On Wed, Jul 28, 2021, at 7:59 AM, Ciprian Craciun wrote:
Now, if I were to use copyleft-next, and the (unlikely) opportunity
of
using it in a commercial way would arise, I would be basically
locked-out of my own code, and thus would force me to start from
scratch (which basically means any improvement I could have made to the
open source project would be voided).
Why would you be locked-out of your code?
Any kind of proprietary licensing of copyleft-next code effectively turns
copyleft-next into a permissive license for everyone using that copyleft-next
licensed project. Obviously you as the copyright-holder don't need a
license to use or sell your own code.
And if my above use-case didn't convince, then how about this
other
plausible use-case: say a company has developed an algorithm (say
image compression, etc.) that was included in some proprietary
software; then said company wants to open-source only that algorithm,
but under a copyleft license to still keep it's edge on competitors,
The entire purpose of the clause is to eliminate that "edge on competitors".
If you use copyleft-next on code which you also offer as a proprietary
license -- then copyleft-next becomes permissive to ensure everyone who
legally obtained that code licensed under copyleft-next can compete with
you by making their version also proprietary.
-- Kuno.