IBM Public license compatibility

2008-04-17 Thread Alan Woodland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm currently looking into packaging a module for OpenDx. OpenDx is distributed under the IBM public license 1.0. The addon module for OpenDx currently doesn't have any specific license terms associated with it, however I've talked

Re: IBM Public license compatibility

2008-04-17 Thread Joe Smith
Alan Woodland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm currently looking into packaging a module for OpenDx. OpenDx is distributed under the IBM public license 1.0. The addon module for OpenDx currently doesn't have any

IBM Public License

2006-01-18 Thread Stephan Michels
Hi, I'm new to the whole debian packaging movement. So, please excuse me if I ask a question, which is already answered. I want to package UDDI4J ( http://uddi4j.sourceforge.net/ ), which runs under the IBM Public License Version 1.0 ( http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ipl.html

Re: IBM Public License

2006-01-18 Thread Michael Poole
Stephan Michels writes: Hi, I'm new to the whole debian packaging movement. So, please excuse me if I ask a question, which is already answered. I want to package UDDI4J ( http://uddi4j.sourceforge.net/ ), which runs under the IBM Public License Version 1.0 ( http://www-128.ibm.com

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 12:10:51PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:30:47AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Can you show me another DSFG-free licence that terminates depending on action taken not involving the covered work? On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 01:11:27AM -0500, Branden

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 06:18:17PM -0400, Walter Landry wrote: Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nathanael Nerode wrote: I just spotted a clause which I *really* don't like, however: Each party waives its rights to a jury trial in any resulting litigation. That's not a

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:30:47AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-05-14 10:50:26 +0100 Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 09:33:31AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: It imposes restrictions on what actions you can take over other software. That might make it incompatible with

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 07:45:40PM -0400, Walter Landry wrote: Gah. I really have to read more carefully. I read the license again, and it says that you have to sue a Contributor or sue about a patent related to the Program. So if SCO had distributed stuff under the IBM CPL, They may very

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 07:48:13PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On May 17, 2004, at 19:10, Steve Langasek wrote: IIRC, jury trials are only a Constitutional right where *criminal* proceedings are concerned, not for civil suits. Amendment VII In suits at common law, where the value

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-25 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:30:47AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Can you show me another DSFG-free licence that terminates depending on action taken not involving the covered work? On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 01:11:27AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: I am tempted to regard Raul's failure to rebut this

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Walter Landry wrote: But the venue doesn't necessarily favor one party over the other. Both sides waiving the right to a jury trial? Yes, it doesn't necessarily favor one party over the other. (Neither does choice of venue, which we also Don't Like.) I still think it's non-free; I mean, gee,

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 06:15:07PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Walter Landry wrote: But the venue doesn't necessarily favor one party over the other. Both sides waiving the right to a jury trial? Yes, it doesn't necessarily favor one party over the other. (Neither does choice of venue,

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On May 17, 2004, at 19:10, Steve Langasek wrote: IIRC, jury trials are only a Constitutional right where *criminal* proceedings are concerned, not for civil suits. Amendment VII In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-15 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Consider what we would say if we were explaining why debian-legal ruled this license non-free: Well, it doesn't allow you to sue the people who wrote the software and still keep the right to distribute the software. Absolutely. I don't see why I

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-15 Thread Walter Landry
Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nathanael Nerode wrote: I just spotted a clause which I *really* don't like, however: Each party waives its rights to a jury trial in any resulting litigation. That's not a legitimate requirement of a free software license, is it? No. I didn't

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-15 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On May 13, 2004, at 19:06, MJ Ray wrote: Can we reasonably expect that anyone licensing us some patents in order to use their software has such patents? If not, why don't they declare that instead of licensing a nothing to us? I doubt IBM knows which patents it has regarding most of the

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-14 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-05-14 00:33:53 +0100 Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 12:11:14AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Free software licences should not contaminate other software, remember? I agree -- and maybe I'm stupid, but I don't see a contamination mechanism here. [...] It imposes

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-14 Thread MJ Ray
Summary: we are being offered a non-free patent licence which may or may not be required, which is a different case to being offered no patent licence for no known relevant patents. On 2004-05-14 02:12:12 +0100 Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider what we would say if we were

