On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 08:59:22 -0400
Timothy Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I'm hoping that someone jerk doesn't try to test this in court or
> > > something. This is intended to be a statement of my intent, and I
> > > hope people will honor it. I guess you can't expect everyone to be
> > > honorable. I wonder how precise I need to be with this.
> >
> > Precise enough to catch 99% of the traps without being complicated.
> > I do not know whether we will face any jerks, but this license
> > will be an example for other companies and we should be prepared
> > that someone will try it in curt.
>
> Ok, I see your point. Forward-thinking.
Actualy there is another point we have to keep in mind:
Patents!
Ie what happens if someone sends a patch that we can freely
use and copy (from a copyright point of view) but not use
in a comercial product[1] because of patents that apply to it?
There are two ways to deal with it: Ignore the issue completely.
This worked sofar for most of the OSS projects i know[2].
They just simply say that they cannot check for patents
as there are too many. The other way would be to force
the patch commiters to check for patents and/or force them
to license the patents for free for this project.
[1] i explicitly said commercial, because the european
patent treaty only covers comercial use of patents.
Ie they simply ignore non-commercial use of them by which
it is possible to use patents in a non-commercial enviroment
(actualy it's a gray zone, but that's a different story)
[2] The only project i know that has been threatened
by a patent is libdca (formerly known as libdts) by
DTS Inc. Although the patent is not valid in France,
they still had to back off because noone had the money
to defend their rights in curt.
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Ok.
The only thing i see that could be missing, is a statement
that nothing but clause 2 may be changed or removed.
Attila Kinali
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