On 11/11/07, Vinicius Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, external non-OGP repositories can keep only Traverslal copyright and GPL > license? Just to make it clear, because the "wrapper license" only > permits to remove: > > "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."
I interpret it this way: If you don't remove the clause, then theoretically, Traversal retains the right to commercially license it. We would not actually exercise that right, however. > I know that the wrapper license with that removed becomes GPL with > inofensive text. But > the wrapper license is not specific about the others terms.(Yeah, I'm > nitpicking, but that's > pretty much what Theo was doing too :) ) I'm not sure what to tell you. I'm not a lawyer either. I can just tell you what our intentions are and what we would actually do. > Also this dual-licensing is kind of non-sense for its purpose. I might > need to search the > archive for previous discussion but copyright assignment like Qt, > MySQL, Coyotos and other projects do is more effective and clear, > isn't it? (Might be a bureaucracy burden, but it's worth since it's a > proven model) In some ways, it's less of a license and more of a declaration of what rights Traversal holds on anything with that statement on it. Specifically, it's YOUR declaration, on anything you contribute, that you have given your permission to us to use it under these terms. If you feel that you can help us to tighten this up legally, we're willing to listen. -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
