Russ Nelson
nelson at crynwr.com
Thu Feb 5 11:19:54 UTC 2009
zooko writes:
> However, the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence experiment is not
> that one. The TGPPL experiment attempts to encourage cooperative
> software development by allowing anyone in the world to re-use source
> code and distribute a proprietary derived work for up to twelve
> months, *provided* that they extend the same grant of rights,
> including the twelve month grace period, to everyone who uses their
> derived work, and everyone who uses derived derived works, etc,
> transitively.
The board is not comfortable with the discussion of the transitive
quality of this license, and would like more discussion by
license-review members. Thank you for the discussion so far.
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