[License-review] Submission of the Upstream Compatibility License v1.0 (UCL-1.0) for approval

Richard Fontana fontana at opensource.org
Wed Nov 30 01:23:38 UTC 2016


On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:13:29PM -0800, Josh berkus wrote:

> Note that Nigel said it would be acceptable to him to modify the license
> so that it worked differently, where the original code was copyleft but
> downstream modifications would be permissively licensed.  I believe
> that's somewhat less asymmetrical, as the modifications would be
> permissively licensed for *everyone*.

I am not sure I have a clear idea of how this would look but it sounds
like it wouldn't raise the same concerns.

Nigel - would you be interested in trying to draft that alternative
version? I assume it wouldn't involve too much textual change.

Richard





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