My initial reaction was the same as John's reaction, but the OSD does not seem to provide clear answers on this. I was inclined to say that the OSD would require no answers to both questions, but as the poster mentioned, the text of the OSD is not that specific.
- Rod Rod Dixon Visiting Assistant Professor of Law Rutgers University Law School - Camden [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cyberspaces.org/dixon/ My papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) are available through the following url: http://papers.ssrn.com/author=240132 ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 5:55 PM Subject: Re: Newbie Question > [EMAIL PROTECTED] scripsit: > > > 1. Is there a license which specifically disallows any forks or extensions > > which would limit the use of a program/package to a particular environment > > or OS? If not forks, then extensions only; if not environments, then OS. > > Frankly, such a thing sounds perverse. It means that the program cannot be > adapted for a specific OS/environment, since such an adaptation would > necessarily be limited to that OS/environment. For example, if your program > were written for Linux, it could not be ported to Win32. > > I can't see how such a thing could possibly be consistent with the OSD. > > What evil are you trying to prevent? If you just want to make sure > that the latest'n'greatest version can be adapted to all environments, > just use a strong copyleft like the GPL, and it will never be possible > to write code in the Win32 fork that can't be ported back to the Linux fork. > > -- > XQuery Blueberry DOM John Cowan > Entity parser dot-com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Abstract schemata http://www.reutershealth.com > XPointer errata http://www.ccil.org/~cowan > Infoset Unicode BOM --Richard Tobin > -- > license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3 -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
