Re: [tlug] Timed licenses? (and escrow/smart contracts)

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

Hi Darren,


On Thursday, September 20, 2018 04:49 PM, Darren Cook wrote:
> Thanks Stephen, Edmund. This was mainly curiosity about what options
> there are. It has been something going through my mind recently (new
> approaches when you meet business people who still see open source as
> giving away company value), then something similar got mentioned in
> passing in a meeting the other day.
>
> And if there were existing licenses, I wanted to see how they phrased
> the clause. Or if they used two licenses, one forward-dated.


I know you meant software so I'm not sure if anything I add 
here will help at all...

But some journals appear to have at least a two-tiered 
subscription.  An institute (i.e., university) with the 
higher tier will have access to the journal immediately; 
others with the lower tier won't get access to it until 
after a year has passed.  I know this because, for some 
journals, our institute has the second tier subscription. 
:-(  In some research fields, a year can be a really long 
time...

Still with publishing, some authors choose to release their 
work publicly first on open access preprint repositories 
such as bioRxiv or arXiv.  Journals have to accept this up 
and coming change to their publication model and do accept 
papers that have been previously released publicly, but 
usually with some conditions.  (i.e., that you've declared 
it and that, after all the pretty formatting is done by the 
journal, this final version isn't made public).

I'm not so sure if this works as it seems to be a way for 
authors to "have their cake and eat it".  That is, they get 
their work out ASAP and stake a claim as to when they 
finished it.  They get "free peer review" via their peers on 
Twitter...  And later, when a prestigious journal accepts 
it, they can quote the name of the journal on their 
homepage/CV.  But it's the state of some research fields now 
and I think journals are forced to accept it in order to 
compete with others [for now]?

Ray