I read the question and discussion started by @[email protected] and it got me thinking about where Bruce Perens’ Post-Open Licence project was at. I missed the news that a first draft has been published.

The announcement from Bruce includes the below summary:

At the link below is the first draft of the Post-Open License. This is not yet the product of a qualified attorney, and you shouldn’t apply it to your own work yet. There isn’t context for this license yet, so some things won’t make sense: for example the license is administered by an entity called the “POST-OPEN ADMINISTRATION” and I haven’t figured out how to structure that organization so that people can trust it. There are probably also terms I can’t get away with legally, this awaits work with a lawyer.

Because the license attempts to handle very many problems that have arisen with Open Source licensing, it’s big. It’s approaching the size of AGPL3, which I guess is a metric for a relatively modern license, since AGPL3 is now 17 years old.

Send comments privately to bruce at perens dot com.

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  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    I’d love a Cliff’s Notes version of this draft.

    The arbitration agreement seems really sketch, though.

  • pastermil
    3·
    9 months ago

    I’m intersted in what you can do with this (compared with the current open source licenses).