Alain: If this step is as simple as you suggest...
eric: was refering to the common law trademark protection, which is of course
dependant upon use and diffusion (and thus should be plastered on an internet
site, later once decided upon)
Eric: Associates would be able to come and go as they
Rob Cozens: I also formed a for-profit corporation
this year ... I am on the Board of Directors of a
non-profit corporation, and might be able to get some
insight from original board members or the
foundation's account or attorney.
Eric: That changes things slightly. _IF_ (and it is a _really
Rob Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A colleague of mine is an accountant that has
recently incorporated his business. He knows all of
the ins and outs of the process. And he would be
willing to help me if I asked him.
Alain, et al:
I also formed a for-profit corporation this year. But, at
Major premise: I am not the lawyer of any individual or this group, as I am
not licensed to practice law.
I have to remind you of that because in this posting I am going to be
discussing possible relations/liability issues between MC, Scott Raney, and
the persons discussing establishing an
Does everyone agree that the Copyright Holder
to the software that we are in the process of naming
will be our partnership?
I can't speak for everyone; but it makes sense to me.
Rob Cozens, CCW
http://www.serendipitysoftware.com/who.html
"And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three;
Who are
At 12:29 PM -0800 on 11/10/99, Alain Farmer wrote:
Alain: We may want to put restrictions on the uses of
OpenKard and its derivatives, though. For example, do
we allow the hypothetical company that we will name
MicroSloth to make just enough modifications to our
source code (e.g. a fork) and
At 7:14 PM -0800 on 11/11/99, Alain Farmer wrote:
Eric: All persons (associates and partners) would have
to agree to change the partnership agreement.
Alain: Shouldn't this be Partners-Only ?
I agree -- partners only. Otherwise some nitwit who just joined the list to
spam it could claim we
At 2:11 AM -0700 on 11/12/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alain Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anthony: Would it be possible to write in that no one
may form a contract on behalf of the partnership ...
Eric: Yes, _but a third party who would be unaware of this could claim -
justifiably - that he
Alain: We may want to put restrictions on the uses
of OpenKard and its derivatives, though. For
example,
do we allow the hypothetical company that we will
name
MicroSloth to make just enough modifications to our
source code (e.g. a fork) and scoop our entire
effort, and make a bundle with
Someone: Alain, I wasn't aware that PNG was a vector
format. Are you sure?
Alain: No.
Someone: Do you know where I can read the specs.
Anthony: I think they are on the W3C's page somewhere.
Alain: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-png.html
Someone: Since editing will take place in RAM anyway,
the
Michael Fair: Using the GCC underlying architecture
will create licensing problems unless we reimplement
the whole shebang.
Alain: We must avoid licencing problems.
What are they in this case?
Anthony: The GPL 'virus'. That is, we'd have to use
the GPL.
Alain: To be considered GPL we
Anthony: Or are you proposing an intermediary "OC byte
code"? Actually, I might be switching to something
like that -- the parser is giving me nightmares as it
is now. And it would allow a lot of stuff like that.
Micheal Fair: That is exactly what I am proposing and
exactly why I am proposing
Anthony: I'd like to take a moment to applaud Alain's
use of the message archive. Most of this was resolved
before, and perhaps we should look at that. We
exchanged many messages before what to do about
licencing, authoring, etc. and it's all in the
archive.
Alain: I was merely cleaning up my
Bug Tracker's polling is done. So is it's bug reporting. The only thing not
implemented is editing a volunteer profile -- that is, changing your
password.
Visit it at:
http://cgibin.erols.com/derobert/cgi-bin/bug.pl
Tell me any problems you come up with. Play around with it. Add a few
At 3:32 PM -0800 on 11/12/99, Alain Farmer wrote:
Anthony: GraphicsConvert's best PNG encoding can take
a couple of minutes. It can be important.
Alain: Is this a one-shot deal? Or does this encoding
have to happen every time, in real-time?
It has to happen every time a PNG is converted from
At 3:52 PM -0800 on 11/12/99, Alain Farmer wrote:
Michael Fair: Using the GCC underlying architecture
will create licensing problems unless we reimplement
the whole shebang.
Alain: We must avoid licencing problems.
What are they in this case?
Anthony: The GPL 'virus'. That is, we'd have
At 6:31 PM -0800 on 11/12/99, Alain Farmer wrote:
Alain: That's ok. We are open source. Our wares are
not for sale. They are made available to everyone, for
free. The sale of OpenKard would indeed require
unanimity because it goes against everything this
partnership supposedly stands for.
Umm?
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm sorry to have to be objective, but Scott is right. There is a (miniscule)
potential liability, and given the 'deep pockets' mentality of lawyers
(starting to understand why I don't want to practice?) he's right: a shark
(read parasitical
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