On 1/28/24 11:47, Alec Bloss wrote:
The Software and Development License was created to fill what
was perceived as a void in open-source licenses. The GPL licenses, while
great, can and have caused unnecessary incompatibilities with other open-
source licenses. On the other end, the BSD licenses, while widely
compatible, are very permissive and do not have some of the protections
provided in other licenses. The SADL aims to be widely compatible while
still maintaining some protections.
This "middle road" was the goal of both the Apache and Mozilla licenses.
While you've taken a different tack on it, it might be worth thinking
about how APL/MPL approached it and why.
More comments:
1. There's no patent grant in this license.
2. The AI/ML permission clause is interesting, but likely unenforceable.
The courts will let us know in the future.
3. The provision for using "3.0 or later" of the SADL necessarily
requires that their be an authority to determine what is an official
version of the SADL, which will need to be part of the license.
4. The linking language is clearly intended to prevent this license from
being incompatible with other open source licenses (IANAL, so I can't
say if it works). However, that's not bidirectional; other OSS licenses
will still be incompatible with this one due to *their* terms. Also,
F.2. would be incompatible with several licenses.
5. That linking language would work with proprietary and
domain-restricted licenses as well, as long as those permit
redistribution of source. While that's not necessarily a blocker to
approval, you might want to think through the implications.
6. It seems weird to call the first release of a new license "3.0".
--
Josh Berkus
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