Hello, Marc Thanks for your reply! Sorry for so long delay, my mail filter unexpected archived this thread, my bad.
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Marc Whipple <mwhip...@itsgames.com> wrote: > Without getting too far into your actual term suggestions, you seem to be > trying to control who can benefit from your license based on who they are > (nimble startup versus evil monopoly) not on what they do with the licensed > material. You're trying to get at it in a putatively user-neutral way, but > you come right out front and say you're trying to control market outcomes > with it. Without speaking for anybody but myself, I tried to get a "you can > do X but not Y for Z time period with the licensed material if you meet the > other requirements" and it got shot down. It got shot down with the nicest > rejection notice I've ever gotten, but the message was clear. I don't see > this general line of attack working: to the extent it will fit into the open > source guidelines, it will not do what you want, and to the extent it does > what you want, it will not fit into the open source guidelines. > > While I am a lawyer, this is not legal advice, and I do not speak for or > represent any other member of the open source community. It's entirely > possible I'm wrong, and if so, I look forward to having my error pointed out > to me. As a programmer without strong law background knowledge, it is difficult for me to push my idea further at this time, but I am still looking forward if there is somebody (either myself or others) will discuss it further someday. I believe I'll come back someday ;-) Anyway, thank you very much, hopefully next time I'll be more serious to push this idea. -- Regards, Qian Hong - Sent from Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com/ _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
