[License-review] License Review Submission: Irrevocable MIT License (MIT-I)

Josh Berkus josh at berkus.org
Mon Aug 18 15:35:43 UTC 2025


On 8/18/25 06:31, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Nobody is 'held hostage' by a license change, because the software they 
> have already placed into usage still has its original license. If you 
> want a license which obligates the copyright holder(s) to distribute all 
> of their future changes under the same license, then that already exists 
> - all copyleft licenses work that way.

Yes: this license seems to want to impose copyleft obligations on 
authors, without adopting copyleft, and I just don't think that's a 
workable proposition.

-- 
Josh Berkus


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