Open Source world's Bruce Perens emits draft Post-Open Zero Cost License
"I have done two impossible things, though of course I wasn't the only one behind them," he tells The Register. "The first was getting the world to buy into open source, and the second was convincing the ITU (a UN organization) and the governments of most countries worldwide to give up the Morse Code test for ham radio licenses."
His third gambit – perhaps more correctly characterized as "improbable" – is to develop a license that mitigates the consequences of open source software development, issues he knows only too well as the co-author of the Open Source Definition (OSD) back in 1998.
Twenty-six years on, Perens has published his initial draft of this improbable effort, the Post-Open Zero Cost License. He's been working on it for a while but it's not ready for use yet. He said he'll either have to pay a lawyer or find a qualified volunteer to get the text into shape.
"There are probably terms that won't work at all, and things that would have to be written better to be upheld by a court," he says.
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