On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 09:18:50PM -0400, Richard Fontana wrote:
Good news, everyone! copyleft-next 0.3.0 has been released!
https://gitorious.org/copyleft-next/copyleft-next/blobs/raw/master/Releas...
A summary of changes relative to the previous released verson shall be
provided in due course.
Principal changes from 0.2.1 to 0.3.0:
* Adopting a suggestion from Luis Villa, the consequence of the
nullification provision being triggered is clarified to indicate
that it's the conditions of the indicated sections that My Work is
no longer subject to.
* The MPL 2.0-influenced GPL compatibility approach is extended to
AGPLv3+ (through a redefinition of 'GPL').
* In an important change, all licenses that are both OSI-approved and
classified by the FSF as 'free' (as of the release date) are deemed
inbound-compatible with copyleft-next, provided that distribution of
a Covered Work incorporating code from the non-copyleft-next license
does not violate the latter license. I wonder whether this should go
even further, but this certainly expands the set of licenses that
are copyleft-next-compatible beyond those that are
GPL-compatible. For example, and connecting this to a thread from
several months ago, I would now assume that EPL code is
copyleft-next-compatible, whereas EPL remains GPL-incompatible under
orthodox doctrine.
* The section on distributing object code is made clearer in certain
respects, though no substantive change is made.
* The wording of the 'copyleft sunset' provision is made clearer in
certain respects, though no substantive change is made.
* The part of the termination provision that is intended to make clear
that you can't avoid the effect of termination merely by getting a
new licensed copy is made clearer in certain respects, though no
substantive change is made.
* As discussed elsewhere in this thread, the definition of "Derived
Work" now carves out "a work that merely makes reference to My Work"
"if My Work fails to explicitly state an expectation otherwise".
- RF