open source license with 24 month proprietary clause

Dan Langille dan at langille.org
Sun May 4 05:34:03 PDT 2003


Jeremy wrote:

> Has anyone heard of an open source license where new code based on it can
> be kept proprietary for 24 months?
> 
> Then after the 24 months that code becomes part of the public code base.
> 
> I read a magazine article saying that the BSD license does this 24 month
> innovations claim.

For the record, the BSD license does no such thing.  (I know you know 
that...).

> Time for a letter to the editor ...

Details of the article please...
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Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/



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