From a502187b4bcbe6174e538ec3b3c7ac475e35cca6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Seth Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 21:14:47 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] BUSL does have a GPL-compatibility rule for the Change
License
---
dosp-survey.ltx | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/dosp-survey.ltx b/dosp-survey.ltx
index bbb6b4d..c822e6f 100644
--- a/dosp-survey.ltx
+++ b/dosp-survey.ltx
@@ -447,10 +447,10 @@ License''. On the Change Date, which is some time in the future, the
license of the covered artifact will change to the Change License,
which is an Open Source license.\footnote{The text of the BUSL does
not, strictly speaking, insist that the Change License be an Open
- Source license. In practice, however, the Change License seems to
- always be Open Source, and it is hard to imagine a situation in
- which the complexity of the BUSL would be worthwhile for licensor or
- licensee if the destination license were not Open Source.}
+ Source license, but it does require that an adopter agree
+ ``To specify as the Change License the GPL Version 2.0 or any later version, or a license that is compatible with GPL Version 2.0 or a later version, where `compatible' means that software provided under the Change License can be included in a program with software provided under GPL Version 2.0 or a later version." It's not apparent how a Change
+ License could be GPL-compatible in this sense without also being an
+ Open Source license.}
MariaDB's Change Date for MaxScale is four years after the release of
a specific version, and its Change License is GPLv2.
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