Thanks for the clarification. I simply reacted to your saying that private modifications are not necessarily protected by OSD-compliant licenses.
On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 4:53 PM Bruce Perens <br...@perens.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 1:45 PM John Cowan <co...@ccil.org> wrote: > >> I think that OSD #3 does exactly that. "The license must allow >> modifications and derived works [...]" A license that even >> conditionally forbids those activities is not, on my reading, an open >> source license. >> > > But of course we are not talking about licenses that conditionally forbid > those activities, only licenses that activate their source code > distribution terms upon the creation of a derivative work. Obviously the > OSD permits activation of the source code distribution terms for derivative > works. The only difference under discussion is *when. *The OSD doesn't > have any language regarding when the distribution terms may, or may not, be > activated. > > Thanks > > Bruce > -- > Bruce Perens - Partner, OSS.Capital. >
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