[License-review] Submission for review of Mulan Public License，Version 2

[Mike Linksvayer]

On Sat, Nov 9, 2024 at 1:02 PM Josh Berkus <josh at berkus.org> wrote:

> On 10/25/24 01:54, 江波 wrote:
> > The Mulan Public License (Mulan PubL) belongs to the Mulan Open Source
> > License family (https://license.coscl.org.cn/). Previously, the Mulan
> > PSL v2 under the Mulan Open Source License family was OSI-approved in
> > 2020. Mulan PubL v2 builds upon Mulan PSL v2 by adding copyleft
> > provisions, restricting distribution conditions for emerging
> > technologies like SaaS.
>
> Industry-specific restrictions are a violation of OSD6, aside from
> having serious enforcement problems.  Is there some reason why you
> believe that the provisions, as you've written them, comply with the OSD?
>

Not the submitter of affiliated in any way but FWIW/AFAICT "restricting
distribution conditions for emerging technologies like SaaS" is a lot more
boring than those words make it seem. From the license text: "Distribute
(or Distribution) means the act of making the Contribution or Derivative
Work available to others through any medium, and using the Contribution or
Derivative Work to provide online services to users, such as the act of
providing online services through a cloud service platform built using
Contributions or Derivative Works."

What really got me mildy curious enough to look more as mild aficionado of
attempted copyleft compatibility is this sole exception included in the
license text: "If you combine Contribution or your Derivative Work with a
work licensed under the GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3
(hereinafter referred to as “AGPLv3”) or its subsequent versions, and
according to the AGPLv3 or its subsequent versions, you have an obligation
to make the combined work to be licensed under the corresponding license,
you can license such combined work under the license, provided that when
you Distribute the combined work, you also provide a copy of this License
to the recipients, and retain copyright, trademarks, patents, and
disclaimer statements in the Contribution. No Contributor will grant
additional rights to the recipients of the combined work for your license
under AGPLv3 or its subsequent versions."

Not certain I can fully parse that, but hopefully the intent is combined
work can be released under AGPL-3.0-or-greater and hopefully it does work.

Given lack of an SPDX identifier I submitted
https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2618 while reading about
this license.

Mike
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