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Delayed Open Source Publication -- Report
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Karl Fogel
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Add footnote with BUSL antecedents
Thanks to Chad Whitacre for pointing these out.
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title: "Delayed Open Source Publication:\\\\A Survey of Historical and Current Practices"
date:
30 Nov 2023
date:
TBD (after 2023-11-30 publication of v1)
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%% extends "report.ltx"
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@@ -497,7 +497,17 @@ The Business Source License (BUSL; sometimes ``BSL''\footnote{Most
originally written in 2016 by MariaDB for its MaxScale project. The
current version of BUSL, 1.1, was released in 2017 and first used for
MaxScale 2.1.0.\footnote{See
\otsurl{https://mariadb.com/resources/blog/releasing-bsl-1-1/}.}
\otsurl{https://mariadb.com/resources/blog/releasing-bsl-1-1/}.
There is at least one earlier proposal of the concept: the ``Open
Source Eventually License'', described in 2016 (see
\otsurl{https://github.com/ftrotter/OSE/tree/a360875170b4a9818e3a4691beced81d7d5f13a8}).
It is fundamentally the same idea as BUSL, but precedes the BUSL by
at least a few months. A more tenuous antecedant comes from Richard
Stallman, in
\otsurl{https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/netscape-npl.html}, in the
section ``Not all users are equal'', which proposes that the harms
of asymmetrical licensing could be reduced by putting a time limit
on the asymmetry.}
BUSL requires a licensor to specify a ``Change Date'' and a ``Change
License''. On the Change Date, which is some time in the future, the
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