[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

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Josh Berkus


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