diff --git a/dosp-survey.ltx b/dosp-survey.ltx index 937b154e4affa5dc6094e12b53852ea8cbf130f1..7e916e353ae00c80dd9833c682df8e48f3d76dfb 100644 --- a/dosp-survey.ltx +++ b/dosp-survey.ltx @@ -86,43 +86,7 @@ eventually decide to do so. These aren't technically in scope, but we should give some examples somewhere --- maybe in a footnote or appendix --- just to make it clear that it's something that happens. -\numberedsection{Motivations}\label{motivations} - -DOSP is usually described as protecting commercial interests of a software -developer by maintaining a window of time during which some users might be -incentivized to pay for licenses that they might not need if the software -were released as open source. - -% Fit into discussions about incentive/funding models - -We've also seen one-time delays for new projects whose developers state -a concrete intention to convert those projects to an open source license. -They may have non-economic reasons for those delays, such as shame about -poor code quality, concern about security issues that may be apparent in -unaudited source code, initial uncertainty about which license to choose, -a need to procure permissions from other copyright holders, a desire to -establish a community or governance structure, or a plan to incorporate -a legal entity. They may initially publish source code with no license -at all (which is not considered open source, because it does not grant -users rights to modify and redistribute the code), or they may publish -a binary-only demo version or versions. Although these scenarios involve -an intent to publish something as open source in the future, they are -also rather different from the cases we focus on here, for example -with regard to whether the delay is \emph{desired} by the authors, -whether it's \emph{predictable} to users, and whether it's expected to -\emph{recur}. - -% The BUSL AUGs also seem to show (especially among database developers?) -% a desire to prohibit direct competition with the original developer's -% own business. A significant number of BUSL AUGs explicitly allow -% commercial production use if it doesn't compete commercially with the -% original developer. Are there particular stories about how this has -% happened? Has it happened repeatedly? Is it something investors are -% especially concerned about? - -\numberedsection{Scheduled Relicensing}\label{scheduled} - -\subsection{Early History} +\numberedsection{Early History} For many years, Aladdin GhostScript implemented a DOSP policy whereby new versions were published under a proprietary license, and then regularly @@ -160,6 +124,43 @@ for licenses. % https://tinf2.vub.ac.be/~dvermeir/manual/KDE20Development-html/ch19lev1sec4.html % and more +\numberedsection{Scheduled Relicensing}\label{scheduled} + +\subsection{Motivations}\label{motivations} + +DOSP is usually described as protecting commercial interests of a software +developer by maintaining a window of time during which some users might be +incentivized to pay for licenses that they might not need if the software +were released as open source. + +% Fit into discussions about incentive/funding models + +We've also seen one-time delays for new projects whose developers state +a concrete intention to convert those projects to an open source license. +They may have non-economic reasons for those delays, such as shame about +poor code quality, concern about security issues that may be apparent in +unaudited source code, initial uncertainty about which license to choose, +a need to procure permissions from other copyright holders, a desire to +establish a community or governance structure, or a plan to incorporate +a legal entity. They may initially publish source code with no license +at all (which is not considered open source, because it does not grant +users rights to modify and redistribute the code), or they may publish +a binary-only demo version or versions. Although these scenarios involve +an intent to publish something as open source in the future, they are +also rather different from the cases we focus on here, for example +with regard to whether the delay is \emph{desired} by the authors, +whether it's \emph{predictable} to users, and whether it's expected to +\emph{recur}. + +% The BUSL AUGs also seem to show (especially among database developers?) +% a desire to prohibit direct competition with the original developer's +% own business. A significant number of BUSL AUGs explicitly allow +% commercial production use if it doesn't compete commercially with the +% original developer. Are there particular stories about how this has +% happened? Has it happened repeatedly? Is it something investors are +% especially concerned about? + + \subsection{Bounty and Sponsorship Delays}\label{bounty} Another model is making individual software features or enhancements