There’s some press chatter around about “express” licenses. Here and here and here.
We were using this sort of approach a decade ago to manage non-exclusive licensing programs for specific projects. The idea is, for a given technology base, use a stable agreement so everyone gets reasonable, non-discriminatory access to what you have. Open source licenses such as the BSD and GPL are obvious examples. Our variations allowed recipients to negotiate from the standard agreement 1) to meet their local conditions 2) to offer something back to the project and 3) to improve the standard relationship for everyone. A take-it-or-leave-it approach doesn’t do this, and is only more efficient in that you don’t care about anticipating early relationships and only will deal with folks willing to take what you are offering.
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Author: Gerry Barnett
