Re: Dual licensing

2004-06-12 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Marius Amado Alves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm sorry, Marius, I'm confused. How can be it open source, and yet if used commercially, the authors get a cut? The thing is, we don't see how that hurts the basic tenets of the free software philosophy. Please read:

Re: Dual licensing

2004-06-12 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Marius Amado Alves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm sorry, Marius, I'm confused. How can be it open source, and yet if used commercially, the authors get a cut? The thing is, we don't see how that hurts the basic tenets of the free software philosophy. Please read:

Re: Dual licensing

2004-06-12 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Stephen C. North [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Free software is about freedom (liberty) for the end user. It's not about control by the author (except in specific limited respects). If you want control by the author, then you have a different philosophy. Freedom is about

Re: Dual licensing

2004-06-08 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Marius Amado Alves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm only trying to add to that the requirement that a part of any generated revenue is payed to the authors (if they want). This should be completely orthogonal to the open source requirements, and hence unhurtful of them, but I'm having technical

Re: Dual licensing

2004-06-08 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Marius Amado Alves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You said provided free of charge. The GPL says licensed free of charge. See the difference? Not really, but duh to myself. I should know better. Maybe it will come to me in my sleep. Thanks. (Myself) It didn't come in my sleep.

Re: Dual licensing

2004-06-07 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Marius Amado Alves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Again on words. It seems what you sell is not open after all, because you have not contributed back yet. Your selling the future. That's a fine model, but again, what you sell, *when* you sell it, is not open. Your first criticism was that it was

Re: Dual licensing

2004-06-07 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Marius Amado Alves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Your first criticism was that it was not possible to sell open source software because somebody could undercut you. Now your criticism is that what we are selling is not publically available except through us (or our customers if they choose

Re: Dual licensing

2004-06-07 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Marius Amado Alves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think the open source way requires public availability, technically, for bazaar-like development to take place. But I'll have to sleep on this. Let's not confuse bazaar-like development with open source software. Remember that The Cathedral and

Re: Dual licensing

2004-06-07 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Marius Amado Alves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is clear to me that OSD #6 does not prohibit direct sale of the software. I've never heard anybody seriously claim otherwise. It's another thing. By clause 6, you must either sell to all recipients, or give away to all recipients. I think

Re: Dual licensing

2004-06-07 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Marius Amado Alves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Certainly neither the GPL nor the BSD license prohibit sale of the software. Then they should stop saying because this software is provided free of charge... Neither license says that. Duh? NO WARRANTY 11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS

Re: Dual licensing

2004-06-06 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Marius Amado Alves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My employer sells commercial open source software. It fully complies with the OSD--in fact, it is under the BSD license. Do you really sell the software (not support, not buy-out)? Yes, we sell the software. It comes with installation support,

Re: Dual licensing

2004-06-06 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Marius Amado Alves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For the 10th time someone is trying to say that you can sell open source software. Some people including myself sustain that you can't, in practice. (That is, you can charge, and even sell a couple of copies, but you'll be out of business the

Re: Dual licensing

2004-06-06 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. [Ian] You sell your software which is BSD-licensed. Do you give out free or evaluation copies under a different license, or perhaps crippled binary versions? What kind of prices do you charge, so that we have some idea of the barrier individuals would have to

Re: Dual licensing

2004-06-05 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Marius Amado Alves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rick Moen (and others) suggest the term open source be used only as defined by OSI. Maybe that would be a good thing, and as I said and pointed out (and Rick wasn't listening) I never say just open source tout court to mean something different, but

Re: Submitting a new license or using the current ones

2004-05-06 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Guilherme C. Hazan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Really? I thought that open-source meaned that the guy can see and change the source, but not related to distribution. So, all OSI approved licenses state that the distribution is completely free? No. All OSI approved licenses state that if you

Re: Submitting a new license or using the current ones

2004-05-06 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Alex Rousskov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sources which may not be distributed are not open source. I strongly suggest that you not use that term. ... on this mailing list which is OSI-specific and uses OSI-specific terminology. I personally think it is to everyone's advantage if the term

Re: Why open-source means free to distribute?

2004-05-06 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Guilherme C. Hazan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What we need to do to place the logo at our site? Just get it and put in the html? The logo is trademarked by the Open Source Initiative. It may only be used with their permission. The permission required is described here:

Re: Question regarding modules/pluggins license?

