From 7a8e362ad0467f08da0c907b7f7b7420a5333a58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Seth Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 14:43:50 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add "unscheduled" examples --- unscheduled.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 unscheduled.md diff --git a/unscheduled.md b/unscheduled.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..446fa92 --- /dev/null +++ b/unscheduled.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +==Unscheduled / post-hoc / one-off relicensing== + +This is probably properly outside the scope of this research, but people +often suggest things like these as examples when asked for projects whose +open source publication was "delayed". + +* Netscape Navigator +* Blender +* StarOffice +* Qt + +... and probably dozens, if not hundreds, of codebases that were released +after companies that were developing them shut down. + +Maybe more ambiguous cases: + +* Games from id software (routinely released/relicensed after the end of + their main commercial viability, but not on a schedule and not with a + public commitment to do so?) -- GitLab