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An alternative to permissive and copyleft open source licenses intended to support a self-sustaining digital commons inspired by Glen Weyl's radical markets
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Consider whether the HCL could derive from the GPLv3 with "further restriction" provisions #1

Open lkngtn opened 6 years ago

lkngtn commented 6 years ago

To maximize compatibility with GPL it may be possible for this license to adapt the GPLv3 license with an added restriction to allow for conditional proprietary use. According to the GPLv3 license section 7:

"All other non-permissive additional terms are considered “further restrictions” within the meaning of section 10. If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term. If a license document contains a further restriction but permits relicensing or conveying under this License, you may add to a covered work material governed by the terms of that license document, provided that the further restriction does not survive such relicensing or conveying."

This should allow users to relicense HCL covered works with the more strict GPLv3 and thereby maintaining one-way compatibility with the more strict GPLv3.

lkngtn commented 6 years ago

This should allow users to relicense HCL covered works with the more strict GPLv3 and thereby maintaining one-way compatibility with the more strict GPLv3.

This effect could also be created by providing a provision for relicensing under stricter copyleft provisions.