2004-03-01 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Larry Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I currently work on an open source project that uses the GPL for a license. The project is written in PHP and uses modules/pluggins. The project has an API that other developers can use to create these modules/pluggins so they work within the framework

Re: Question regarding modules/pluggins license?

2004-03-01 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Tony Linde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can writing to an API force you to conform to that product's license? If that was the case, a Java app running on Windows would be illegal and on Linux would have to be GPLed. A number of people have argued that if the only implementation of an API is

Re: Question regarding modules/pluggins license?

2004-03-01 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ian Lance Taylor wrote: [...] A number of people have argued that if the only implementation of an API is under the GPL, and if the API is not independently described, nor managed by a standards organization, then writing to that API

Re: Question regarding modules/pluggins license?

2004-03-01 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/linux/docs/licensing.txt http://google.com/groups?threadm=YPep.5Y5.21%40gated-at.bofh.it (Read the entire thread -- this is real fun ;-) ) I am already quite familiar with this discussion. In your initial

Re: Licenses and subterfuge

2004-02-25 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Chris F Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am not a lawyer. Moreover, your questions relate to the issue of when one piece of software is a derivative work of another, which is not clearly settled. If one has provided a version of readline that is not GPL, can one argue that the intent of the

Re: License Committee report

2004-02-18 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Alex Rousskov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While I agree with the goals of the license author, he's putting restrictions on the use of the software, and restrictions on use are not allowed. He points to other licenses which restrict some modifications, but they do it at redistribution time,

Re: For Approval: NASA Open Source Agreement Version 1.1

2004-02-13 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Richard Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm just saying that a stance that NASA, a US government agency with deep pockets, should remove imdenification wording is a haneous idea. And in general bashing the license on non-licensing issues doesn't do any good. It actually hurts open

Re: Initial Developer's Public License

2004-02-13 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Cowan wrote: [...] Native executables aren't simply collections, however; linkers break up and redistribute the individual object files into different regions of the executable. Do you seriously believe that such details/linking

Re: Inappropriate postings from non-lawyers

2004-02-13 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Ian Lance Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The arguments that the GPL is invalid are totally bogus. I need to qualify that by saying that I'm referring to the arguments which have appeared recently on the license-discuss list. There are other theories that the GPL, while valid, does not have

Re: Initial Developer's Public License

2004-02-13 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ian Lance Taylor wrote: [...] I think it is a pretty big stretch to say that static linking does not produce a derivative work of the objects included in the link. ... With all those $$ legal funds to protect open source of lately, I

Re: For Approval: NASA Open Source Agreement Version 1.1

2004-02-12 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Richard Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Such provisions are not allowed in an open source license. Reporting requirements are viewed as unreasonable limitations on the rights of licensees to do anything they want internally with open source Biggest problem of all here - who in all of

Re: For Approval: Simple Permissive License

2004-02-08 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Zooko O'Whielacronx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Simple Permissive License is most similar to The MIT License. The MIT License does not suffice for my needs because it is too long and complex for the programmers that I work with to read. Personally, I recommend that you tell your

Understanding Open Source Software - by Red Hat's Mark Webbink, Esq.

2004-01-04 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
For those who didn't see it on Slashdot, here is a good discussion of open source/free software licenses, from Mark Webbink, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Red Hat. He is a lawyer, and this article is written for lawyers, but is clear and straightforward.

Re: Why?

2003-12-29 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Jan Dockx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why do organizations that release software under a permissive, non-copyleft license, use a license in the first place? What is the difference between BSD and public domain? I've read elsewhere that it's actually not clear how to release code in the public

Re: Clarification of GPL

2003-12-16 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Ben Reser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem here is exactly that. Assignment is a double edged sword. Assignment makes it easier for one individual to litigate against people who violate the license (which means violating the copyright). But it also permits the assignee to change the

Re: Which License should I pick?

