[License-review] The Better Attribution License.
Josh Berkus
josh at berkus.org
Tue May 13 16:10:01 UTC 2025
On 5/8/25 22:53, Lucy Ada Randall via License-review wrote:
> The Better Attribution License, previously named the Berkeley Artistic
> License, also knowable as the BAL is a simple to read, copyleft license
> which is intended to allow for better attribution of code in cases where
> GIT or other version control history is unavailable, e.g. cases in which
> the source code of the software is only available as a tar ball. While I
> was editing my quickly written first draft of the new “modified version
> of the license” clause, I additionally decided that providing a method
> for creating variants of this license might be a good idea. The base
> version of the license is intended to be copyleft.
Thanks Lucy.
Link to the prior discussion on License-Discuss:
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2025-March/022367.html
--
Josh Berkus
More information about the License-review
mailing list