Re: Thoughts on GPL's Appropriate Legal Notices? or the CPAL?

2011-12-15 Thread Clark C. Evans
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011, at 09:36 AM, Ben Finney wrote: I'll mention, again, that this forum is not appropriate for general discussion about licenses in the absence of an actual existing work that is proposed for (or already in) Debian. Hi Ben. I'm working to open source a medical informatics

Re: Thoughts on GPL's Appropriate Legal Notices? or the CPAL?

2011-12-15 Thread Clark C. Evans
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011, at 02:28 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: The critical aspect here is whether author attributions are required to be preserved in the material, or also in the ALNs. Retaining them in the material is clearly reasonable, but I don't believe that forcing them to be present in the

Re: Thoughts on GPL's Appropriate Legal Notices? or the CPAL?

2011-12-15 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 at 16:47:33 -0500, Clark C. Evans wrote: the question for me is if Powered By SugarCRM is a reasonable author attribution. No, I don't think it is. Copyright © 2011 John Doe and Copyright © 2011 SugarCRM Inc. are both Appropriate Legal Notices; Incorporates code by John

Re: Thoughts on GPL's Appropriate Legal Notices? or the CPAL?

2011-12-15 Thread Richard Fontana
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 02:43:33PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 at 16:47:33 -0500, Clark C. Evans wrote: the question for me is if Powered By SugarCRM is a reasonable author attribution. No, I don't think it is. Copyright © 2011 John Doe and Copyright © 2011

Re: Thoughts on GPL's Appropriate Legal Notices? or the CPAL?

2011-12-15 Thread MJ Ray
Richard Fontana rfont...@redhat.com On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 08:57:56PM +, MJ Ray wrote: I don't know of anywhere that Powered by SugarCRM is a legal notice. Does anyone? What legal effect does it have? I worked on the drafting of GPLv3 at my previous job (no tomatoes, please :). You