A new, post-post-modern, non-weak copyleft license inspired by, though different from, the GNU GPL.
Contributions of patches, ideas, and criticism are welcome (see the file CONTRIBUTING.md for more information). In particular, the Copyleft-Next Project actively seeks the participation of open source/free software project developers who may not have considered helping with license drafting before. License drafting is fundamentally about establishing policies for projects, and therefore input from developers of the highest value.
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"We" is potentially confusing given that we may have just one licensor. There continues to be a drafting complexity here because I've been restructuring the license in a way that attempts to clarify the licensor-licensee relationship. However a given 'Program' received by 'You' may be the result of a multitude of different ancestral 'Programs' licensed under copyleft-next. The solution here (for now) is influenced particularly by CC BY-SA 3.0. The important automatic (direct) licensing provision of the GNU GPL has a counterpart in at least that particular CC license. Where the GNU GPL speaks of an automatic license to the 'Program' flowing from possibly-remote upstream copyright holders, CC BY-SA says that the automatic licensing of recipients of 'Adaptations' is a license to the original Work. That approach is taken in this commit in the change to the automatic licensing clause. A separate change made in this commit is to move the 'Contractor Transfer' reference from a carveout of the Distribution definition to a carveout of the "further restrictions" concept. |
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