[Harmony-Drafting] copyleft outbound licensing

Tue Jun 28 16:35:00 UTC 2011

I'd second that. If you're going to use their list, might as well just
go ahead and say "GNU licenses." It would be the same list, but would be
more transparent.

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> On Behalf Of Schmitz, Patrice-Emmanuel
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 8:26 AM
> To: Allison Randal
> Cc: harmony-drafting at lists.harmonyagreements.org
> Subject: Re: [Harmony-Drafting] copyleft outbound licensing
> 
> A formal reference to the FSF list of "recommended licenses" 
> is not appropriate, and even less to the "FSF recommended 
> copyleft licenses", because in the FSF "GPL centric" mind, 
> the GPL (read GPLv3 and AGPLv3) is the sole acceptable 
> license. Therefore the list will be (very) short: any time a 
> copyleft enters in conflict with the GPL copyleft, the 
> license is not recommended (worse: you are "urged" not to use 
> it !) This is contradicted by the reality of license 
> proliferation. In fact they are several OSI approved copyleft 
> licenses (including the OSL, GPL, EUPL, Eclipse etc.) and it 
> should not be too difficult to make a subset.
> Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz
> Legal expert, www.OSOR.eu 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: harmony-drafting-bounces at lists.harmonyagreements.org 
> [mailto:harmony-drafting-bounces at lists.harmonyagreements.org] 
> On Behalf Of Allison Randal
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 3:18 PM
> To: harmony-drafting at lists.harmonyagreements.org
> Subject: Re: [Harmony-Drafting] copyleft outbound licensing
> 
> One thing dropping Option Four doesn't cover is cultural 
> affiliation of various projects with FSF vs OSI. The FSF has 
> graciously created a page listing copyleft licenses that they 
> recommend, which we can use as the "FSF" option.
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/recommended-copylefts.html
> 
> So, with that, I'm suggesting this revised text for Option 
> Four, with the actual link given in the FAQ pages (so it's 
> easy to update later without updating the text of all the 
> generated agreement documents various projects are using):
> 
> ------
> (Option Four) As a condition on the grant of rights in 
> Sections 2.1 and 2.2, We agree to license the Contribution 
> only under the terms of the license or licenses which We are 
> using on the Submission Date for the Material or any licenses 
> on the Free Software Foundation's list of "Recommended 
> copyleft licenses" on or after the Effective Date, whether or 
> not such licenses are subsequently disapproved (including any 
> right to adopt any future version of a license if permitted).
> ------
> 
> Thoughts, comments?
> 
> Allison
> 
> On 06/23/2011 08:43 PM, Radcliffe, Mark wrote:
> > I think that this is fine too
> >
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> > [mailto:harmony-drafting-bounces at lists.harmonyagreements.org] On 
> > Behalf Of Walli Stephen
> > Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 3:53 AM
> > To: Allison Randal
> > Cc: harmony-drafting at lists.harmonyagreements.org
> > Subject: Re: [Harmony-Drafting] copyleft outbound licensing
> >
> > FWIW I like this as an approach.  I think it covers any real world 
> > situations I can remember.  stephe
> >
> > On 2011-06-22, at 6:30 PM , Allison Randal wrote:
> >
> >> Mentioned in the meeting minutes, carried on here for 
> further discussion.
> >>
> >> We've talked a lot about how to handle copyleft licenses in the 
> >> outbound license section. All the current options include copyleft 
> >> licenses, but the discussion has ranged over whether we 
> can draft an 
> >> option that covers all copyleft licenses and only copyleft 
> licenses. 
> >> We added Option Four as an attempt at that, but later 
> discovered that 
> >> the FSF also recommends permissive licenses. One proposal was an 
> >> option for "any copyleft license", with a suggestion that 
> copyleft is 
> >> well enough understood to need no definition. But, the following 
> >> discussion indicated that there were many different 
> understandings of 
> >> what copyleft means, and that how to define copyleft in a 
> >> sufficiently broad-but-narrow and future-proof fashion is 
> less than obvious.
> >>
> >> I had a conversation with Bradley Kuhn this week, where he pointed 
> >> out that generically defining copyleft licenses isn't 
> useful, because 
> >> for the copyleft philosophy there's a huge difference between GPL, 
> >> LGPL and AGPL, and projects make very intentional choices 
> on those distinctions.
> >>
> >> My proposal, based on Bradley's comments, is that we drop Option 
> >> Four, and in our usage guide explain that the best way to capture 
> >> "only copyleft licenses" is Option Two with an explicit 
> list of the 
> >> copyleft licenses the project supports.
> >>
> >> Comments?
> >>
> >> Allison
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