Re: custom license (package: bwctl)

2012-05-02 Thread Raoul Borenius
Dear list members, a new bwctl version has been released under the Apache 2 license. A lot of source files do still contain the old license and I do not know what to do about that. Can the source files be left unchanged because there is a LICENSE file in the root directory of the source tar

Re: custom license (package: bwctl)

2012-05-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Raoul Borenius wrote: a new bwctl version has been released under the Apache 2 license. A lot of source files do still contain the old license and I do not know what to do about that. I would suggest asking upstream to fix those source files. -- bye, pabs

Re: custom license (package: bwctl)

2012-04-02 Thread Raoul Borenius
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 07:28:37PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:40:01 +0200 Raoul Borenius wrote: [...] An update on this one: Upstream is apparently preparing a new release which will be released under the apache license. Which version of the Apache License?

Re: custom license (package: bwctl)

2012-03-30 Thread Raoul Borenius
Dear list, On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 09:08:40AM +0100, Raoul Borenius wrote: On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 05:47:45PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: I reiterate the recommendation (for Raoul or any other volunteer) to get in touch with upstream and to try and persuade them to switch to a

Re: custom license (package: bwctl)

2012-03-30 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:40:01 +0200 Raoul Borenius wrote: [...] An update on this one: Upstream is apparently preparing a new release which will be released under the apache license. Which version of the Apache License? I hope it's the Apache License version 2.0

Re: custom license (package: bwctl)

2012-02-07 Thread Raoul Borenius
On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 05:47:45PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: I reiterate the recommendation (for Raoul or any other volunteer) to get in touch with upstream and to try and persuade them to switch to a well-known and widely-used Free Software license, such as the 3-clause BSD license:

Re: custom license (package: bwctl)

2012-02-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 09:20:19AM -0500, Clark C. Evans a écrit : | without contemporaneously requiring end users to enter into | a separate written license agreement for such enhancements Ok. So, this language iss the one under debate I guess. Simply putting on a license text isn't

Re: custom license (package: bwctl)

2012-02-07 Thread Clark C. Evans
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012, at 05:27 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 09:20:19AM -0500, Clark C. Evans a écrit : | without contemporaneously requiring end users to enter into | a separate written license agreement for such enhancements Ok. So, this language iss the one

Re: custom license (package: bwctl)

2012-02-04 Thread Clark C. Evans
Charles, I'm not a lawyer, but this looks like a one-sided consortium assignment agreement disquised as a BSD license. It's not even remotely free software. Let's read the license. | You are under no obligation whatsoever to provide any | enhancements to Internet2 or its contributors.

Re: custom license (package: bwctl)

2012-02-04 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 09:23:29 +0900 Charles Plessy wrote: Le Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 05:16:26PM +0100, Raoul Borenius a écrit : [...] Dear Raoul, these terms have been discussed earlier on this list, and many commenters quiestionned its freeness. Thank you for searching the archives, Charles: I

custom license (package: bwctl)

2012-02-03 Thread Raoul Borenius
Dear debian-legal readers, upstream (http://www.internet2.edu/performance/bwctl/license.html) provides the following custom license in their software that I'd like to see in Debian: Redistribution and use in source

Re: custom license (package: bwctl)

2012-02-03 Thread Clark C. Evans
Raoul, This looks like a non-symmetric copyleft-like attempt: then you thereby grant Internet2, its contributors, and its members for that reason, I don't think it's free Clark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: custom license (package: bwctl)

2012-02-03 Thread Walter Landry
Clark C. Evans c...@clarkevans.com wrote: Raoul, This looks like a non-symmetric copyleft-like attempt: then you thereby grant Internet2, its contributors, and its members for that reason, I don't think it's free I am not so sure. It is not required to give them back the changes. It is

Re: custom license (package: bwctl)

2012-02-03 Thread Clark C. Evans
I am not so sure. It is not required to give them back the changes. Although you are not required to provide them your enhancements, you are required to provide Internet2 licensing rights that are not granted to others should you wish to make the source code for your derivative work generally

Re: custom license (package: bwctl)

2012-02-03 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:56:47 -0800 (PST) Walter Landry wrote: Clark C. Evans c...@clarkevans.com wrote: Raoul, This looks like a non-symmetric copyleft-like attempt: then you thereby grant Internet2, its contributors, and its members for that reason, I don't think it's free I

Re: custom license (package: bwctl)

2012-02-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 05:16:26PM +0100, Raoul Borenius a écrit : You are under no obligation whatsoever to provide any enhancements to Internet2, or its contributors. If you choose to provide your enhancements, or if you choose to otherwise publish or distribute your enhancement, in