[Harmony-Drafting] Licensing the agreements

[Allison Randal]

On 06/08/2011 09:50 AM, Walter van Holst wrote:
> 
> To my understanding of the discussions, it has always been te intent to
> narrow the number of variations down as much as possible. That
> notwithstanding, I would not be in favour of a "verbatim copying"
> license. Just using one of the optional clauses would be a non-verbatim
> copy and nonetheless completely within the scope of the intended use.
> Likewise, porting of the agreements should be possible as well,
> otherwise many projects that have chosen different jurisdictions as
> their jurisdiction of incorporation are less likely to benefit from our
> efforts.

Completely agreed that verbatim copying doesn't work for Harmony,
because *every* use of Harmony is a generation from a template. And also
that we're happy with more general modifications as well. The key
question is whether we can make a clear distinction between "choosing
options" and "general modifications". This distinction makes it easier
for developers and lawyers using and reviewing agreements to know if
they're dealing with the standard set of options they've reviewed or
signed a dozen times before, or something completely new that's just
derived from the Harmony templates.

Allison