[License-review] For Approval: The Cryptographic Autonomy License

[Richard Fontana]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 10:59 AM Richard Fontana <rfontana at redhat.com> wrote:
>

> This seems to be the first submitted-to-OSI license I can think of
> that is intentionally written to extend copyleft to API copyright --
> the first concerted attempt to create an "Oracle v. Google copyleft",
> if you will. If I understand correctly, this means
>
> (a) if independent reimplementations of APIs bearing no literal
> similarity to the CAL-licensed implementation are distributed in
> binary form, the distributor must also provide the source code of the
> modifications under CAL or presumably a permissive or weak copyleft
> license,

I'm not sure if my reading is correct there, but I believe my
confusion is based on the ambiguous definition of Modified Work:

“Modified Work” means any work containing, directly combining with,
derivative of, or Publicly Performing an interface included in or
derived from the Work.

I think you mean "any work containing, directly combining with,
derivative of, or {Publicly Performing an interface included in or
derived from} the Work

and not

"any work {containing, directly combining with, derivative of, or
Publicly Performing} an interface included in or derived from the Work

... but I'm not sure.

Richard