Re: CMU LTI Licence

2010-01-23 Thread Francis Tyers
Many thanks for your message, as I'm sure you appreciate, we also take free/open-source software and licensing very seriously, otherwise we wouldn't have gone through such a long email exchange to obtain clarification. Best wishes, Fran El ds 23 de 01 de 2010 a les 10:22 -0500, en/na Alan W

Re: CMU LTI Licence

2010-01-23 Thread Ben Finney
Francis Tyers spec...@ivixor.net writes: Many thanks for your message, as I'm sure you appreciate, we also take free/open-source software and licensing very seriously, otherwise we wouldn't have gone through such a long email exchange to obtain clarification. Ah well. I think an old piece of

Re: CMU LTI Licence

2010-01-22 Thread Ben Finney
Francis Tyers fty...@prompsit.com writes: I'm looking for some advice on the CMU LTI Licence, in full here[1] Something went wrong in copying the text; you haven't reproduced the license text in full. Here it is, as downloaded today from the URL you provided,

Re: CMU LTI Licence

2010-01-22 Thread Ben Finney
Here are some comments on this license. Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: ## Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to use and distribute ## ## this data and its documentation without restriction, including ## ## without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify,

Re: CMU LTI Licence

2010-01-22 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Hi, I think it's mostly a (4-clause) BSD license, only the name of the institute has changed. The 5th clause is new, but redundant with the rest. Le 22 janv. 10 à 11:49, Ben Finney a écrit : ## 5. Any commercial, public or published work that uses this data ## ## must

Re: CMU LTI Licence

2010-01-22 Thread Michael Poole
Ben Finney writes: ## 5. Any commercial, public or published work that uses this data ## ## must contain a clearly visible acknowledgment as to the ## ## provenance of the data. ## I don't really know what this means. It

Re: CMU LTI Licence

2010-01-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 22 janvier 2010 à 21:37 +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : As already said, the rest is very similar to a 4-clause BSD. ## 5. Any commercial, public or published work that uses this data ## ## must contain a clearly visible acknowledgment as to the ## ##

Re: CMU LTI Licence

2010-01-22 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:22:07 -0800 (PST) Walter Landry wrote: Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Or is the copyright holder's intent that the acknowledgement be clearly visible to every recipient, even those who receive a non-source form of the work? The latter would be a

Re: CMU LTI Licence

2010-01-22 Thread Francis Tyers
Here is a reply from Robert Frederking at CMU. Fran ---BeginMessage--- I'm not a lawyer, but let me start by stating that out intent was simply that re-use included acknowledgement. This was not intended to be a splash-screen on every start-up, or making the software pronounce our names at

Re: CMU LTI Licence

2010-01-22 Thread Ben Finney
Francis Tyers fty...@prompsit.com writes: Here is a reply from Robert Frederking at CMU. Thank you for getting this direct communication. Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:32:29 -0500 From: Robert Frederking r...@cs.cmu.edu I'm not a lawyer, but let me start by stating that out intent was simply

Re: CMU LTI Licence

2010-01-22 Thread Francis Tyers
Thanks, it would really help :) Best, Fran El dv 22 de 01 de 2010 a les 17:59 -0500, en/na Robert Frederking va escriure: I'll look into whether I can get the 5th clause dropped, but can't promise yet. Bob Francis Tyers wrote: I'm copying both Robert and the debian-legal list