On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Kaushik Ghose wrote: > > http://www.flora.ca/russell/drafts/license.html > > great start.
Thanks. > Would you consider doing a "properties table" of the different licenses > you have chosen - as a summary comparison. Once you get to these types of properties, you need to specify specific licenses. To keep it at the vague conceptual level you need to be very generic in what types of properties you can discuss. Thanks for the suggestion, and I will try to do this. I will be wanting to present these to an audience, and charts like this (done in OpenOffice.org of course ;-) make for good visual cues. I posted this now as a possibly useful tool for those who will be on-the-floor presenting there soon (much sooner than me). People will ask what the differences between these licenses are, and just saying "Oh, this one is better" without giving some properties isn't very useful. You also want to strongly avoid having it sound like the Copyleft and non-Copyleft Free Software folks, or the BSD and Linux folks, are always fighting. > license |MS | GNU GPL | FreeBSD | freeware etc. In this, only GNU GPL is a license, the rest are not. Like GNU/Linux (or whatever you want to call it), FreeBSD comes with packages of multiple licenses (Much of it overlaps with software shipped with "Linux"). Microsoft has a huge number of licenses as they change licenses per-package, and sometimes per version of a given package, or even per-customer. Microsoft Shared Source is also much more restrictive of sharing knowledge than any of their binary-only licenses. "Freeware" and "shareware" are concepts (and not always agreed upon concepts) where about all that individual packages have in common on licensing is that they proprietary software where verbatim distribution rights are made more liberal (IE: you can share the binaries, but have no access to the source code, ability to modify, etc). All rights beyond distribution are reserved. --- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> Any 'hardware assist' for communications, whether it be eye-glasses, VCR's, or personal computers, must be under the control of the citizen and not a third party. -- http://www.flora.ca/russell/ -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