2003-12-09 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hadn't considered the issue of ownership of copyright for contributed code. Is it common for open source projects to stipulate that contributors either transfer copyright or agree to allow the owner to change the license? It's fairly common, though

Re: mysql

2003-11-22 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Marius Amado Alves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I say 'viral' I do so without any prejudice whatsoever. The word itself is somewhat prejudicial, though, as rather few people have positive connotations for the word ``virus.'' I think a better word here is ``sticky.'' The GPL is a sticky

Re: mysql

2003-11-22 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Brian Behlendorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: I think a better word here is ``sticky.'' The GPL is a sticky license; once it is attached to code, it can't be removed. The BSD license is not sticky; it can be removed (or at least the most

Re: OSD#5 needs a patch?

2003-10-09 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By this you mean that you do not see any particular problem with Sean's license being incompatible with the GPL by it's own terms, and that you view his license as being OSD-compliant? Very few people thought that Sean's license was not OSD-compliant. I

Re: OSD#5 needs a patch?

2003-10-09 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lawrence E. Rosen scripsit: § 51(b) All persons within the jurisdiction of this state are free and equal, and no matter what their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, or medical condition are entitled to

Re: OSD#5 needs a patch?

2003-10-09 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The OSD as written today is largely license-neutral, and it concerns me when people want to change the OSD to prefer some licenses over others. Who, for example? If those people aren't on the OSI Board (I'm not, for example), then they only have

Re: OSD#5 needs a patch?

2003-10-09 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe that a license can be OSD-compliant without being OSI-approved. Interesting. Is this because you believe that the OSD is incomplete and that it should disallow more licenses, or is this because you believe that OSI approval should not be

Re: GNU/GPL and Attribution

2003-10-07 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Bobbi Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We are quite comfortable with hosting companies taking this free code and offering it to the web designers/developers that are hosting with them. However, we would like those designers/developers to see an attribution to our company. So my question

Re: For Approval: Open Source Software Alliance License

2003-09-28 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Sean Chittenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Changes made to the BSD code by the authors of the GPL product are changes that are available only under the GPL. Yes, and changes made to the BSD code by the authors of a proprietary product are changes that are only available to the authors

Re: For Approval: Open Source Software Alliance License

2003-09-27 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Sean Chittenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I'm trying to understand is why you say that incorporating BSD code in a proprietary product is a good thing and simulataneously say that incorporating BSD code in a GPL product is a bad thing. Changes made to the BSD code by the authors of

Re: For Approval: Open Source Software Alliance License

2003-09-26 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Sean Chittenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Businesses who create commercial, redistributed products, use (indeed prefer) BSD/MIT licensed software. It would be nice if you could stop using the words ``business'' and ``commercial'' when you really mean ``businesses which use proprietary

Re: For Approval: Open Source Software Alliance License

2003-09-26 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Sean Chittenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why does everyone insist that they're protecting my interests by likening a piece of BSD code that goes closed source as a bad thing or as if it's not what I want? That is precisely what I want people to be able to do! That's a smart business for

Re: For Approval: Open Source Software Alliance License

2003-09-26 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Ernie Prabhakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It sounds to me like Sean really wants to avoid the emergence of a alternative, viable Open Source fork of his project under the GPL. That is, he is less concerned about what happens to the code per se, and more concerned about the -community- being

Re: For Approval: Open Source Software Alliance License

2003-09-25 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Sean Chittenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I won't comment on what other people have already commented on. Let me clarify some vocabulary: people = home user or developer of applications out side of a commercial entity working on a not for sale piece of software.

Re: For Approval: Open Source Software Alliance License

2003-09-25 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Sean Chittenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Businesses using OSSAL software would give the business the ability to create proprietary software, even though the non-core parts are most likely open and available to the public. The same is true of software under the BSD license. Ian --

Re: For Approval: Open Source Software Alliance License

2003-09-25 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Sean Chittenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If the bits are OSSAL, a business can trust on the OSSAL bits always being OSSAL. This would be automatically true by default operation of copyright law, with or without OSSAL clause 6. To reiterate: Licences over other codebases used in

Re: For Approval: Open Source Software Alliance License

2003-09-25 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Sean Chittenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Your arguments about businesses don't make any sense to me since there are certainly a number of businesses happily making money from GPL software. Here is what my version of what I think you are doing. Some, not all. Just to keep the

Re: For Approval: Open Source Software Alliance License

2003-09-25 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Mike Wattier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well..there are those within the community to which the GPL is a hindrance, plain and simple. Sure, I know that. (I've been in the open source business for 13 years now; I really do know something about it. And I do mean business literally, as it's how

