I think Roland Turner may be suggesting that MariaDB falls into that
class?
On 10/25/2023 at 9:27 PM, "JBC offsite" wrote:This is an interesting
topic. Your data will be helpful.
As you suggested, "we plan to open source later" is right up there
with Wimpy's promise to repay Popeye "next Tuesda
This is an interesting topic. Your data will be helpful.
As you suggested, "we plan to open source later" is right up there
with Wimpy's promise to repay Popeye "next Tuesday."However: I wonder
if there are any cases of "I now irrevocably grant this work under
Apache/GPL/BSD/whatever, effective 1
(replying on list as this seems in scope for license-discuss, although
it clearly wouldn't be for license-review)
This is in an interesting question and one that I've been thinking about
lately (in particular as a potential talk for FOSSASIA 2024) because of
the recent rush of half-baked "open
Hi license-discuss members,
I'm working on a research project with Open Tech Strategies and the Open
Source Initiative, on the topic of delayed open source licensing.
This refers to licensing models where a project is initially published
under non-open-source terms, but with a promise that the co
I suspect that the conversation is getting snagged on a false dichotomy:
enforceability is not in fact a binary characteristic of a license, only
of a license in the context of a specific dispute, with specific
plaintiff and respondent, in a specific jurisdiction, on specific facts,
at a specif
That's a really interesting way of looking at it:
In order to be within the OSD, the license needs to be actually capable of
granting the necessary rights/licenses.
That's certainly true in other contexts. If the license only grants the right
to COPY but not MODIFY or DISTRIBUTE, it doesn't gr
I ran across this[1], which is apparently a popular license disclaimer
in the Rust community:
> Licensed under either of Apache License, Version 2.0 or MIT license
at your option.
> Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally
submitted for inclusion in this crate by y
On 10/7/23 22:25, Patrick Schleizer via License-discuss wrote:
Concerns regarding the enforceability of a license, especially across
different jurisdictions, should not be a determinant in the approval or
rejection of a license. Enforceability can vary significantly across
different regions d
