Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-03 Thread Matija Šuklje
On Thursday 03 of March 2011 03:49:47 Norbert Preining wrote: On Mi, 02 Mär 2011, Martin Schröder wrote: *On topic* I'd also _very_ much like to see what's up with ConTeXt licensing. From what it seems it looks like TeX Live is relicensing ConTeXt in its ??? How do you come to that

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 22:37, Joseph Wright wrote: Hello all, A question came up recently on the tex.sx site about ConTeXt licensing: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12431/using-context-commercially I really like the particular answer pointing to bugroff licence:

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Matija Šuklje
On Wednesday 02 of March 2011 11:30:03 Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 22:37, Joseph Wright wrote: Hello all, A question came up recently on the tex.sx site about ConTeXt licensing: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12431/using-context-commercially I really like

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Martin Schröder
2011/3/2 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com: I really like the particular answer pointing to bugroff licence:    http://www.reocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/5947/bugroff.html It's a nice joke, but for practical purposes a one-clause BSD license allows the same freedoms, but is legally clear.

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 11:41:58AM +0100, Martin Schröder wrote: 2011/3/2 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com: I really like the particular answer pointing to bugroff licence:    http://www.reocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/5947/bugroff.html It's a nice joke, but for practical purposes a

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Martin Schröder
2011/3/2 Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org: I was about to say that, though I'm pro strong copyleft (AKA GPL when fits) myself, though I highly doubt, for practical reasons ;), that any one can take a BSD licensed ConTeXt and make a closed source derivative with any substantial improvement.

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, On 03/02/11 11:41, Martin Schröder wrote: It's a nice joke, but for practical purposes a one-clause BSD license allows the same freedoms, but is legally clear. Same for me, but in collaborative works, that is usually not doable. Once a single line of a project is GPL-ed, all of it has to

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 12:08:35PM +0100, Martin Schröder wrote: 2011/3/2 Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org: I was about to say that, though I'm pro strong copyleft (AKA GPL when fits) myself, though I highly doubt, for practical reasons ;), that any one can take a BSD licensed ConTeXt and

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:40, Matija Šuklje wrote: *On topic* I'd also _very_ much like to see what's up with ConTeXt licensing. From what it seems it looks like TeX Live is relicensing ConTeXt in its distribution. And both helping the Gentoo Licensing team and being Deputy Legal Coordinator

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Hans Hagen
On 2-3-2011 12:10, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi, On 03/02/11 11:41, Martin Schröder wrote: It's a nice joke, but for practical purposes a one-clause BSD license allows the same freedoms, but is legally clear. Same for me, but in collaborative works, that is usually not doable. Once a single

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mi, 02 Mär 2011, Martin Schröder wrote: *On topic* I'd also _very_ much like to see what's up with ConTeXt licensing. From what it seems it looks like TeX Live is relicensing ConTeXt in its ??? How do you come to that conclusion? TeX Live is *NOT* relicensing *anything*. THe REDAME and

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-01 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Joseph Wright wrote: Hello all, A question came up recently on the tex.sx site about ConTeXt licensing: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12431/using-context-commercially I have a feeling I've seen something similar elsewhere recently, but cannot be sure where.

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-01 Thread Martin Schröder
2011/3/1 Joseph Wright joseph.wri...@morningstar2.co.uk: This question seems to require an 'official' response, as things do seem a little confusing (at least to me). I'm happy to post something as a You won't get a more official response than

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-01 Thread Miguel Queiros
You won't get a more official response than http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mreadme.pdf . . . and don’t bother discussing licence issues and related things with us for the mere sake of discussing licence stuff. If someone wants to use ConTeXt commercially I advise her to

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-01 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On 1 mrt. 2011, at 22:37, Joseph Wright joseph.wri...@morningstar2.co.uk wrote: Hello all, A question came up recently on the tex.sx site about ConTeXt licensing: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12431/using-context-commercially I have a feeling I've seen something similar