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Would you consider dual-licensing this under a FOSS license like the AGPLv3? That's strong enough copyleft that I think you'll be safe from what you're trying to avoid with your current nonstandard license.

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Done, the noisysockets CLI is now available under the AGPLv3 (and NSSL-1.0), pick the license of your choosing with no legal ambiguity. If it turns out the FSL-1.1, and by virtue of being a derivative the NSSL-1.0 is legally sound, after four years the code will be available under the MPL-2.0.

But you don't have to trust me, the AGPLv3 starts immediately.

I'll update the source headers in the following days.

Thanks!

That's actually a really good suggestion, the main reason for using a time limited source available license was that I didn't want to impose a viral copyleft on everyone and lock up the code forever.

The custom license is a pretty basic derivative of the FSL-1.1 with MPL-2.0 instead of Apache (for a weak copyleft), I think I might keep the custom license in place (I'll make the very minimal changes from the stock FSL-1.1 clear).

But adding an AGPLv3 license for those with ambiguity concerns is totally okay with me (it's ultimately more restrictive than the source available license in a lot of ways).

Thank you for the great suggestion.

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