At 9:24 AM +1100 on 7/30/99, spierings wrote:
>> DEFINITIONS:
>>
>> LICENCE shall mean an OpenSource licence which allows:
>> 1) Any person to combine the licenced product with anything
>> else and release the resulting derived product so long as
>> they:
>> a) Release it under a different name; and
>> b) preferably (but optinally) Give credit
>> 2) Any person may fork. Conditions for forking shall be the
>> same as 1. Forking may include any use of any amount of
>> the source code.
>> LICENCE shall be perpetual, non-exlcusive, and irrevocable.
>>
>> OPENCARD shall mean a certain product being created by OODL in order
>> to be a new, OpenSource, HyperCard-like product.
>
>OpenSource? Two words, no caps I think. "open source".
Check out www.OpenSource.org
>Are we breaching copyright saying we are making a HyperCard-like product?
>Maybe a
>description of our product (RAD dev. tool) instead of just saying who we are
>copying.
Agreed. I don't think we'd be breaching copyright, but maybe trademark.
>
>> MAINTAINER shall mean the person in charge of OpenCard. His word
>>shall
>> be the Last Word (except for forking). He shall be chosen
>> a specified below. [Note this is intended for when we
>>have
>> official versions]
>
>He to maintainer. We are not a boys only club here. Girls can play too.
"He" is used when the gender of the person is unknown. Yes, I'm politically
incorrect and proud of it!