Re: For Approval: Open Source Software Alliance License

2003-09-24 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Sean Chittenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The OSSAL is the most similar to the BSD license. This is a derivative license in that it is modeled after the BSD license, however it prevents code or objects from being used by GPL'ed bits. The reason for these addions being that as a language

Re: For Approval: Open Source Software Alliance License

2003-09-24 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Sean Chittenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am not concerned about freedom of development to users/consumers (which is the aim of the GPL), I'm concerned about the freedom of development for businesses. Your terminology is strange to somebody like me, who worked for many years at a business

Re: For Approval: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License

2003-09-18 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Andy Tai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is not your license (made by you). How can you submit other people's license for approval? I don't see anything wrong with doing this. What is your concern? Ian -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3

Re: Commercial Open Source- state of play

2003-09-15 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Tony Butterfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My motivation is in finding an open-source model for software that promotes all the well known and discussed aims of open source but that allows a small independent startup to create a revenue stream. I am working on a provocative short paper

Re: [CNI-(C)] Re: Open Source Licensing

2003-08-27 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Lawrence E. Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Will it be better if you take out the word perpetual and add another section on duration of license something like this: 16. Duration. This license shall be in force until the expiration of copyright in original work or the

Re: commercial application development

2003-06-05 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Miller, Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have searched and searched online for an explanation to this question, so if I have missed a faq that details this please accept my apology and point me in the right direction. Well, there's this, if it helps:

Re: violating a license b4 product release

2003-04-02 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Erik Ostermueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm planning on releasing an open-source product, probably under the GNU license. Must I do anything in particular to insure that I can safely/legally violate the terms of the license PRIOR to the product release? Assuming that you hold the

Re: Licensing Model: open downstream apps or proprietary license

2003-03-28 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Mitchell Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The goals are to be a broadly adopted, high-quality PIM on all platforms, and to ensure that Chandler is always available on an open source basis to those who want it. We also hope to generate a piece of the funding that will be necessary to make

Re: Licensing Model: open downstream apps or proprietary license

2003-03-27 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Mitchell Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Open Source Applications Foundation (http://www.osafoundation.org) is planning the 0.1 release of Chandler (a personal information manager) shortly, hopefully by the end of April. OSAF's plan of record for licensing is to follow the model used by

Re: Optimal license for Java projects ...

2003-03-14 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 13 March 2003 09:32 am, Gunther Schadow wrote: - The problem of the BSD license is that it allows commercial parties to take the source code away and contribute little, and take away the freedom of their customers to use improved

Re: Derivative Work for Software Defined

2003-01-17 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Andre Hedrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However - the issue is not talking about .exe or .com files, but pluggin objects using the well known and publish API of the Linux Kernel. Why do you keep harping on this particular issue? Is anybody telling you that you can not distribute your

Re: Derivative Work for Software Defined

2003-01-15 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
PETERSON,SCOTT K \(HP-USA,ex1\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Assume that there is a standard API defined in a spec. One author writes an application G that conforms to that spec (using the API; I think of this as sitting on top of the API) and offers this under the GPL. A second author writes

Re: Derivative Work for Software Defined

2003-01-15 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
PETERSON,SCOTT K \(HP-USA,ex1\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The only issue is whether G+H is a derived work of G, and that seems obvious. I think there is an additional issue, and one for which the resolution is not necessarily obvious: to what sort of combinations of G and H does the

Re: Derivative Work for Software Defined

2003-01-06 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Lawrence E. Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you don't create a work based upon one or more preexisting works then you have simply not created a derivative work. 17 U.S.C. §101. How in the world does an independently-written piece of software that communicates with another

Re: Derivative Work for Software Defined

2003-01-06 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Andre Hedrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I ship and sell binary only products, so I have an interest in not restricting people. Other than your customers, presumably. Restrictions cut both ways. In what way would a restrict cut both ways here? Binary only products

Re: Derivative Work for Software Defined

2003-01-06 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Lawrence E. Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So what if most of the Linux kernel is loadable modules? Probably Linux is not a derivative work of those loadable modules, but instead a compilation or collective work. The GPL doesn't require you to publish the source code of either of those

Re: Copyright

2002-10-31 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Ken Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GPL advocates want the GPL to become the king of all free software licenses. And if wants to be the king, it will have to go through the fire of legal review in a court. Not really. The GPL relies more on public opinion than it does on the force of law.

