Moin
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 20:14:11 -0400
Timothy Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > (1) This Work is licensed under LGPL 2.0. You have the right to use and
> > > modify this Work, as long as you publish your changes to the Work.
> >
> > Not LGPL 2.0 or newer?
>
> Ok, why not. Anyone know what that could entail? Linux is licensed
> only under 2.0. But honestly, I don't care, as long as the GPL
> retains it viral qualities and it and the LGPL retain the requirement
> to publish changes.
>
> I made the change.
It depends what you want. By saying that also newer (L)GPL
variants can be used, you give RMS some power over the
code that you cannot control. This is the reason why
a lot of projects use explicitly only one version of the (L)GPL.
> I was trying to collect patches, modifications, extensions, changes,
> and anything else together and give them all one name by which they
> are referred to later. Should I perhaps refer to them all as
> "changes"?
I would rather use the term "modifications"
> (1) This Work is licensed under LGPL 2.0 or newer. You have the right to
> use and modify this Work, as long as you publish your changes to the Work.
The meaning of "Work" should be clarified. Ie what is it about,
what is included and what not.
There might be also a simple reference to the GPL.
> (2) This Work is also licensed as a proprietary work, all rights
> belonging to Traversal Technology. Traversal Technology may use this
> Work under those terms and has the right to publish, license, and sell
> this Work and derivative works as they see fit. To remove these rights,
> you must remove this clause.
>
> (3) Use of this Work without clause (2) forfeits the right to use any
> trademarks owned by Traversal Technology, the Open Graphics Project, or
> related organizations.
>
> (4) Patches, modifications, and extensions (collectively, "Changes")
> to this Work that are submitted to the Open Graphics Project, the Open
> Graphics Mailing List, directly to Traversal Technology, or to an agent
> thereof must be SIGNED by the author of said Change, granting
> Traversal Technology "rights to use" under clause (2), as well as
> clause (1).
> Unsigned Changes will be ignored.
> (5) Changes committed directly to an officially recognized source code
> repository are signed implicitly. Those who have write access to such
> a repository and who commit Changes to that repository grant rights to
> Traversal Technology under clause (2), as well as clause (1), by virtue
> of having write access and choosing to submit Changes.
>
> (6) It is the responsibility of the submitter of a Change to ensure that
> they have the right to do so and that they have necessary permissions
> from any other contributors or third parties.
Here it is not exactly clear what "submitter" means, maybe this
should be changed to something like "submitter of a modification
to the OpenGraphics Project"
> (7) Traversal Technology does not require an exclusive license to your
> work. You retain the right to use the contents of your Changes, and you
> may retain copyright to your Changes. Clauses (1) through (6) still
> apply. For special situations, you are encouraged to add comments to the
> "contributions" section of this Work, indicating the nature of your
> Change.
What do you mean by "special situations" ? How about additions to the
license that restrict the clauses above ? How about modifications to
the license in general ?
Maybe there should be also a mentioning of "derivative works",
as they are a "Work" of their own.
IMHO there should be also a clause, as we are dealing with
hardware, that any produced product shall also count as binary
as an addition to section 3 of the GPL.
Attila Kinali
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