Roger Filomeno wrote: > excuse my being noob about licenses, which foss license will "force" > other interopting system to the same license scheme. eg: webservice > using kannel will force the webservice to have bsd license too (sample > lang to ofcourse).
This is not possible to do using a copyright license. Copyright only covers distribution of covered works, and hence a copyright license can only impose conditions when the licensed work is being distributed. Since a client of a web service never obtains a copy of the code running on the server, no copyright license on the code of the server can influence any code interoperating with it. I think it might be possible if you had a contractual agreement. Contracts are reciprocal arrangements and they can impose nearly any condition, as long as such conditions are enforceable (e.g. 'you must give me your firstborn child as a slave' is not enforceable because slavery is against the law). Note however, that contracts must always be signed by both parties in order to be effective, which is not necessarily the case for software licenses. Most EULA's are not actually software licenses, but contracts, despite the name... Maybe in another life I would have become a lawyer. Feh. -- It is *so* convenient to have a system where everyone is a criminal. http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com/ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
