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Bohan Jiang authored
* docs(license): state that free public hosting still needs a commercial license (MUL-5558) Condition 1a's operative sentence restricts providing a hosted service to third parties without qualifying it by commerciality, but clause 1's preamble frames the whole section around commercial use, so a reader can argue that a free public instance escapes (a). A downstream fork asked exactly this question, which is evidence enough that the ambiguity is real. Say it directly: hosting for third parties is restricted whether or not a fee is charged. Free hosting is the substitution risk the condition exists to price, so leaving it to inference is the wrong default. Also state the other half explicitly: publishing a fork's source is not a hosted service and needs no commercial license, but it conveys no hosting right downstream — each operator needs its own. This ports the net content of commit ae73ad1e3 (stranded on the merged PR #6197 branch, whose LICENSE predates #6206) onto the current Multica License structure. Co-authored-by:
multica-agent <github@multica.ai> * docs(license): drop the relicensing implication from the source-distribution bullet (MUL-5558) Review found two defects in the fork-distribution bullet: - "publishing a fork under an open-source license" could be read as permitting the fork to be relicensed as a whole. An OSD-compliant license cannot carry the hosting restriction, so that reading would contradict condition 3(d)'s requirement to deliver the complete Multica License on redistribution. Describe the act (publishing the fork's source) instead of a licensing regime. - "remains subject to conditions (b) and (c)" enumerates too narrowly, implying Part II and condition 3 do not apply. Say "all applicable terms of this Multica License" with an illustrative reference instead. Co-authored-by:
multica-agent <github@multica.ai> --------- Co-authored-by:
Bohan-J <bohan@devv.ai> Co-authored-by:
multica-agent <github@multica.ai>
Bohan Jiang authored* docs(license): state that free public hosting still needs a commercial license (MUL-5558) Condition 1a's operative sentence restricts providing a hosted service to third parties without qualifying it by commerciality, but clause 1's preamble frames the whole section around commercial use, so a reader can argue that a free public instance escapes (a). A downstream fork asked exactly this question, which is evidence enough that the ambiguity is real. Say it directly: hosting for third parties is restricted whether or not a fee is charged. Free hosting is the substitution risk the condition exists to price, so leaving it to inference is the wrong default. Also state the other half explicitly: publishing a fork's source is not a hosted service and needs no commercial license, but it conveys no hosting right downstream — each operator needs its own. This ports the net content of commit ae73ad1e3 (stranded on the merged PR #6197 branch, whose LICENSE predates #6206) onto the current Multica License structure. Co-authored-by:
multica-agent <github@multica.ai> * docs(license): drop the relicensing implication from the source-distribution bullet (MUL-5558) Review found two defects in the fork-distribution bullet: - "publishing a fork under an open-source license" could be read as permitting the fork to be relicensed as a whole. An OSD-compliant license cannot carry the hosting restriction, so that reading would contradict condition 3(d)'s requirement to deliver the complete Multica License on redistribution. Describe the act (publishing the fork's source) instead of a licensing regime. - "remains subject to conditions (b) and (c)" enumerates too narrowly, implying Part II and condition 3 do not apply. Say "all applicable terms of this Multica License" with an illustrative reference instead. Co-authored-by:
multica-agent <github@multica.ai> --------- Co-authored-by:
Bohan-J <bohan@devv.ai> Co-authored-by:
multica-agent <github@multica.ai>
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