[License-review] Review request for "CingXaero Open Source License (COL)"

[Josh Berkus]

CouerDev:

Here's another potential issue with your license:

"   Infectious Clause: If the Software is statically linked, dynamically 
linked, embedded, packaged, or provided via network services in a way 
that the resulting executable incorporates the Software's functionality, 
the entire work is deemed a Derivative Work and must be open-sourced 
under COL."

This is definitely pushing the limits of OSD9.  The question is, does it 
transgress those limits?

I get what you want here, but as you've seen expanding the limits of 
copyleft is not something anyone can do casually, per the discussions 
around the AGPL, CAL, and SSPL.  At a certain point, you're asking 
someone to relicense their entire developer stack just because Wei in 
accounting used a check formatter under this license, and that's clearly 
going to far.  Finessing what's really a derivative or not -- and 
whether licenses can cross an API boundary -- is a matter for extensive 
discussion.

Also, given that this is clearly a Chinese license, is the canonical 
language for the license Chinese?

-- 
Josh Berkus