On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 9:23 AM Brendan Hickey <brendan.m.hic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Separate from the question of feasibility is the policy question. Is > strong non-discrimination desirable in open source software licensing? > I think it is desirable to have a community around specific software able to protect itself from some of the more abusive proprietary concepts while remaining largely permissive. As as a policy goal it seems like what you are looking for is a more permissive copyleft. I've been hoping that people will look at the copyleft concept and seek other bundles of exclusive rights waivers for derivative works. I've been concerned that the GNU GPL is far too concerned about linking, and that has lead them towards seeking to harness legal control around and through interfaces. About your separation of source and binary -- is the idea to not require "corresponding source" for a distributed binary, and to only have the copyleft principles apply to the distribution of source code? Sounds interesting to me if you can get a lawyer on board and figure out a legally enforceable way to do it. I suspect it won't be trivial.
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