Re: Copyright

2002-10-24 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Ken Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The inherent standard in court for copyright is ownership and control. The GPL negates your individual permissions. In addition, you revoke all rights to control distribution. Sure you can say that there is a copyright, but to me its like claiming

Re: Copyright

2002-10-24 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Ken Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lets deal with this one at a time. My first question is this-who does the code belong to once it is GPL'ed? What entity, person, group, troll, whoever owns the code? It belongs to the copyright holder. I've written free software myself. I own the

Re: Static v. Dynamic Linking -- redux

2002-03-16 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Emiliano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russell Nelson wrote: I am totally uneducated in the matters of license legalities, but is it actually illegal to circumvent a license? If the wording of the license allows a particular use, will the court read the letter of the license or

Re: OSD modification regarding what license can require of user

2002-03-15 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Stallman writes: It would be wrong to require publication of modified versions that are used privately, but inviting the public to use a server is not private use. I'm not sure that the GPL-using community is going to agree with you

Re: public domain

2001-11-08 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Rui Miguel Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: whether the GPL is appropriate to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or some other more appropriate mailing list? Disagreed. This is license-discuss. GNU GPL is an OSI recognized license (in fact, the first in the list in the website) I agree that

Re: public domain

2001-11-08 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
DeBug [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I took a look at http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html and read this: If it's posted to Usenet it's in the public domain. False. Nothing modern is in the public domain anymore unless the owner explicitly puts it in the public domain(*). Explicitly,

Re: lesser GPL restrictions

2001-11-06 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
DeBug [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My question is what are the restrictions in lesser GPL ? In other words what is the difference between a) I write software and give it away for free without copyrighting it b) I write software copyright it and issue it under lesser GPL The restrictions in the

Re: YAPL is bad (was: Re: Backlog assistance?)

2001-09-24 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Rob Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on 24/9/01 2:15 pm, John Cowan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob Myers wrote: I agree that this is an offer rather than a directive. But the effect of making the source (ultimately) available to anyone is the same as soon as the license is

Re: copyright discussion

2001-09-11 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
It's common practice to quote part of the e-mail to which you are replying, as I am doing here, in order to maintain some context in the conversation. It is also polite to set your mailer to not send HTML mail to a mailing list such as this one. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Many thanks for

Re: Proposed DanielMD License for Review.

2001-08-28 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Daniel MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The result is that forking in GPLd projects is rare, and reconcilliation has been known to happen. The Alan Cox (ac) Linux kernel series is a persistant, but narrow, fork of Linus's own development. emacs/xemacs is probably the most

Re: License Counseling

2001-08-27 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Greg Herlein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Of course. He just can't [*] call his license either (IMHO) Open Source or Free. Perhaps not Free. Why not open source? You can read, modify, and redistribute the source. The only caveat is that you have to send the author a copy of the

Re: license submission: qmail

2001-06-07 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Brian Behlendorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7 Jun 2001, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: Thus, I submit that either qmail's license be approved as an OSD-conformant license, or OSI consider whether clause #4 needs, er, clarification. It's hard to argue that neither is the case. So you

Re: IBM Public License and Debian Linux..... Not compatible?

2001-05-02 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Carter Bullard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is the thread. Ah. There really aren't any arguments there, just concerns. I suggest that you simply reply as James suggests, pointing out that a nearly identical license was accepted by the OSI, and see what reply you get to that. Ian

Re: Test

2001-05-01 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Brian Behlendorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, given that two messages bounced for a large number of people, I would wager that the problem was actually on the mail server side - a temporarily down DNS server perhaps, or resource problems, or what have you - and since they only affected two

Re: OpenLDAP license

2001-04-11 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
"Ryan S. Dancey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "free software" is software that is licensed to you using terms that prohibit you from imposing a requirement of the payment of a fee on the right of recipients of the software to make copies or redistribute the software. I don't agree. The term

Re: OpenLDAP license

2001-04-09 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
"Ryan S. Dancey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems axiomatic to me that any license seeking to comply with the OSD must have explicit instructions detailing the responsibility of each party to the license (meaning anyone who distributes the software) to make the source available when they

