# BOSL or MIT - Orchard **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [April 29, 2022, 10:24pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/bosl-or-mit-orchard/41439 "2022-04-29T22:24:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 125
**Author:** ![GGuy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/gguy/32/19036_2.png) [@GGuy](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/GGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2022, 10:49pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/bosl-or-mit-orchard/41439/125 "2022-05-08T22:49:13Z")
> [@zooko](#): > > Now there’s an important nuance here, which is that we don’t want to allow source-code-forkers to be able to use Orchard for free, only chain-forkers! > [@zooko](#): > > So, I’m going to ask our lawyers how to craft a blanket exception which gives all users the necessary legal permissions to create their own Future Friendly Fork of the Zcash blockchain, meaning that all current ZEC holders before the fork become holders of the new coin, in the same proportions, and the same proportion of the total monetary base, as before, but not to give blanket permission for source-code-forkers who just want to clone the tech to launch their own blockchain without BOSL’ing their own codebase. Wow. I’d never considered this as a viable clause that could be added to the license. 😬:thinking: --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/bosl-or-mit-orchard/41439)._