Hi,
I am project manager for a scientific s/w dev project, AstroGrid. We are
involved with similar projects worldwide under the banner of an organisation
called IVOA (http://ivoa.net) and I've volunteered to investigate and
deliver an open source license that any of the IVOA member projects,
Roy T. Fielding wrote:
On a side note, since software patent law is applied to the method
of something and not to the particular expression, a patent license
for doing that something remains in force regardless of the software
that is later used to do it. The license is from the owner of the
Arnoud Engelfriet scripsit:
I'm not even sure the license still exists if you take out the
Contribution I made (embodying my patented method) and put
it in some other work.
It's hard to say, certainly. But consider this case: I have patented
a gear, and I give you a patent license to make
On Tuesday, 24 February 2004, Arnoud Engelfriet wrote:
If a company sues for infringement on the basis of a patent
being included in XY, where XY consists of X (non-infringing) and
Y (infringing), then that will be brought up by the defense and
the company will have to claim Y
Tony Linde writes:
The goal is that any of the software we develop can be shared amongst the
partner projects without limitations (save retaining copyright and
contribution notices) AND that any code can be taken, adapted and used by
any commercial concern without restriction (again save
Hi,
could you have a look at the Erlang Public License, which covers
the Open Source version of Ericsson's Erlang language?
I'm just an ordinary Erlang user and would like to know
if it complies with your standards.
They say it is derived from the Mozilla Public License,
but I am not expert
Marc van Woerkom scripsit:
could you have a look at the Erlang Public License, which covers
the Open Source version of Ericsson's Erlang language?
It's absolutely just a variant of the MPL, with a new name, a different
controlling law, and otherwise still as Open Source as ever. No worries.
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