On Friday, 02 December 2005, at 09:13:20 (+0900), Carsten Haitzler wrote: > thing is - WE have a VARIANT of BSD+Advertising. if you read COPYING-PLAIN it > allows explicitly the person to meet the advertising clause by: > > 1. shipping source of the code + mods (but not what links to it - so it acts > as > LGPL) OR > 2. emailing the AUTHORS expressly letting them know it is being used (thus the > authors can advertise themselves "hey - product X uses our stuff!") OR > 3. the usual BSD advertising clause :)
Funny thing. Entrance doesn't *have* COPYING-PLAIN. > as I was the one who wrote up the license BASED on the BSD (very > closely) with some more liberal changes, I am explicitly expressing > intention and meaning. Of course, since you've modified the license and no lawyer has examined it to make sure it's legally sound and enforceable, that opens quite an interesting can of worms. There's a reason people use well-established licenses. > that's BECAUSE there is a CLAUSE in their license that we do not > have. i quote: No, it's because they have a common law trademark on the name, just like you have on Enlightenment. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Time to be all the things that you dreamed of. Time to see if your fairy tale comes true. Time to see there's a shoulder you can lean on. Time to be, 'cause now it's time for you." -- The Tories, Theme from "Jesse" ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