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-14 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-05-14 03:28:02 +0100 Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you prefer that the license, like most earlier Free Software licenses, say nothing at all about patents in order to remain free, while IBM retains the freedom to sue you for infringing their patents *whether or not* you

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-14 Thread Raul Miller
I agree -- and maybe I'm stupid, but I don't see a contamination mechanism here. [...] On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 09:33:31AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: It imposes restrictions on what actions you can take over other software. That might make it incompatible with the GPL, but this is a typical

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-14 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 10:07:59AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Summary: we are being offered a non-free patent licence which may or may not be required, which is a different case to being offered no patent licence for no known relevant patents. It's not clear to me that this patent license is

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-14 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 10:07:59AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: We insist that licenses be perpetual unless terminated for non-compliance Branden Robinson during the LaTeX discussions http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/08/msg00108.html -- Now, the IBM patent licence terminates if you don't

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-14 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-05-14 10:50:26 +0100 Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 09:33:31AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: It imposes restrictions on what actions you can take over other software. That might make it incompatible with the GPL, but this is a typical characteristic of many

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-14 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-05-14 10:58:00 +0100 Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, you can't base that claim on the assertion that the license is non-free. Contaminating other software would make the license non-free, but the converse is not necessarily true. Does this post stating truisms mean

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-14 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-05-14 11:03:41 +0100 Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think that accepting non-free patent licenses is a useful way to defend free software. Then why would suing IBM over patent license violations matter for free software? The wording is a little vague: a patent

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-14 Thread Walter Landry
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-05-13 02:53:33 +0100 Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, it seems clearly non-free because it terminates if there is legal action against IBM about patents applicable to some other software. [...] It

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-14 Thread Humberto Massa
@ 14/05/2004 07:03 : wrote Raul Miller : On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 10:07:59AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: We insist that licenses be perpetual unless terminated for non-compliance Branden Robinson during the LaTeX discussions http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/08/msg00108.html -- Now, the

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-05-13 16:54:36 +0100 Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, if IBM begins initiates some patent litigation, it looks like the license still stands -- even if that litigation winds up nullifying the patent in question. [...] What if you want to enforce

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Raul Miller wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 05:17:30PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: What if you want to enforce some other patent applicable to software against IBM? What if IBM initiates against you and you want to use such a patent in a counterclaim? What does this have to do with free software?

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Raul Miller wrote: * The license doesn't discrimate against people, groups or fields of endeavor. [We do not recognize people wanting to enforce particular intellectual property claims as a field of endeavor, or the GPL wouldn't be free.] It's the lack of particularity which makes this

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-14 Thread Josh Triplett
Nathanael Nerode wrote: I just spotted a clause which I *really* don't like, however: Each party waives its rights to a jury trial in any resulting litigation. That's not a legitimate requirement of a free software license, is it? No. I didn't notice that earlier (mostly because I only

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-14 Thread Walter Landry
Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-05-13 02:53:33 +0100 Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, it seems clearly non-free because it terminates if there is legal action against IBM about patents

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-13 Thread MJ Ray
are involved. So the IBM Public License patent licence is some kind of self-contaminating. Is that as non-free as a self-contaminating copyright licence? Does self-contamination count as contaminating other licences by imposing restrictions on them that aren't in their licences? Are there patents

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-13 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-05-13 03:29:35 +0100 Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray wrote: To me, it seems clearly non-free because it terminates if there is legal action against IBM about patents applicable to some other software. [...] [...] This has the effect of a patent cross-license: Don't sue

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-13 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 10:30:03AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-05-13 02:53:33 +0100 Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, it seems clearly non-free because it terminates if there is legal action against IBM about patents applicable to some other

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-13 Thread Steven Augart
Public License is also the license for Postfix (my own mailer of choice, and part Debian/main), I would prefer that any concerns about the license be resolved rather than left hanging. (I realize that's not incompatible with what Frank said.) 2) If the author is issuing the software under the IBM

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-13 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 10:30:03AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: This seems rather worse than being mute about patents, putting IBM in a position of strength if software patents are involved. I don't think I agree. At least, not yet. In reading over this license, I see a number of clauses designed to

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-13 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-05-13 16:54:36 +0100 Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, if IBM begins initiates some patent litigation, it looks like the license still stands -- even if that litigation winds up nullifying the patent in question. [...] What if you want to enforce some other patent

