[copyleft-next] copyleft-next 0.2.0 released

Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) clacke+gmail at lysator.liu.se
Thu Feb 21 17:31:09 UTC 2013


On Feb 21, 2013 11:15 PM, "Richard Fontana" <fontana at sharpeleven.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 09:59:16AM +0000, Gervase Markham wrote:

> > I think there's clarity and self-containedness in having a "waive these
> > sections" approach rather than a "use this totally different license"
> > approach, if for no other reason that you don't have the issue which is
> > addressed by the "if you change the license in this way, no additional
> > rights are granted" language you now see in some licenses.
>
> Yes.

Actually, the sunset clause and the waiver of the copyleft clauses create a
de facto permissive-next. That makes it important to take this license
seriously now, rather than as a possible future project.

Is the de facto permissive-next a good license? What separates it from its
peers, like "BSD-new" and MIT?
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