Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft

Posted Oct 19, 2015 21:43 UTC (Mon) by rfontana (subscriber, #52677)
In reply to: Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft by Beolach
Parent article: Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft

Yes: A license I have been drafting over the past few years, copyleft-next, has a "copyleft sunset" provision:

The conditions in sections 2 through 5 [i.e., the copyleft conditions] no longer apply once fifteen
years have elapsed from the date of My first Distribution of My Work
under this License.

Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft

Posted Oct 20, 2015 16:52 UTC (Tue) by jra (subscriber, #55261) [Link] (1 responses)

Did you miss or ignore the part of the article above that states :

"License proliferation was so rampant ten years ago that Fink made a public plea at Linux World 2005 for the Open Source Initiative (OSI) to stop adding new licenses to its approved list. The problem, of course, is that each additional license increases the complexity of the ecosystem and, thus, creates a legal maze that makes it hard to participate. "If I had been Steve Ballmer, trying to kill Linux, I would have just encouraged people to make more licenses."

or are you just trying to resurrect the license proliferation problem 'cos you're a fan of zombie shows ?

Writing a new license is *not* helpful at this point in time.

Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft

Posted Mar 15, 2016 3:02 UTC (Tue) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

copyleft-next is an experiment and exploration of the possibilities of copyleft licensing, I wouldn't call it license proliferation at this point.