Theodore Ts’o • 1/21/2010

The Transitive Grace Period Public Licence: good ideas come around…

Read Original

The article discusses the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence (TGPPL), comparing it to the author's similar Temporal Public Licence. It explains the rationale for allowing companies a grace period to keep software improvements proprietary before contributing them back to the open-source community, citing examples like the X Consortium and Kerberos.

0 comments
#open source #Copyright #Software Licensing
The Transitive Grace Period Public Licence: good ideas come around…

Comments

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!

Browser Extension

Get instant access to AllDevBlogs from your browser

Top of the Week

1
The Beautiful Web
Jens Oliver Meiert • 2 votes
2
When your coding agent doesn’t understand your project, you’ll get junk
Benjamin Cane • 1 votes
3
LLM Use in the Python Source Code
Miguel Grinberg • 1 votes
4
Wagon’s algorithm in Python
John D. Cook • 1 votes
5
An example conversation with Claude Code
Dumm Zeuch • 1 votes