Folks: I offer the following assertions about the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence (TGPPL) [1, 2].
* TGPPL is a Free Software and Open Source licence. (As I've argued: [3, 4].) * It is not redundant with any existing Free+Open licence. (As I've argued: [5, 2].) * It is not like the practice that Aladdin Software had of releasing older versions under a Free+Open licence. (As I've argued: [5].) * It is currently in active use [6]. I hereby make the following requests: * Help me think of problems or issues with this licence that I'm not already aware of. * Help me improve the licence for future revisions. * Register TGPPL in the lists of Open Source Licences [7] and Free Software Licences [8]. * Consider incorporating "The Transitive Grace Period idea" into future Free and Open licences such as future revisions of GPL or copyleft-next. (Although according to Bradley Kuhn's and Richard Fontana's recent letters, that may be off-topic for this list.) You may be interested in the fact that my startup has just announced our first commercial product, which is the (Free and Open) Tahoe-LAFS software: https://leastauthority.com/blog/category/press-releases.html You may also be interested in this related conversation, about the importance of software distribution and licensing, among other things, in today's world of ubiquitous surveillance: https://leastauthority.com/blog/open_letter_silent_circle.html http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2013-August/005095.html Regards, Zooko [1] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/COPYING.TGPPL.rst [2] https://tahoe-lafs.org/~zooko/tgppl.pdf [3] http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss/2013-August/001087.html [4] http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss/2013-August/001088.html [5] http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss/2013-August/001169.html [6] https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2013-July/008610.html [7] http://opensource.org/licenses/ [8] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
