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

[Roland Turner]

On 16/8/25 02:52, Jean-Sebastien Carle wrote:

> Thank you everyone for taking the time to review my proposal. What I'm 
> essentially trying to create is a MIT style license where the same 
> license cannot suddenly change its license to go from being free open 
> source software to paid open/closed source software. Trust in building 
> software using open source software is being decimated by a large 
> quantity of highly used, high profile, dependencies which developers 
> build into their own software on the premise that that dependency is 
> in fact free open source software. Then, after these dependencies have 
> become tightly coupled and embedded in upstream software products, 
> those dependencies have switched to restrictive, paid, licenses which 
> essentially hold the consumers of those dependencies hostage.

Can you provide a single, concrete example of a situation where this has 
occurred, preferably the one that has had most impact on you personally 
or on projects that concern you personally?

(Sub-text: I suspect that there's a disconnect in terminology use 
somewhere, but rather than poke about at hypotheticals, we'll be in a 
better position to untangle what you're trying to achieve, how to 
achieve it, how your proposed license might address it, etc. with a 
specific example that your proposed license is intended to resolve. The 
more relevant the example is to you, the more readily you'll be able to 
communicate how you see it. If on the other hand you can't put forward 
even one concrete example, then a plausible conclusion might be that 
there's no actual problem to solve.)

- Roland