I stand corrected. Concerning Corporation X, I should have said
without attribution and without source code.
Sean
On Jan 19, 2008 2:22 PM, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 19/01/2008, Sean DALY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, it's public domain then, which is fine
The public
Maybe we need a discussion on the pros and cons of the various OSS
licenses. Recommend me one!
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On 20/01/2008, Iain Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe we need a discussion on the pros and cons of the various OSS
licenses. Recommend me one!
Using any free software license is good, and I hope you'll consider
which is best based on how they promote and protect software freedoms
for
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 06:23:31PM +, Dave Crossland wrote:
How would you feel if some developer who receive your program can
improve it and then tell people, even you as the original author, that
you can't share that version with your friends, or see how their
improvement works, or build
On Sunday 20 January 2008 15:35:12 Iain Wallace wrote:
Maybe we need a discussion on the pros and cons of the various OSS
licenses. Recommend me one!
Summary:
1 Copyright notice applied enforced.
2 No license - falls back to copyright law.
3 Implied license (what you've done) -
On Sunday 20 January 2008 17:01:43 Sean DALY wrote:
A longstanding rumor, for which I have no proof, is that parts of
Microsoft's network code was simply copied from BSD code, which if
true would naturally explain why Microsoft is so hesitant to documents
its protocols not to mention its code.
On Jan 20, 2008 9:10 PM, Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 20 January 2008 15:35:12 Iain Wallace wrote:
Maybe we need a discussion on the pros and cons of the various OSS
licenses. Recommend me one!
Summary: snip
That's really useful, thanks! I think I'll go for a GPL
On 20/01/2008, Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's worth noting that license 5 is the weakest level of control a developer
can exert. Someone can take your work and either restrict your ability to take
changes (that you can release as 5) by either re-releasing your work in a
That's misleading (I'm sure non-intentionally). Microsoft have indeed used BSD
code in their systems in the past and as I recall it was the TCP/IP stack -
or portions thereof
Hmmm I meant aside from the TCP/IP stack -- after all, David Wheeler
mentions that in the article I linked to -- I
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