Halo 2 BOSL Impact on Zcash Forks

[Shawn]

BOSL or MIT - Orchard

(Disclaimer: I am not a copyright lawyer.) No. BOSL is basically equivalent to GPL, except for one specific difference (that makes it mutually incompatible with GPL unless specific exceptions are present): Derivative Works (i.e. code that incorporates, extends, or changes any BOSL-licensed code) may be licensed as non-BOSL for up to 12 months from first being used publicly, after which they become BOSL-licensed. Put another way: GPL is a strong copy-left license. If any GPL code ends up as …