Re: A little question of a license

2008-11-29 Thread Lawrence Williams
I'm no legal genius, but it looks fairly benign. Basically it says, as long as you give us credit for the code, you can do whatever you want with it. - Lawrence Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: Hi, I would like to ask if a software that contains a file with this:

Re: A little question of a license THANKS

2008-10-17 Thread Leopold Palomo Avellaneda
A Dijous 16 Octubre 2008, Ben Finney va escriure: Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that yes, but I must admit that the legal stuff is something unclear to me. You've received correct responses (the license is effectively the same as the 3-clause BSD license,

A little question of a license

2008-10-16 Thread Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda
Hi, I would like to ask if a software that contains a file with this: -- Copyright (C) 2005, XX All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted

Re: A little question of a license

2008-10-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could be in main? (so is dfsg) Yes. I think that yes, but I must admit that the legal stuff is something unclear to me. Something as the classical licenses are clear, but this custom makes me crazy. It is

Re: A little question of a license

2008-10-16 Thread Sven Eckelmann
On Thursday 16 October 2008 16:01:06 Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: [...] could be in main? (so is dfsg) I think that yes, but I must admit that the legal stuff is something unclear to me. Something as the classical licenses are clear, but this custom makes me crazy. This isn't custom -

Re: A little question of a license

2008-10-16 Thread Siegfried-Angel
Hi, Sure, this license is just Attribution (and Don't use our names to promote derivate products), so there should be absolutely no problem with it. (Disclaimer: IANADD, IANAL, etc.) Regards, -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) Ubuntu Developer. Debian Contributor. -- To

Re: A little question of a license

2008-10-16 Thread Eric Cooper
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:01:06PM +0200, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: I would like to ask if a software that contains a file with this: -- Copyright (C) 2005, XX All rights reserved. Redistribution and

Re: A little question of a license

2008-10-16 Thread Ben Finney
Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that yes, but I must admit that the legal stuff is something unclear to me. You've received correct responses (the license is effectively the same as the 3-clause BSD license, minus warranty disclaimer). If you have future questions