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-13 Thread Josh Triplett
MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-05-13 16:54:36 +0100 Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, if IBM begins initiates some patent litigation, it looks like the license still stands -- even if that litigation winds up nullifying the patent in question. [...] What if you want to enforce

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-13 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 05:17:30PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: What if you want to enforce some other patent applicable to software against IBM? What if IBM initiates against you and you want to use such a patent in a counterclaim? What does this have to do with free software? Why should this

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-13 Thread Josh Triplett
other licenses, which say nothing about patents, and therefore imply We may have patents, and we may sue you at any time just for using the software.? If we rule the IBM Public License to be non-free, then all licenses that say nothing about patents should also be ruled non-free. Also, note

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-13 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-05-13 18:09:47 +0100 Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray wrote: Why should this software's licence, not directly involved in the cases above, terminate? This software's license doesn't terminate. The patent license from all of the software's contributors not to sue you

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-13 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-05-13 18:12:32 +0100 Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 05:17:30PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: What if you want to enforce some other patent applicable to software against IBM? What if IBM initiates against you and you want to use such a patent in a counterclaim?

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-13 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-05-13 18:24:21 +0100 Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, note that this license isn't saying We license you these patents, ..., but instead We license you whatever patents we may or may not have over this software, Like any other piece of software, it may or may not

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-13 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 12:06:58AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Sure, but a patent licence might not be needed because there are no patents covering the software. If there are patents covering it, then having no patent licence = non-free. Unfortunately, it's not that simple -- the U.S. patent office

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-13 Thread Raul Miller
What does this have to do with free software? On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 12:11:14AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Free software licences should not contaminate other software, remember? I agree -- and maybe I'm stupid, but I don't see a contamination mechanism here. All I see is statements saying

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
it the IBM Public License. Also the upgrade clause is insane if the original author isn't IBM. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-13 Thread Josh Triplett
MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-05-13 18:09:47 +0100 Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray wrote: Why should this software's licence, not directly involved in the cases above, terminate? This software's license doesn't terminate. The patent license from all of the software's contributors

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 05:17:30PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-05-13 16:54:36 +0100 Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, if IBM begins initiates some patent litigation, it looks like the license still stands -- even if that litigation winds up nullifying the patent in

IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-12 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
Hi. I just wanted to package a piece of software and saw that it is licensed under the IBM Public License[1] (IPL). Since the license included some suspicios clauses I searched the list archives about it. The findings were confusing: - There are many discussions (e.g. [2], [3]) about the patent

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-12 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-05-12 22:59:18 +0100 Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to package a piece of software and saw that it is licensed under the IBM Public License[1] (IPL). Normally, you should include the licence text. Since the license included some suspicios clauses I searched

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-12 Thread Walter Landry
Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I just wanted to package a piece of software and saw that it is licensed under the IBM Public License[1] (IPL). Since the license included some suspicios clauses I searched the list archives about it. The findings were confusing

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-12 Thread Walter Landry
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-05-12 22:59:18 +0100 Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to package a piece of software and saw that it is licensed under the IBM Public License[1] (IPL). Normally, you should include the licence text. Since the license

Re: IBM Public License (again)

2004-05-12 Thread Josh Triplett
MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-05-12 22:59:18 +0100 Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to package a piece of software and saw that it is licensed under the IBM Public License[1] (IPL). Normally, you should include the licence text. Since the license included some suspicios

IBM Public License 1.0 - ICU

2000-09-21 Thread Yves Arrouye
/): The ICU project is licensed under the IBM Public License, which has been approved by the Open Source Initiative. So I don't expect problems for inclusion in Debian. Or should I? Also, if that license is OK, should I package it with ICU, or should I try to get it included in base-files? Thanks

Re: IBM Public License 1.0 - ICU

2000-09-21 Thread David Starner
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:34:16PM -0700, Yves Arrouye wrote: Also, if that license is OK, should I package it with ICU, or should I try to get it included in base-files? Why would you include it in base-files? It's not exactly a common license. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp:

RE: IBM Public License 1.0 - ICU

2000-09-21 Thread Yves Arrouye
Why would you include it in base-files? It's not exactly a common license. I'm just asking :) It's not a common license but the number of licenses that Debian agrees with is not that big either, so it may be a good idea to put them here. That will also help new maintainers know which license

Re: IBM Public License 1.0 - ICU

2000-09-21 Thread David Starner
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:41:32PM -0700, Yves Arrouye wrote: I'm just asking :) It's not a common license but the number of licenses that Debian agrees with is not that big either, so it may be a good idea to put them here. Actually, the number of licenses Debian agrees with is pretty large.

