[copyleft-next] copyleft-next 0.3.0 released

Mike Linksvayer ml at gondwanaland.com
Sat May 18 04:36:43 UTC 2013


On 05/17/2013 09:24 PM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 03:31:24PM +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>>> The following are not Derived Works: (i) Mere Aggregation;
>>>    (ii) a mere reproduction of My Work; and (iii) if My Work fails to
>>>    explicitly state an expectation otherwise, a work that merely makes
>>>    reference to My Work.
>>
>> Why the conditional in (iii)? Do we want to allow the licensor to say "works
>> mentioning this Covered Work are considered Derived Works"? Is there an use
>> case I'm missing?
> 
> This is a significant and suboptimally drafted change. Ideas for how
> to draft it better (without massively increasing the size of the text)
> are welcome.

"merely makes reference to" strikes me as pretty vague, but of course
there may be a obviously precise meaning that I'm oblivious to.

But is it not disturbing that a significant and suboptimally drafted
change is in a copyleft-next released version, as opposed to first being
discussed publicly?

Mike



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