diff --git a/work.md b/work.md index 33dc3b17e5f567674916acd5aba5753e71a8984f..8a23155bc341dd85c90c31554ffdd9119270ef7e 100644 --- a/work.md +++ b/work.md @@ -1,3 +1,71 @@ +# 2023-11-03: + +* Mark items in notes.md so we know what remains to be investigated in there. + + Also, organize the items (either rearranging in groups or via + tagging) to make clear which ones are the kind of DOSP we're + interested in, + +* High level organization of report. + + - Start w/ Early History as top-level section: Aladdin + Ghostscript, & why they went to straight-up proprietary + relicensing. + + Point out how Ghostscript was not a database nor a web dev + library -- it wasn't the sort of thing that would raise the more + modern worry of "Hey, my competitors will use my thing for free + *to compete with me*." + + Seth notes that while we do see Company Q expressing displeasure + at competitors picking up Q's stuff and just using it to + directly compete with Q, and we see Q switching to a DOSP + license therefore, it often seems that AGPL was not seriously + considered. Understanding why would be really useful. + + - Then Motivations: today, why are people doing it? + + - What is their business model? + + - What sector are they in? + +* Document similarity between Android ecosystem and video game developer + +* Document that Trolltech agreed to a DOSP fallback for QT contractually + + ...and say we don't know if they actually ever did DOSP. + +* BUSL + + - Has any project ever come out of the gate de novo as BUSL? + Or is it always relicensing an existing open source project? + + QUESTION / THOUGHT: It *might* the pattern for BSL and things like + it is that a project's owners relicense to those only after their + product gets traction under a truly OSS license first -- i.e., use + OSS dynamics to gain attention, usage, and investment/loyalty, and + then use BUSL to centralizedly capture more of the value from that + loyalty than would have been possible if the project had remained + under a from-the-start OSS license. + + - QUESTION: Why did the BUSL'ing of Terraform catch so much more + blowback than other things that Hashicorp BUSL'd? + + - QUESTION: If we wanted to dive deeply on this one, we might want + to get stats on how many contributors jumped ship to the recent + OSS fork of Terraform vs how many stayed (and how many decided to + straddle both projects). + + - OBSERVATION: Hashicorp has a CLA-checker bot that makes sure all + the authors of a PR have signed the CLA (the CLA that presumably + allowed them to relicense contributor's changes). + +* Explain distinction between BUSL and (upcoming) FSL + + FSL is basically a temporary non-compete -- that's its only + proprietary term, and it's an innovation relative to licenses that + have that as a permanent proprietary term. + # 2023-10-30: Seth/Karl meet and discuss next steps * For each project mentioned in notes.md, make sure that we have the