Re: IBM public license

1999-07-07 Thread bruce
From: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought I shared that meaning with everyone else on the list. I sometimes see the need to make things very clear because there are people on the list with widely differing levels of sophistication as far as license interpretation is concerned.

Re: IBM public license

1999-07-07 Thread Richard Braakman
Henning Makholm wrote: Hmm, but it does not say it must be made available _solely_ under this Agreement. An interesting word game, but I think that a permission to relicense a work under arbitrary terms needs to be a little more explicit than this. Well... you don't _need_ permission to

Re: IBM public license

1999-07-07 Thread Henning Makholm
Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Henning Makholm wrote: Hmm, but it does not say it must be made available _solely_ under this Agreement. An interesting word game, but I think that a permission to relicense a work under arbitrary terms needs to be a little more explicit than

Re: IBM public license

1999-07-06 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 06:22:36PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: Yes: the IBM license lets a contributor put another license on the program, but doesn't let it be transitive -- which excludes the GPL. I was wondering if there were any *other* issues besides that one. Bruce had indicated that

Re: IBM public license

1999-07-06 Thread Henning Makholm
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This clearly states that the parts I reuse from the IBM-licenses program must be GPL-licensed when I distribute my program. Which IBM does not allow me to. Yes: the IBM license lets a contributor put another

Re: IBM public license

1999-07-06 Thread Henning Makholm
Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does the latest version of the IBM license still require one to waive their right to a jury trial? Yes. So does potentially a other free licenses that require that disputes are to be settled in a specific court in a country where juries are not used

Re: IBM public license

1999-07-06 Thread Raul Miller
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No it does not. It only allows changes of license for *binaries*. Thanks. I apologize. [I'd overlooked the object code form bit.] -- Raul

Re: IBM public license

1999-07-06 Thread Raul Miller
Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the latest version of the IBM license still require one to waive their right to a jury trial? Hmm.. yeah. The most recent copy I have does, and that is another conflict with the GPL. Thanks, -- Raul

Re: IBM public license

1999-07-06 Thread Richard Braakman
Henning Makholm wrote: No it does not. It only allows changes of license for *binaries*. It spells this out loud and clear: | When the Program is made available in source code form: | a) it must be made available under this Agreement; and | b) a copy of this Agreement must be

Re: IBM public license

1999-07-06 Thread Henning Makholm
Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Henning Makholm wrote: It spells this out loud and clear: | When the Program is made available in source code form: | a) it must be made available under this Agreement; and | b) a copy of this Agreement must be included with each copy

Re: IBM public license

1999-07-06 Thread bruce
But certainly you can put _your_own_contribution_ under any number of licenses, though this might not effect the licensing of the combined product. That at least facilitates writing out the non-GPL part over time. Thanks Bruce

Re: IBM public license

1999-07-06 Thread Henning Makholm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But certainly you can put _your_own_contribution_ under any number of licenses, Certainly. When I speak of GPL compatibility I refer to the possibility of taking some code produced by IBM and incorporating it into GNU foo. I thought I shared that meaning with

Re: IBM public license

1999-07-05 Thread Henning Makholm
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Note that this quote uses the phrase licensed as a whole. If you continue reading (top of the next page), you'll see: I don't see how that section applies to the scenario we're discussing (a program that reuses some code from an IBM-licensed program and

Re: IBM public license

1999-07-05 Thread Raul Miller
But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote

Re: IBM public license

1999-07-04 Thread Raul Miller
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [IPL is not GPL compatible] But I'm curious about these other conflicts. I've not read the license closely enough to pin them down or to rule them out. Having someone else's insight on the matter would be illuminating. Henning Makholm [EMAIL

Re: IBM public license

1999-07-04 Thread Henning Makholm
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider the situation where I take some code from a GPL'ed program and some code from a program under the IBM license, add some of my own and wish to distribute the result. Now, since my program is a

Re: IBM public license

1999-07-04 Thread Raul Miller
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider the situation where I take some code from a GPL'ed program and some code from a program under the IBM license, add some of my own and wish to distribute the result. Now, since my program is a deriviate of the GPL'ed program, I can

IBM public license

1999-07-02 Thread bruce
to the terms of their agreement. I am not sure if this helps. but If you would like to provide me the exact wording of the obligation I may be able to help you further. Also, just wondering does this have anything to do with the IBM Public License?

