Forget Me Not - Commensurate Attribution
I have approval to release HTSQL (http://htsql) under the AGPLv3 license so long as it contains an attribution requirement as permitted by section 7 of the GPL. We also plan to release some other components of our RexDB work under a more liberal permissive license with a similar attribution requirement. The particular Additional Term I'm proposing can be found here: https://github.com/hattip/fmn/blob/master/GPL-FMN-TERM Rather than do this in a manner that hurts license proliferation, I'm attempting to make generally reusable AGPLv3 clause and such license derived from the MIT so that others that wish attribution could use these terms instead of minting their own. To this end, I've setup a GitHub project, for this Forget Me Not effort: https://github.com/hattip/fmn#readme As part of this broader effort, I hope to also have a simple compliance tool that would generate a static web page that could be used for credits licensing. I'd love your commentary and assistance making this broadly useful and I particularly value feedback by Debian community. Best, Clark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1327267915.32363.140661026629...@webmail.messagingengine.com
Re: Forget Me Not - Commensurate Attribution
I apologize, the repository is https://github.com/tip-o-the-hat/fmn On Sun, Jan 22, 2012, at 04:31 PM, Clark C. Evans wrote: I have approval to release HTSQL (http://htsql) under the AGPLv3 license so long as it contains an attribution requirement as permitted by section 7 of the GPL. We also plan to release some other components of our RexDB work under a more liberal permissive license with a similar attribution requirement. The particular Additional Term I'm proposing can be found here: https://github.com/tip-o-the-hat/fmn/blob/master/GPL-FMN-TERM Rather than do this in a manner that hurts license proliferation, I'm attempting to make generally reusable AGPLv3 clause and such license derived from the MIT so that others that wish attribution could use these terms instead of minting their own. To this end, I've setup a GitHub project, for this Forget Me Not effort: https://github.com/tip-o-the-hat/fmn#readme As part of this broader effort, I hope to also have a simple compliance tool that would generate a static web page that could be used for credits licensing. I'd love your commentary and assistance making this broadly useful and I particularly value feedback by Debian community. Best, Clark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1327270775.10375.140661026641...@webmail.messagingengine.com
Re: Forget Me Not - Commensurate Attribution
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:31:55 -0500 Clark C. Evans wrote: I have approval to release HTSQL (http://htsql) under the AGPLv3 license I won't repeat myself here, but, as you already know, I am *not* happy to see another project that adopts the GNU AfferoGPL v3: I think that this license choice makes the work non-free... so long as it contains an attribution requirement as permitted by section 7 of the GPL. [...] The particular Additional Term I'm proposing can be found here: Just a couple of quick comments: https://github.com/tip-o-the-hat/fmn/blob/master/GPL-FMN-TERM describes itself as an additional permissive term, but seems to actually be an additional requirement. I am under the impression that it should be considered a non-permissive additional term, as defined in the GNU GPL v3 (and in the GNU AfferoGPL v3). I am not sure I understand which is the category of allowed non-permissive additional terms this one is intended to belong to. Section 7 of the GNU (Affero)GPL v3 lists 6 categories (a through f) of non-permissive additional terms that may supplement of the terms written in the text of the license. Which category should the FMN Term be considered belonging to? -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! . Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE pgpiWNyDzpmg1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Forget Me Not - Commensurate Attribution
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012, at 12:08 AM, Francesco Poli wrote: https://github.com/tip-o-the-hat/fmn/blob/master/GPL-FMN-TERM describes itself as an additional permissive term, but seems to actually be an additional requirement. Quite right. I was reading section 7 incorrectly and had mentally omitted the word other. So, you're correct, this is a non-permissive additional term as defined by the GPLv3. I've fixed this, thank you so much! I am not sure I understand which is the category of allowed non-permissive additional terms this one is intended to belong to. Section 7 of the GNU (Affero)GPL v3 lists 6 categories (a through f) of non-permissive additional terms that may supplement of the terms written in the text of the license. I was intending for it to be subject to 7b, in particular, Requiring ... author attributions ... in the Appropriate Legal Notices displayed by works containing it To help move things along, I've written a Language Discussion section in the readme describing my logic. I'm hopeful to have commentary and any corrections you might see. https://github.com/tip-o-the-hat/fmn#readme Best, Clark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1327301397.16819.140661026667...@webmail.messagingengine.com
