[License-review] Request for Approval : Modular Open-source Software License (MOSL)

[Bruce Perens]

On 09/25/2012 11:14 AM, Hadrien Grasland wrote:
>
> Really ? I would have thought that the second line of these licenses 
> ("Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 
> modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are 
> met: ") pretty much disallowed that, since if you introduced a 
> contradictory term in a derivative's license, the "original 
> conditions" would not be met, and you would thus not be allowed to use 
> and release the derivative work in the first place.
So, you want it to work this way?

1. On the part of the program that you own, the license terms are 
entirely as you set them without modification.
2. On derivative works, the license terms must start with the text that 
you used, but can add arbitrary terms to those.

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