[copyleft-next] transitive grace period

Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) clacke+gmail at lysator.liu.se
Thu Feb 21 18:10:32 UTC 2013


On Feb 22, 2013 1:50 AM, "Richard Fontana" <fontana at sharpeleven.org> wrote:

> [...] I'll explain what this section is intended to

> do (in the 0.2.0 version):
>
> * If I (copyright holder) offer My Work (the work I inject with my
>   copyright interest) under copyleft-next, and later (after a 1-year
>   grace period has elapsed) offer the same work or [approximately] a
>   derivative work under a *proprietary* license (defined negatively as
>   something that doesn't meet the OSI OSD), then I additionally
>   license my copyright in My Work under the Apache License 2.0 (thus
>   giving everyone in the world an equal right to make proprietary
>   derived works).
It would make sense to have the sunset license and the poison pill license
be the same.

Btw, is "permissive-next" Apache License 2.0 compatible, explicitly or
implicitly? #lazyweb
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