Re: [wietse@porcupine.org: Please review: Official IBM Public License]

1999-06-30 Thread bruce
I'll ask IBM to clear up that language. They've been very cooperative of late. Thanks Bruce From: Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! I don't see where the license makes that kind of distinction. ! ! Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ! [Please Cc me, I'm not subscribed.] !

Re: Please Review: Official IBM Public License

1999-06-29 Thread Henning Makholm
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [commenting my reasons why I think the patent clauses in IBM's license does not cause it to fail the DFSG]. Right. On the other hand, when an author has asked us not to distribute some piece of software, we've not distributed it. This is basic

Re: Please Review: Official IBM Public License

1999-06-29 Thread Raul Miller
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not meant as an argument that IPL is not DFSG-compiant, is it? Correct: it's not that sort of argument. -- Raul

Re: [wietse@porcupine.org: Please review: Official IBM Public License]

1999-06-29 Thread Bruce Perens
(scrawling on the screen of my Palm-Pilot) You could make it GPL compatible. The quoted clause applies to parallel contributors and does not prevent subsequent contributors from continuing to honor your license. Thanks Bruce Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Please Cc

Re: [wietse@porcupine.org: Please review: Official IBM Public License]

1999-06-29 Thread Raul Miller
Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (scrawling on the screen of my Palm-Pilot) You could make it GPL compatible. The quoted clause applies to parallel contributors and does not prevent subsequent contributors from continuing to honor your license. I don't see where the license makes that

Re: Please Review: Official IBM Public License

1999-06-28 Thread Henning Makholm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kragen Sitaker) writes: So simply because the copyright on a piece of software is licensed under the IPL does not mean that the patents in it are licensed in DFSG-compliant ways; it seems to me that the patents could be licensed (by IBM) in ways that violate section 3 of

[wietse@porcupine.org: Please review: Official IBM Public License]

1999-06-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
IBM PUBLIC LICENSE - [INSERT NAME OF PROJECT] VERSION 1.0 6/14/99 THE ACCOMPANYING PROGRAM IS PROVIDED UNDER THE TERMS OF THIS IBM PUBLIC LICENSE (AGREEMENT). ANY USE, REPRODUCTION OR DISTRIBUTION OF THE PROGRAM CONSTITUTES RECIPIENT'S ACCEPTANCE OF THIS AGREEMENT. 1. DEFINITIONS

Re: Please Review: Official IBM Public License

1999-06-28 Thread Raul Miller
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my reading, the DFSG does not concern itself with hypothetical patent licenses. No declaration from a free software author can guarantee that there'll never be patent problems, so if the DFSG were to require such guarantee Debian would suddenly fit

Re: [wietse@porcupine.org: Please review: Official IBM Public License]

1999-06-28 Thread Raul Miller
Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Please Cc me, I'm not subscribed.] This is the new Postfix license. Is it GPL-compatible? I don't think so. A Contributor may choose to distribute the Program in object code form under its own license agreement, provided that: a) it complies

Re: [wietse@porcupine.org: Please review: Official IBM Public License]

1999-06-25 Thread Henning Makholm
Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IBM PUBLIC LICENSE - [INSERT NAME OF PROJECT] VERSION 1.0 6/14/99 Looks DFSG-ok to me. maybe debian can make a statement ? so postfix can be moved to main AFAIK Debian as a project does not normally make formal statements about whether

Re: Please Review: Official IBM Public License

1999-06-25 Thread Kragen Sitaker
I'm starting to get to the point where I am no longer interested in working with, or even thinking about, code that doesn't have a well-known license. For example, the IBM Data Explorer license appears to leave the possibility open that people distributing modified versions will get sued in the

Re: Please Review: Official IBM Public License

1999-06-25 Thread Wietse Venema
Kragen Sitaker: I'm starting to get to the point where I am no longer interested in working with, or even thinking about, code that doesn't have a well-known license. For example, the IBM Data Explorer license appears to leave the possibility open that people distributing modified versions

