Re: [License-discuss] Idea for time-dependent license, need comments

Ben Reser scripsit: > This is an important point. The only way the copyright owner isn't > special for an *overall* *work* (emphasis is important) is if there > are so many copyright holders that it becomes impossible to get them > all to agree to change the license (e.g. Linux Kernel). Especia

Re: [License-discuss] Idea for time-dependent license, need comments

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Karl Fogel wrote: > zooko writes: >>The difference is that with the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, there >>is no distinguished entity who has special privileges compared to the public. > > Note lThe copyright owner is still special, as always. This is a

Re: [License-discuss] Idea for time-dependent license, need comments

zooko writes: >I suspect the Business Source Licence is inspired by my Transitive Grace Period >Public Licence: > >https://tahoe-lafs.org/~zooko/tgppl.pdf > >https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/COPYING.TGPPL.rst > >But, the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence is an Open Source

Re: [License-discuss] Idea for time-dependent license, need comments

I suspect the Business Source Licence is inspired by my Transitive Grace Period Public Licence: https://tahoe-lafs.org/~zooko/tgppl.pdf https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/COPYING.TGPPL.rst But, the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence is an Open Source licence. There's a sub