[License-review] For Approval: Convertible Free Software License, Version 1.3 (C-FSL v1.3)

Elmar Stellnberger estellnb at elstel.org
Fri Jan 11 10:19:14 UTC 2019


> The offending point is that it's the Original Authors, not the copyright 
> holders, those who have the power to authorize relicensing and adding 
> new Original Authors (I suppose all of them jointly, or perhaps based on 
> a majority vote, and in case, how do you calculate the majority? Per 
> capita? Per share?)

all of them jointly.

It is the original authors who are copyright holders. As already 
documented before I believe it to be the most just solution. It allows a 
small team of developers to act like a big firm which employs a 
contributor license agreement. Who of you has ever complaint about 
contributor license agreements? Why do you not complain about Apple 
taking the FreeBSD kernel and exploiting it for its own profit without 
giving anything back to the open source community?




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