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That's a really cool idea in a lot of ways, thanks for sharing it. I do wonder if it could be parameterized for customization, kind of like CC-etc-etc licensin
by themodelplumber 5y ago
That's a really cool idea in a lot of ways, thanks for sharing it.
I do wonder if it could be parameterized for customization, kind of like CC-etc-etc licensing, but a bit more detailed. IOW, let's say you cross the barrier from small to big, could the resulting license effects be more gradual in that transitional zone? Just curious.
- kemitchell 5y agoParameterization, modularization, and the like have big hacker appeal. As a coder, I feel that, too. But our lived experience applying them to license terms has been rough. The Fair Source License. Ongoing confusion about what "Creative Commons license" means, and the fact that there is more than one of them. The Cambrian explosion of small tweaks to MIT and BSD terms. In the end, for this license and others, I think the benefit in building recognition of and standardization on a fixed set of terms outweighs the cost of "one-size-fits-all" figures. The most important potential variable, what the paid license will cost if and when you need a paid license, isn't fixed in Big Time.
- HexDecOctBin 5y agoKyle E. Mitchell (the author of this license) was also part of another team of lawyers who created the Polyform Licenses[1] which AFAIK is supposed to be the modular alternative[2]. [1] https://polyformproject.org/ https://polyformproject.org/ [2] https://commercial.polyformproject.org/ https://commercial.polyformproject.org/
- themodelplumber 5y agoThat's interesting to see, thanks for the links.