Re: [wietse@porcupine.org: Please review: Official IBM Public License]

1999-06-24 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
IBM PUBLIC LICENSE - [INSERT NAME OF PROJECT] VERSION 1.0 6/14/99 Looks DFSG-ok to me. maybe debian can make a statement ? so postfix can be moved to main from non-free, after the licence has changed. it's my favorite mta :-) thanks for your work. andreas

Re: [wietse@porcupine.org: Please review: Official IBM Public License]

1999-06-23 Thread Henning Makholm
Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And here it is. Reactions are welcome, before we apply this license to Postfix/Secure Mailer. IBM PUBLIC LICENSE - [INSERT NAME OF PROJECT] VERSION 1.0 6/14/99 Looks DFSG-ok to me. If Recipient institutes patent litigation against

[wietse@porcupine.org: Please review: Official IBM Public License]

1999-06-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
IBM PUBLIC LICENSE - [INSERT NAME OF PROJECT] VERSION 1.0 6/14/99 THE ACCOMPANYING PROGRAM IS PROVIDED UNDER THE TERMS OF THIS IBM PUBLIC LICENSE (AGREEMENT). ANY USE, REPRODUCTION OR DISTRIBUTION OF THE PROGRAM CONSTITUTES RECIPIENT'S ACCEPTANCE OF THIS AGREEMENT

[wietse@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema)] Please review: Official IBM Public License

1999-06-22 Thread mdorman
are welcome, before we apply this license to Postfix/Secure Mailer. Wietse IBM PUBLIC LICENSE - [INSERT NAME OF PROJECT] VERSION 1.0 6/14/99 THE ACCOMPANYING PROGRAM IS PROVIDED UNDER THE TERMS OF THIS IBM PUBLIC LICENSE

[Wietse Venema: Please review: Official IBM Public License]

1999-06-22 Thread Samuel Tardieu
FYI I'm not on debian-legal, sorry if it has been posted already :/ - Forwarded message from Wietse Venema [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Subject: Please review: Official IBM Public License To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Postfix users) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:18:23 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[wietse@porcupine.org: Please review: Official IBM Public License]

1999-06-22 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
from postfix mailing list. i would like to know if this licence is dfsg ok. andreas -- And here it is. Reactions are welcome, before we apply this license to Postfix/Secure Mailer. Wietse IBM PUBLIC LICENSE - [INSERT

IBM public license

1999-06-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
According to a slashdot comment, a new version of Jikes will be released soon under the IBM Public License v1.0 (http://www.research.ibm.com/dx/srcDownload/license.html); this license is already used for the IBM Open Visualization Data Explorer (http://www.research.ibm.com/dx/). Can someone go

Re: IBM public license

1999-06-18 Thread bruce
I'm told the visual explorer license was rushed out and won't be the last word. Bruce

Re: IBM PUBLIC LICENSE - OpenSource?

1999-05-29 Thread John Hasler
Ben Pfaff writes: This clause in particular I find confusing. I'm not at all sure what it means: It means that Sun can put the Program in Solaris and distribute it under the Solaris license, but that in doing so they agree to take responsibility for any lawsuits that result. -- John Hasler

Re: IBM PUBLIC LICENSE - OpenSource?

1999-05-29 Thread John Hasler
Joseph Carter writes: Only the lawyers at IBM could take a two paragraph BSDish license and make 9 pages out of it. Much closer to GPL than BSD, IMHO. You can distribute binaries under your license, but you must make source available under the IBM license. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IBM PUBLIC LICENSE - OpenSource?

1999-05-29 Thread John Hasler
Marcelo E. Magallon writes: I browsed IBM's site, but I couldn't find any reference that claims this license is OpenSource... I don't know if it is Open Source, but IMHO it is free. I don't like that final sentences about compliabce with laws, but I think we can live with it. I *really* like

Re: IBM PUBLIC LICENSE - OpenSource?

1999-05-29 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 06:46:13PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Only the lawyers at IBM could take a two paragraph BSDish license and make 9 pages out of it. Much closer to GPL than BSD, IMHO. You can distribute binaries under your license, but you must make source available under the IBM

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