[License-review] AGPL timeline

Pamela Chestek pamela at chesteklegal.com
Sat Jan 4 21:48:49 UTC 2020


Moving to license-discuss.

Pam

Chair, License Committee
Open Source Initiative


On 1/4/20 4:21 PM, Keith Zubot-Gephart wrote:
> On Sat Jan 4 03:18:16 UTC 2020 VanL <van.lindberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> You are right, copyleft-next is engaging in a public drafting process, and
>> has not submitted the license to any authority. On the other hand, it also
>> has a big "DO NOT USE AS A LICENSE" written across the top of the draft, so
>> it is hard to know if this is meant to be more than a drafting exercise.
> This is incorrect; I'm guessing you're looking at the current draft,
> which is NOT the release. The original 0.1.0 release of the
> copyleft-next license was back in January of 2013; the most recent
> release is 0.3.1, from 2016-04-29.
>
> All the different releases can be seen here:
>
> https://github.com/copyleft-next/copyleft-next/tree/master/Releases
>
> Note that even the oldest release, 0.1.0, does NOT have the
>> THIS IS A DRAFT. DO NOT USE AS A LICENSE.
> header, because it is not a draft, and was indeed intended to be usable
> as a license at that point (and I believe at least a few small projects
> did so).
>
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