EPL 2.0
by Richard Fontana
It came to my attention earlier this week that the Eclipse Foundation
had begun public discussion of the drafting of a new version of the EPL.
So far little has been said on the relevant mailing list:
https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/epl-discuss
This caught my attention though:
http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/epl-discuss/msg00013.html as it
relates closely to the 'rule vs standard' issue that in the past was
discussed here.
The suggestion made by Jim Wright is interesting as at a high level it
bears some relationship to what I have been thinking about lately for
copyleft-next. It starts out with MPL-style copyleft as a conceptual
basis and tries to define something more extensive, but (unlike EPL
1.0) attempts to do so by articulating something bright line instead
of relying on some legal notion of derivative works.
- RF
9 years
Impending release of copyleft-next 0.4.0
by Richard Fontana
Hi everybody!
After a considerable and unfortunate hiatus I have resumed development
of copyleft-next and feel it is close to appropriate for release of
v.0.4.0. Especially given the dormancy I thought I would point any
remaining and interested readers of this list to the latest draft:
https://gitorious.org/copyleft-next/copyleft-next/raw/3baab310f662811ba48...
The most notable changes are the following:
Section 2b:
(Non-GPL) license compatibility is now dealt with through reference
to a brief illustrative appendix list of licenses (which include MPL
2.0, EPL 1.0, and LGPLv3 as well as some non-copyleft licenses).
The issue of compliance with export control regulations is dealt
with, something which I have come to view as sorely lacking in the GPL.
Section 3:
This is a new section containing an attempt at an Affero-style
condition. Don't laugh at this attempt without trying it yourself
first (though I should disclose that my attempt took place within the
space of an hour at most this evening). The inclusion of this condition
is notable given that at an earlier stage I specifically had decided
not to have an Affero-like condition in the main body of the license.
The original licensor can opt out. There is a special 'Corresponding
Source' definition here that is not identical to the one for
distribution of Object Code.
Section 4: The old 'poison pill' provision now includes a definition of
'Proprietary License'.
I have eliminated the effort to include an Apache License 2.0 section
5-style mechanism for formalizing the 'inbound=outbound' rule.
- RF
9 years, 8 months
The Harvey Birdman rule (TM)
by Luis R. Rodriguez
Folks, I'm a huge fan of the Harvey Birdman Rule on copyleft-next, and
think its philosophy can be applicable to areas way beyond evolving
copyleft. I like it so much I tried to create a custom t-shirt with "I
<3 the Harvey Birdman Rule" through one of those online t-shirt shops
for the upcoming collaboration summit. Unfortunately I was told that
the phrase was too general and that Adult Swim could potentially make
trademark claims over it. One option is to each out to Adult Swim to
ask for explicit permission, but is that worth it? The folks at the
shop also told me that they could print my shirt if I change the
phrase to replace "I" with some sort of legal group or something...
but I want to keep it as is. Any tips?
PS. If anyone wants a t-shirt with this and are attending LF collab
summit let me know and I can bulk order and give 'em out at the
summit.
Luis
10 years, 2 months
