Well... I've taken a brief look to
opensource.org licenses and I quickly realized that I'll need to read
many many many pages before finding a proper license.
Maybe you can help me finding such a license quickly.
My desire is to allow free non-commercial use of this extension. For
commercial use, I want to be notified so that I can decide if allow or
deny this right. The purpose is to allow the diffusion of the extension
without letting sly people to take undue advantages from it.
For derivative works... well, I think that it will be impossible to
find a license that forbid the right to create derivative works, nor I
want to forbid this right. However, I'd like to be informed by people
before they start a new project. This with the purpose of talking to
this people and finding a solution that will not cause the project to
split in different projects with the same final purpose. It's only a
matter of granting end users a quick search for the solution they need,
instead of looking for dozen of different but similar projects (a far
from uncommon practice, in OpenSource world).
Can you help me with this?
Filippo Possenti wrote:
I read the three messages.
Since Creative Commons seems not made for "coding", I'll change the
license. I'll do it within the next 24 hours.
I'll move the entire site on mozdev, as well. I just need some time,
since I want to check every page before moving on mozdev.
David Boswell wrote:
Let's see what the SmarySync project owner says and then we can decide
what to do. If needed, we can ask the lawyers on our board to review
how the terms apply in this case.
AFAICT, the SmartSync project is hosted on a different site and the
mozdev project page is just redirecting people. If they just wanted a
link from mozdev to their site, we can add them to the External
Projects page and then the license wouldn't be an issue.
David
The Mozdev Terms of Use say this:
"All code for each project hosted on the Site must be made available
under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) unless otherwise noted on the
project pages. More information about the MPL can be found at
http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/. If a project is not using the MPL it
must
to use one of the other OSI-approved open source licenses."
The SmartSync project is using:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/>
I'm specifically objecting to:
"No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform, or build upon
this
work."
As far as I can tell from this page:
<http://www.opensource.org/licenses/>
None of the CC licences have been approved by the OSI.
Based on the Mozdev AUP, I am now assuming that by registering their
project on Mozdev, they have implicitly released their code under the
MPL overriding the "No Derivative Works" clause in the CC licence.
Phil
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