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Posted to legal-discuss@apache.org by ba...@apache.org on 2018/08/03 04:57:32 UTC
svn commit: r1837344 -
/infrastructure/site/trunk/content/legal/resolved.mdtext
Author: bayard
Date: Fri Aug 3 04:57:32 2018
New Revision: 1837344
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1837344&view=rev
Log:
Adding Rob Vesse's description of Nonsensical licenses; with slight edits
Modified:
infrastructure/site/trunk/content/legal/resolved.mdtext
Modified: infrastructure/site/trunk/content/legal/resolved.mdtext
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/infrastructure/site/trunk/content/legal/resolved.mdtext?rev=1837344&r1=1837343&r2=1837344&view=diff
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--- infrastructure/site/trunk/content/legal/resolved.mdtext (original)
+++ infrastructure/site/trunk/content/legal/resolved.mdtext Fri Aug 3 04:57:32 2018
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ as the *Category A* list.
- [Creative Commons Non-Commercial](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license#Non-commercial_licenses) variants
- [Sun Community Source License 3.0](http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/SCSL3.0.rtf)
- [Facebook BSD+Patents license](https://code.facebook.com/pages/850928938376556)
-- Nonsensical Licenses:
+- Nonsensical licenses:
- The Solipsistic Eclipse Public License
- [The "Don't Be A Dick" Public License](https://dbad-license.org/)
@@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ Facebook BSD+Patents license
The terms of Facebook BSD+Patents license are not a subset of those found in the ALv2, and
they cannot be sublicensed as ALv2.
+Nonsensical licenses
+: These licenses while amusing to their creators are legally problematic. They often include subjective Field of use restrictions e.g. âDonât be evilâ with no arbiter for that subjective restriction defined. In some cases they may not even grant sufficient rights to conform to the OSI open source definition. Since we do not wish to surprise our downstream consumers we forbid the use of such licenses.
## How should "Weak Copyleft" Licenses be handled? ## {#category-b}
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