[Vanhackspace] Proposed change to principles: requiring openness on VHS projects

[Derek Anderson]

I think that we are going to have to allow alternative licenses to the GPL.
Not all "OPEN" licenses are compatible with the GPL, which may restrict our
source libraries on projects (ie: what if we want to use Sun or AGPL
licensed code).

http://www.opensource.org/licenses has a list of all the OSI approved
licenses, and I propose we accept any of those.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Jeff Davis <jeff at textsfornothing.com>wrote:

> Our principles[*] currently say that VHS is a "GPL/Creative Commons"
> space and require that anything developed at the space be released under
> the GPL or a Creative Commons license.  This came up at tonight's
> infrastructure meeting, and it was proposed that we change this to say
> that VHS group projects and projects using VHS infrastructure must be
> "open," in two senses:
>
> (1) Anyone can participate.
> (2) The project must be released under a free/open source license (not
> necessarily the GPL).
>
> This would mean that if you are running a project on our servers, or
> doing substantial development work on it using our servers, you'd need
> to release your code under an open license.  If you're just working on
> something on your laptop, no such expectation would exist.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Jeff
>
> [*]: http://vancouver.hackspace.ca/doku.php?id=principles
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