🚀 go-pugleaf

   Date: 18 Jan 92 07:26:12 GMT
   From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)

   How many times do I have to post this proposal?
       I own all rights, you can do anything you want with it, if you
       modify my portion then make the changes available to me.
   Details of course have to be worked out.  The question is whether
   the basic concept is more acceptable to commercial vendors and
   to people currently using the GPL.

Ghostscript has a license like that, and it's copylefted.  This
property probably isn't particularly useful when what you've written
is a modification of an existing GPL'd program, but even then it can
some use.

Unfortunately this requires some central authority for the code; the
nice thing about the GPL is that it doesn't require a central
authority which "clears" or otherwise has to handle changes.  Ghost
took care of this by putting ghostscript under the GPL -- so that you
had a choice of methods to use.

So I don't understand why you have to post this proposal (you say)
frequently. 

g

PS: I should add that the FSF would probably not take back changes
with terms like that because it could be unwieldy (think how many
changes they must get!).