Thanks Michael, -- Original Message -- From: RA Stehmann [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 07:07 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate "Compliance Costs"
[ ... ] All licenses with a copyleft, even with the weakest, force developers into compliance (but never users). A developer has to find out in all cases, whether he or she could satisfy the copyleft clause and - if applicable - in what way she or he can do it. <orcmid> I think every open-source license has compliance conditions, even it if is only the necessity of preserving notices and perhaps providing attribution to the original source. Also, many releases, under any kind of license, may have dependencies and components under different licenses. So attention is always required. And yes, then the developer must determine what is to be done about all of that. And for a firm, there is the need for legal advice. </orcmid> A problem as well is, that there are too many free software licenses. Nevertheless I'm a "fan boy" of a powerful copyleft. Freedom is necessarily stressful. Kind regards Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
