On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Michael MacIsaac <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmm, I'm confused... > > From: http://nodejs.org/download/ > "Node.js is released under the MIT license ..." > > From the MIT license: > "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a > copy > of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to > deal > in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights > to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell > copies of the Software ..." > > From the "View license" page of the IBM DeveloperWorks download: > "*IBM SDK for Node.js* > ... > 3. License Grant > The Program is owned by IBM or an IBM supplier, and is copyrighted and > licensed, not sold. > ... > e. Licensee does not 1) use, copy, modify, or distribute the Program..." > > Hmm ... Does the IBM SDK *not *contain node.js and the license is for the > SDK only? Otherwise it would seem IBM is violating the node.js license. > > -Mike MacIsaac >
>From what I understand of the MIT license, what IBM has done is allowed. The MIT license allows someone, or organization, to take the code and modify it in any way that they want. They may then copyright _their modified code_ and add further restrictions. That is, they can "commercialize" __their__ changes. Which is one reason why I tend to dislike it. OTOH, there are others which argue _for_ this because they feel that the GPL, among others, license is a dis-incentive to people who need to make a living from writing code. What IBM _cannot_ do is stop some one else from taking the _original_ node.js code and making a competing node.js implementation for z/Linux. Or z/OS. Or z/VM CMS. This is just from my reading of the license and what others have said. IANAL. -- There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people! Genghis Khan Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