Re: OpenLDAP license

2001-04-09 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
"Ryan S. Dancey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So my question remains: Is the OSD as written too specific regarding its requirement that the source code be commonly and easily available to recipients of the software? I'm not sure I entirely understand the question, but I think the answer is no:

Re: Subscription/Service Fees - OSD Intent

2001-03-29 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
"Lou Grinzo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My solution is for some group of people (like us) to collectively assemble a list of every permutation of activity we can think of involving software--sell it modified/unmodified with/without source, linked/not linked with non-free/open SW, bundled/not

Re: Subscription/Service Fees - OSD Intent

2001-03-29 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
"Smith, Devin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The GNU GPL is particularly difficult to interpret, probably because it was written by a non-lawyer. The GPL was extensively reviewed by the FSF lawyers. I personally have always found the GPL to be clear. The main problem I've seen people have with

Re: Subscription/Service Fees

2001-03-28 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Angelo Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think this mailing list would run much better if people here would try to understand that ther is still demand to ordinyry sell software. Not everynody is in the habit of living from Consulting contracts etc. I think most people on this list

Re: Subscription/Service Fees - OSD Intent

2001-03-28 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Eric Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It may certainly be possible to have a registration fee for Open Source software. I am not denying that. However, until such a time as the registration fee is paid, the software cannot be considered Open Source.

Re: Subscription/Service Fees - OSI Intent

2001-03-28 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
David Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It may or may not be the case that a clause obliging a user to pay a license fee would make a license non-compliant with the OSD. Well, I kind of think it would. But the way to test that is to propose a license which requires a license fee, and to try

Re: Subscription/Service Fees

2001-03-27 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
"Karsten M. Self" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Netscape was able to actively sell into those corporations in a very interesting manner. "Since you already have our products and the license says you are required to pay we suggest you pay us." Support this statement with a citation and/or

Re: What is Copyleft?

2001-02-23 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
"Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M." [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't understand your last sentence, and it sounds as if you might be making an important distinction. I am confused by your reference to linked to static version and "unlinked objects." How could both be occurring with the same library?

Re: What is Copyleft?

2001-02-23 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Dave J Woolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, since glibc is available as a dynamic library, most uses of glibc do not conflict with the LGPL. The only way to conflict would be link against the static version of glibc and distribute the resulting binary without distributing the unlinked

Michael Tiemann joins OSI board

2001-01-25 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Red Hat has announced that Michael Tiemann has joined the OSI board: http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=RHATscript=410layout=-6item_id=147351 I'm glad to hear it. Ian

Re: The Toll Roads of Open Source

2001-01-23 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Angelo Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The term O-P-E-N S-O-U-R-C-E was long n use before the OSI made a public, and now widly accepted definition of it. No, it wasn't. That was the whole point behind choosing the term ``open source.'' It didn't carry any existing freight. See, e.g.,

Re: Document formats (was: To the keepers of the holy grail of Open Source)

2001-01-23 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In any event, I've been tempted to start an information-clearinghouse site listing the leading formats for various types of data files See http://www.wotsit.org/ It's probably not everything you want, but it's a start at what you seem to describing. Ian

Re: IPL as a burden

2001-01-17 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Manfred Schmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is indeed interesting that GPL does not address the matter ofrunning a GPLed program. As others have noted, this is not the case: the GPL does require permission to run the program. From a legal standpoint it might be interesting, if the OSD is

Re: IPL as a burden

2001-01-17 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Manfred Schmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I want to run your program on several different computers, then removing the license information is clearly an improvement for me. With open source programs, you don't get to define what an improvement is. I do. You do have to

Re: Open Source *Game* Programming?

2001-01-17 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And a more philosophical question: If it is against the spirit of open source to require commercial users to buy a license, why is that? I think it is perverse to require me to offer my work as a donation to Microsoft and other game publishers just so I

Re: Misunderstanding of the basics?

2001-01-15 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Ralf Schwoebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ian Lance Taylor wrote: But if you look at http://www.opensource.org/osd.html you will see that there are some sentences which you are ignoring. Specifically, the license must allow modified and derived works. Your license does not allow

Re: IPL as a burden

2001-01-15 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Manfred Schmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As of today, I do not know of Open Source Software, that asks for License Fees. We are the first (to my knowledge) to do so and I think that we will not be the only ones. Our customers did not mind to pay fees for VShop 2.x (closed source) and I do

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