The Idea of Dynamic Licensing

Dr. Nikolai Bezroukov has written a great paper about Dynamic Licensing and how it relates to copyright issues. Here is the abstract for his paper. The whole paper is linked below.

“In the third part of the paper we will approach the software development as a process similar to biologic with stages of childhood, adolescence, maturity, and subsequent decline and death. This approach presuppose that the license should be viewed not as a static (casted in iron) document, but is an dynamic algorithm that perform balancing of the requirements of various user groups on different stages of development by activating different modules on each of such stage. The paper provides a software licensing taxonomy based on rights of major user subgroups ( author, user, contributors and developers of derivative products) that compose a virtual multidirectional space and that, like for spaceship entering atmosphere, there is a trajectory of the product in this space; some trajectories are better for the survival of the crew. The author stresses the value of algorithmic simplicity of the license as an important factor of success of the mature free/open software product. “

Full Article Here

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