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Project Harmony decloaksProject Harmony decloaksPosted Apr 11, 2011 16:23 UTC (Mon) by aliguori (subscriber, #30636)Parent article: Project Harmony decloaks
I really hope they remove some of the options. For those that haven't looked, the options are 1) turn over copyright with no promise on future licensing 2) promises to only relicense under ____ 3) relicense under an OSI approved license 4) relicense under a FSF approved license.
I don't think it makes a ton of sense to have (2) and yet also have (3) and (4). You can also collapse (1) into (2) by saying "any license we choose".
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Project Harmony decloaks Posted Apr 11, 2011 18:25 UTC (Mon) by tetromino (subscriber, #33846) [Link]
> I don't think it makes a ton of sense to have (2) and yet also have (3) and (4)
You are assuming that the set of OSI- and FSF-approved licenses will never change. That is an unwarranted assumption. Entirely new free licenses might appear, new versions of existing non-free licenses might become free, and new versions of existing free licenses might become non-free. The future is unpredictable, and licenses can evolve in strange directions.
Project Harmony decloaks Posted Apr 12, 2011 9:48 UTC (Tue) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]
I think they meant that you could get rid of (3) and (4) and just keep (2)
______ can be replaced by "an FSF approved license" just as easily as by any other text. So having these explicit options serves no legal purpose.
If we envisioned this as a web form, it might be slightly easier to click (3) than to pick "an FSF approved license" but if this is to be paperwork that requires signatures and so on then you've shaved a few seconds off what's perhaps several hours of work.
Project Harmony decloaks Posted Apr 19, 2011 11:18 UTC (Tue) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link]
While it might make sense to make the legal jargon similar for the four options, there is value in having separate names for the four contributor agreements. That way people can easily communicate the intent of the agreement with the name, rather than requiring you to read through and see which option has been checked in a multi-choice template agreement.
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