Re: flowc license

2005-02-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Francesco Poli: On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 18:17:24 -0700 Joel Aelwyn wrote: But in my experience, when contacting authors, a great many of them simply copied boilerplate from an old BSD license, and if you discuss with them the rationale given by the University of California when they

Re: flowc license

2005-02-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Joel Aelwyn: 4) The DFSG tradition is muddy (at best) on whether it refers to the 4-clause or 3-clause variant of the license - It's pretty clear: The DFSG are older than the wide-spread adoption of the 3-clause BSD license. Until UC Berkeley relicensed the Berkeley Software Distribution

Re: Making legal issues as short as possible

2005-02-12 Thread OSS
Harald Geyer wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:20:42PM +0100, Harald Geyer wrote: "Copyright 2005 by XYZ. The copyright holder hereby grants permission to everyone, forever, to do anything with this work which would otherwise be restricted by his exclusive

Re: Making legal issues as short as possible

2005-02-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 08:44:32PM +0100, Harald Geyer wrote: I don't see anything in our message that is not specific to my original wording. Probably you can give me a pointer, why this enhanced version is still poor. Especially I don't see why a liberal and short license is a disfavor to

Re: Making legal issues as short as possible

2005-02-12 Thread Dave Hornford
Harald Geyer wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:20:42PM +0100, Harald Geyer wrote: "Copyright 2005 by XYZ. The copyright holder hereby grants permission to everyone, forever, to do anything with this work which would otherwise be restricted by his exclusive