Sublicensing
Stephen Pair
stephen at pairhome.net
Tue Aug 19 20:56:23 UTC 2003
Göran Krampe wrote:
>Personally I have actually come to the conclusion that we are pretty much stuck
>with SqueakL. In short - I can't see a scenario where we would convince Apple,
>Disney and all the other contributors (even though the others would probably be
>easy enough compared to the Big Boys) to change SqueakL. And the latest news
>Daniel gave us about sublicensing was discouraging.
>
This is precisely why I think we need a contributor license agreement
and a legal entity (like SqF) to hold those licenses...with a
contributor license agreement, SqF would alway have the ability to
change the licensing terms for all code made available to SqF under the
contributor license. The Apache contributor license
(http://incubator.apache.org/forms/ASF_Contributor_License_2_form.pdf)
covers all past, present and future contributions by a given
author...which means, if we wanted to change the licensing terms right
now, we could use something like the apache license, get all
contributors (Apple and Disney included unfortunately) to sign it, then
change the license. If we required all future contributors to execute
this license agreement before accepting their code, then we would never
again have to go through such an exercise in the future (if we needed to
refine the license again).
- Stephen
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