Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > If I am the copyright holder of my code, I can issue it with a license > that requires anyone who modifies my source code to provide me with > the changes to my code that they make. ... > PS: It is the case that neither the GPL nor APLv2 have such a > compulsory condition and it would be interesting to see what the FSF > would say in the event someone sublicensed a GPL derivative in that > manner.
Adding to what Greg already wrote (i.e., you need that a distribution of the software happens in order to enforce this), this requirement is considered compatible with Free Software licenses. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html (search for "previous developer" or read the last line about revision 1.11). But it is not possible to attach it to existing LGPL3/GPL3 code since it would violate section 10 of GPL3: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#OrigBSD Regards, Andrea. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
