I love this question. License compatibility! There are some pretty simple rules for it, but the open source community spends tons of time arguing about issues like whether Artistic or Apache are compatible with GPL. And never in the history of open source has a claim actually arisen over this, to my knowledge.
Also, some open source licenses have patent license termination provisions. Though this was a good idea to make code licensors comfortable, again, I have never seen such a provision invoked.
Both of these are pretty nerdy licensing issues, so maybe they are more a time sink for lawyers than developers.
Developers sometimes want to write new open source licenses. I would strongly caution against that. Yes, the existing choices are not perfect, but most of them will work in the real world.
Thanks for the question!
For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse
A community for COSS builders, founders, consumers, investors, and fans.
I love this question. License compatibility! There are some pretty simple rules for it, but the open source community spends tons of time arguing about issues like whether Artistic or Apache are compatible with GPL. And never in the history of open source has a claim actually arisen over this, to my knowledge.
Also, some open source licenses have patent license termination provisions. Though this was a good idea to make code licensors comfortable, again, I have never seen such a provision invoked.
Both of these are pretty nerdy licensing issues, so maybe they are more a time sink for lawyers than developers.
Developers sometimes want to write new open source licenses. I would strongly caution against that. Yes, the existing choices are not perfect, but most of them will work in the real world.
Thanks for the question!