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Update LICENSE.md #123

Closed erlend-sh closed 3 months ago

erlend-sh commented 4 months ago

I’m not perfectly clear on how this form is supposed to be automated, as alluded to here:

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2023/12/01/PolyForm-Countdown

This form makes delayed relicensing, as under MariaDB’s Business Source License, easy to implement clearly with any choice of initial license. A project could put any restricted or share-alike it likes in its LICENSE file, then append PolyForm Countdown to LICENSE in release tarballs to schedule a change to more permissive terms.

Would we make a github action out of this?

erlend-sh commented 3 months ago

We wanna be listed as a Fair Source company, which is currently blocked on this PR.

It’s more important that we have a merged v0.1 of it, even if the automated part hasn’t been figured out yet.

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zicklag commented 3 months ago

Gotcha, I'll make this the next thing I look at.

zicklag commented 3 months ago

So the part that's confusing me is the part about the countdown license saying "Each contributor licenses this release to you on the new license terms below", which we can't really claim if we are automatically re-licensing the work with a different countdown timer on each release.

The Each contributor is the suspicious term I guess. Can we just change it to The Copyright holders or something maybe?

erlend-sh commented 3 months ago

I’ve reached out to @kemitchell for clarification.

erlend-sh commented 3 months ago

So the part that's confusing me is the part about the countdown license saying "Each contributor licenses this release to you on the new license terms below", which we can't really claim if we are automatically re-licensing the work with a different countdown timer on each release.

I added a clarification to our CLC explainer that might alleviate your concerns:

Furthermore, as a consequence of our Polyform Countdowm License Grant, all code releases older than two years are solely licensed as Blue Oak Model License v1.0, i.e. no longer dual-licensed.

The countdown license doesn’t re-license anything. Rather, it removes the NonCommercial licensing from all contributors’ works, leaving just the Blue Oak license.

The ‘new license terms’ = one less license.