Re: [wg-c] Unofficial report on L.A. meeting

[Milton Mueller <mueller@syr.edu>]

This is simply not true at all. A license can be set, as NSI's is, for a fixed term.
Such a decision is as easily revocable or reversible as if the license was granted to
a non-profit.

Craig and Kent are assuming that a grant is made in perpetuity. It need not be. The
issue of reversibility is completely independent of whether the entity is for-profit
or non-profit. This is particularly obvious in a "testbed."

Kent Crispin wrote:

> Craig Simon made that point:  It is trivial to allow a non-profit
> entity to become for-profit, if, after a period of time we decide
> that would be desirable.  But it is very very difficult to force a
> for-profit to become a non-profit, if we later decide that.  One
> approach is easily undone, the other is not.
>