diff --git a/dosp-survey.ltx b/dosp-survey.ltx index db3365bab511059e4cd19cf29e5b45db39bf9766..1419498e2192441a82efed7b81a924e860892928 100644 --- a/dosp-survey.ltx +++ b/dosp-survey.ltx @@ -249,6 +249,20 @@ The AUG mechanism---including optional free-form text that exempts certain uses from BUSL's ``production use" restrictions---complicates direct comparison of uses of the BUSL; we have not yet devised a taxonomy for making these comparisons. +% TODO We probably won't make such a taxonomy in this report, but we +% should highlight this as a good next research question. + +% TODO Seth mentioned on 2023-11-07 that enforcement of the +% requirement that an AUG can only grant extra permissions, not add +% restrictions (for example, how some DB-project licensors narrow the +% scope of competitive uses by saying that only commercial offering of +% production database services counts as competitive use) is done +% through *copyright* on the text of the license itself. This is +% interesting; probably worth commenting on somewhere. +% +% While narrowing the restrictions to just prevention of competitive +% use would be an AUG in the BUSL, in Sentry's draft FSL that's the +% whole point of the license. % TODO Sort this table by date of BUSL adoption \begin{longtable}[l]{l l l l l} @@ -415,6 +429,10 @@ itself, rather than adding it as an optional additional permission. % companies that are pursuing this kind of thing. I don't know if any of % them have commented on their views about it. +% TODO (from Karl on 2023-11-07): It's worth raising the question of +% why more companies don't just choose AGPL instead of resorting to +% BUSL? E.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38162275 + \numberedsection{Enforceability}\label{enforce} Delayed open source licensing is less explored than immediate open source diff --git a/work.md b/work.md index 8a23155bc341dd85c90c31554ffdd9119270ef7e..3c674e3b143f57583df97d67e2090e683074d036 100644 --- a/work.md +++ b/work.md @@ -1,3 +1,29 @@ +# 2023-11-07: + +* (James+Karl) High-level organizing and writing in the report. + +* (Seth) Did rate of outside contribution change after BUSL + relicensing of Terraform, and maybe same for some other project that + either didn't have a fork or that had a not-conspicuously-successful + fork. Not sure which project that latter would be, but it would be + great if we could identify one for comparison, since the Terraform + fork has so conspicuously successful so far. + +* (Seth) Similar investigation using bug tracker data instead of + commits. + +* (Seth) Figure out what other DOSP licenses there are: + + See "Licenses indexed there that I'm not familiar with and that we + should double-check for possible DOSP-nature" in notes.md. + +* (Seth) Remaining todo items from 2023-11-03 entry below. + +* (James+Karl, for now at least) We should raise (but not try to + answer) the question of why some BUSL-relicensed projects stimulate + flourishing FOSS forks while others do not. Even within Hashicorp's + projects there are pretty dramatic contrasts. + # 2023-11-03: * Mark items in notes.md so we know what remains to be investigated in there.