Hi everybody!
After a considerable and unfortunate hiatus I have resumed development
of copyleft-next and feel it is close to appropriate for release of
v.0.4.0. Especially given the dormancy I thought I would point any
remaining and interested readers of this list to the latest draft:
https://gitorious.org/copyleft-next/copyleft-next/raw/3baab310f662811ba48...
The most notable changes are the following:
Section 2b:
(Non-GPL) license compatibility is now dealt with through reference
to a brief illustrative appendix list of licenses (which include MPL
2.0, EPL 1.0, and LGPLv3 as well as some non-copyleft licenses).
The issue of compliance with export control regulations is dealt
with, something which I have come to view as sorely lacking in the GPL.
Section 3:
This is a new section containing an attempt at an Affero-style
condition. Don't laugh at this attempt without trying it yourself
first (though I should disclose that my attempt took place within the
space of an hour at most this evening). The inclusion of this condition
is notable given that at an earlier stage I specifically had decided
not to have an Affero-like condition in the main body of the license.
The original licensor can opt out. There is a special 'Corresponding
Source' definition here that is not identical to the one for
distribution of Object Code.
Section 4: The old 'poison pill' provision now includes a definition of
'Proprietary License'.
I have eliminated the effort to include an Apache License 2.0 section
5-style mechanism for formalizing the 'inbound=outbound' rule.
- RF