Re: New license review

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Bastien ROUCARIES writes ("New license review"):
> May I ask a review about this license (http://lillicense.org/v1.html,
> verbatim below)

Ie, this one:

> Any modification to the software submitted to the authors may be
> incorporated into the software under the terms of this license.

I think this is untroublesome.  It is saying that _if_ modifications
are submitted to the upstream (impliedly, by the authors of the
modifications), the upstreams are granted permission to redistribute.

There is no obligation on a patch author to submit, so the licence
condition is no problem.

It looks like an attempt to deal with the "patches submitted with no
signed-off-by" problem.

I assume you are looking at some actual software you think is released
under this licence.  There may be other problems with that specific
software, of course, so the answer I am giving is necesssarily
abstract.

Ian.