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Re: [tor-bugs] #22685 [Core Tor/Tor]: policy for acceptable licenses from contributors
#22685: policy for acceptable licenses from contributors
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Reporter: catalyst | Owner: nickm
Type: defect | Status:
| needs_review
Priority: Medium | Milestone: Tor:
| 0.3.4.x-final
Component: Core Tor/Tor | Version:
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: 034-triage-20180328, 034-must, | Actual Points:
policy |
Parent ID: #26085 | Points:
Reviewer: | Sponsor:
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Comment (by arma):
I think the parent (#26085) will do what this ticket is wanting.
As for the rationale for why we chose 3-clause bsd: in my opinion there
are two scenarios that free software licenses are helpful for: (1) if
there are no tools that do what you want, and your goal is to maximize the
chances that some tool comes into existence to do what you want, use
3-clause bsd. Whereas (2) if the world already has some tools that do what
you want, and your goal is to maximize the chances that the best one is
free software, use gpl.
Our general outlook for Tor is that we're still in scenario one: our
world's main challenge is that there aren't enough tools for good metadata
security, full stop, rather than that there are some tools for good
metadata security but the best ones aren't free.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22685#comment:10>
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