On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:46:14PM -0700, Dr. Yasha Karant wrote: > > 1. Under the Intellectual Property guidelines of CSUSB, the University > > owns nothing of academic work, including work done as part of research, > > student projects, independent studies, or class work. The Intellectual > > Property remains that of the originators: faculty and students. > > Then the faculty and students need to LGPL it. >
Agreed. > > 2. Working with the community is no problem, although as with all voluntary > > projects, there is no guarantee of continuity. Once we have something > > operational (fully operational) per an SRS (or the equivalent), future > > development and maintenance may return to the "community". > > Well, it can't get as worse we got the last few months. We need to > think positive, plex86 will rock and nobody would ever want to stop > developping it! :-) > My local copy started to work after I upgraded to X 4.2.0 (I compiled it myself--yes I'm crazy). Anybody else who has it working running X 4.2.0? > > 3. I am assuming that "ownership" is under the GPL or equivalent, as > > Plex86 is *NOT* a for-profit venture (unlike VMWare). > > It's under the LGPL. I don't care about plex86 being for profit, as > long as the code is under the (L)GPL. > Well I don't think that it needs to be for profit. But that isn't a big issue here. > > 4. Any innovative algorithms would be presented, along with implementations. > > Those are not allowed to get patented. We need a clear written > statement about that. Good point. Copyright is good enough for most things anyhow. Patenting will only drive plex86 out of the USA entirely. > > Jeroen Dekkers > -- > Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org > IRC: jeroen@openprojects > |^^^ | | |^^| |^^^ Drew Northup, N1XIM |^^| | |^^^ \ / /^^\ /^^~ |__ | | | | | |__| | |___ \/ |__| |__ | | | | | | www.plex86.org | | | /\ | | | \ ___| |__| |__| |___ web.syr.edu/~suoc/ | |___ |___ / \ \__/ \__/
