Re: cxhextris licence

1999-07-20 Thread bruce
From: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute, this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee ... and that no fee is charged for further distribution of this software, or any modifications thereof. Agreed, it's not

Re: [PHP4BETA] License concerns

1999-07-20 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Sascha Schumann wrote: There are some concerns expressed in the slashdot discussion forum about the new license scheme. One AC writes --- I'm using PHP3 (and liking it very much), and some of the new PHP4

Re: [PHP4BETA] License concerns

1999-07-20 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Btw I have another concern with the PHP4 licence itself: 4. The PHP Group reserves the right to modify the PHP license at any time and without prior notice, as long as the changes keep the free and open source nature of PHP. does this mean rectroactively changing the

Re: [PHP4BETA] License concerns

1999-07-20 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: That means that it won't be possible to include PHP4 in linux distributions, like Debian. Or at least, not linked against gdbm. Actually that isn't that bad, I wanted to get rid of this gdbm dependency in the .debs for quite a while since it is

Re: [PHP4BETA] License concerns

1999-07-20 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
The KDE licence will be compatible with QPL AFAIK (Knghtbrd worked a lot on this with the KDE guys, hey, help us here, too :)). That doesn't make the QPL compatible with the GPL of gdbm. The QPL and the GPL will never be compatible. I don't really care though. We don't distribute any GPL'ed

Re: [PHP4BETA] License concerns

1999-07-20 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: The KDE licence will be compatible with QPL AFAIK (Knghtbrd worked a lot on this with the KDE guys, hey, help us here, too :)). That doesn't make the QPL compatible with the GPL of gdbm. The QPL and the GPL will never be compatible. I don't

Re: [PHP4BETA] License concerns

1999-07-20 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 07:38 PM 7/20/99 +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote: On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Zeev Suraski wrote: At 05:37 PM 7/20/99 +0200, Sascha Schumann wrote: There are some concerns expressed in the slashdot discussion forum about the new license scheme. One AC writes

Re: [PHP4BETA] License concerns

1999-07-20 Thread bruce
Netscape uses better wording. 6.1. New Versions. Netscape Communications Corporation (``Netscape'') may publish revised and/or new versions of the License from time to time. Each version will be given a distinguishing version number. 6.2. Effect of New Versions.

Re: [PHP4BETA] License concerns

1999-07-20 Thread ryan
VERY well done, Bruce :) *applause* On 20 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Netscape uses better wording. 6.1. New Versions. Netscape Communications Corporation (``Netscape'') may publish revised and/or new versions of the License from time to time. Each version will

Re: [PHP4BETA] License concerns

1999-07-20 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Zeev Suraski wrote: At 07:38 PM 7/20/99 +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote: On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Zeev Suraski wrote: At 05:37 PM 7/20/99 +0200, Sascha Schumann wrote: There are some concerns expressed in the slashdot discussion forum about the new license scheme.

Re: [PHP4BETA] License concerns

1999-07-20 Thread Andi Gutmans
At 09:58 PM 7/20/99 +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote: I've never said that anything you distribute with PHP4 is problematic due to copyrights and licenses. I'm just saying that this license of PHP4 unfortunatelly prevents wider full-featured software distribution, like Debian :( I think you're

Re: [PHP4BETA] License concerns

1999-07-20 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Andi Gutmans wrote: At 09:58 PM 7/20/99 +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote: I've never said that anything you distribute with PHP4 is problematic due to copyrights and licenses. I'm just saying that this license of PHP4 unfortunatelly prevents wider full-featured software

Re: [PHP4BETA] License concerns

1999-07-20 Thread bruce
From: Zeev Suraski [EMAIL PROTECTED] What you're saying is that you may not use GPL'd software in conjunction with non GPL software, from a user's standpoint. That's completely absurd in my opinion. Fixing your license language to be OSD-compliant is a much simpler issue than