Earlier this year, arguments and debates raged about whether the open source model was doomed to fail in the 21st century economics of Software As A Service (SAAS). One thread of these discussions centered around the creation of a new type of license that could effectively preserve source code availability and author attribution while denying licensees some of the freedoms enjoyed by the authors, particularly the freedom to present a user interface distinct from so-called attribution.
I have weighed in on the question raised by so-called attribution licenses on license-discuss@opensource.org, but I have always been meaning to write down some thoughts on the flipside of those arguments, namely, how one existing license has brilliantly and effectively protected the three parties to the license--the authors, the users, and other developers--in spite of everything.
Full story : http://www.opensource.org/node/135Follow up :
1 - Suchna
2 - Lampblog
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