I will avoid fragmentation by forcing all localized versions of the same license freely interchangeable. A starting point: the license can be substituted with another localization of the same license, even without making any other modification to the work (distributors and copiers can relicense).
Sent from my iPhone > On 2013年10月21日, at 23:21, Luis Villa <l...@lu.is> wrote: > > >> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 7:17 AM, ChanMaxthon <xcvi...@me.com> wrote: >> What I am trying here is to add similar clauses into open source licenses >> for software, making it similarly localizable. I will also include a >> single-direction relicensing clause converting the localizable variant to >> its base license. My current project is an l10n-3BSDL, will also have >> l10n-2BSDL (converts down to both 2-clause BSDL and MIT), l10n-Apache2, >> l10n-LGPL3 and l10n-GPL3 forks. > > I would recommend looking at the equivalent clauses in CC 4.0, which are > substantially better drafted than the same clauses in CC 3.0. > > That said, I would probably still push for OSI to reject them if they were > submitted to OSI: as CC has learned, this approach leads to fragmentation, > and the open source approach has never, in practice, been shown to cause > problems. In other words, you're trying to solve a theoretical problem, not a > real problem. > > Luis > _______________________________________________ > License-discuss mailing list > License-discuss@opensource.org > http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
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