[License-review] [PROPOSAL] Invite Creative Commons to submit CC0 Dedication.

[kiran.cyberpro at gmail.com]

*If someone submitted a license to us saying "You can license this software
under the terms of the GPLv3 or later.  If you don't like those terms, you
can pay the copyright owners $10,000 and then section 5c does not apply
to you", I think we'd have to concede that was an open-source license.
(OSI might not approve it on other grounds, to be sure.)
*
>> Thank you very much for this suggestion, even I have some similar
question about a case of exception for select few,
if they make some other business contracts with the respective owners.
Thank you again !

Cheers, +Kiran



On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:20 PM, John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

> Scripsi:
>
> > I see no problem with approving it as a whole: the combination of a
> > copyright disclaimer with a copyright license is a copyright license.
>
> Just as an intuition pump for this:
>
> If someone submitted a license to us saying "You can license this software
> under the terms of the GPLv3 or later.  If you don't like those terms, you
> can pay the copyright owners $10,000 and then section 5c does not apply
> to you", I think we'd have to concede that was an open-source license.
> (OSI might not approve it on other grounds, to be sure.)
>
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