Re: License Framework: Develop Best Practices

2010-10-23 Thread Marco Bröder
On Tue June 15 2010 23:22:35 Wesley Shields wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 02:46:27AM +0200, Marco Bröder wrote: Hello, I know the ports license framework is very new and not mature yet. But it is not very useful in its current state, because several popular licenses are missing and

Re: License Framework: Develop Best Practices

2010-10-23 Thread Alejandro Pulver
On 10/23/2010 2:41 PM, Marco Bröder wrote: On Tue June 15 2010 23:22:35 Wesley Shields wrote: I neither saw a reply from alepulver@ nor anything else on this subject. Are there any further news? There was nothing added to the Porter's Handbook, too. So I guess the situation did not change

Re: License Framework: Develop Best Practices

2010-10-23 Thread Alejandro Pulver
On 10/23/2010 2:41 PM, Marco Bröder wrote: On Tue June 15 2010 23:22:35 Wesley Shields wrote: I neither saw a reply from alepulver@ nor anything else on this subject. Are there any further news? There was nothing added to the Porter's Handbook, too. So I guess the situation did not change

Re: License Framework: Develop Best Practices

2010-06-17 Thread Erwin Lansing
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:48:14AM -0700, Micheas Herman wrote: I don't think the FreeBSD project could afford to have this license cataloging scheme regularly inspected by appropriate legal counsel for each of the various different jurisdictions around the world and for them to approve

Re: License Framework: Develop Best Practices

2010-06-17 Thread jhell
On 06/16/2010 16:06, Dominic Fandrey wrote: On 15/06/2010 02:46, Marco Bröder wrote: BSD-2-clause# Simplified BSD License BSD-3-clause# Modified or New BSD License BSD-4-clause# Original BSD License Just a side note, am I the only one using a single clause variant of the BSDL?

Re: License Framework: Develop Best Practices

2010-06-16 Thread Micheas Herman
On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 08:21 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/06/2010 07:46:27, Eric wrote: It would seem from reading the various posting that the two missing features are some sort of clean way of saying this license or higher and possibly

Re: License Framework: Develop Best Practices

2010-06-16 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 15/06/2010 02:46, Marco Bröder wrote: BSD-2-clause# Simplified BSD License BSD-3-clause# Modified or New BSD License BSD-4-clause# Original BSD License Just a side note, am I the only one using a single clause variant of the BSDL? I really don't give a damn what people do with

Re: License Framework: Develop Best Practices

2010-06-15 Thread Eric
From: Philip M. Gollucci pgollu...@p6m7g8.com Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:03:08 + On 06/15/10 00:46, Marco Bröder wrote: I find it especially important to have a expression for 'version X or any later version' (for example 'LGPLv2+'), since the following dummy example is not adequate: A

Re: License Framework: Develop Best Practices

2010-06-15 Thread Janne Snabb
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Chuck Swiger wrote: Where I live, someone without a legal degree cannot offer legal advice [..] It might also not be a bad idea to not display anything about licensing until a human enables some Makefile switch which acknowledges the limitations of the system (ie, license

Re: License Framework: Develop Best Practices

2010-06-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/06/2010 07:46:27, Eric wrote: It would seem from reading the various posting that the two missing features are some sort of clean way of saying this license or higher and possibly something along the lines of like this licence for cases where

Re: License Framework: Develop Best Practices

2010-06-15 Thread Micheas Herman
On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 08:21 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/06/2010 07:46:27, Eric wrote: It would seem from reading the various posting that the two missing features are some sort of clean way of saying this license or higher and possibly

Re: License Framework: Develop Best Practices

2010-06-15 Thread Marco Bröder
On Tue June 15 2010 04:03:08 Philip M. Gollucci wrote: On 06/15/10 00:46, Marco Bröder wrote: I find it especially important to have a expression for 'version X or any later version' (for example 'LGPLv2+'), since the following dummy example is not adequate: A very good idea, but not

Re: License Framework: Develop Best Practices

2010-06-15 Thread Marco Bröder
On Tue June 15 2010 09:10:49 Janne Snabb wrote: As a previous poster pointed out, I also think that the different BSD licences should be separated. Yes, they really are different licenses. Who else should it know better than the FreeBSD Project (and NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD, ...)? ;-)

Re: License Framework: Develop Best Practices

2010-06-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Marco Bröder marco.broe...@gmx.eu wrote: On Tue June 15 2010 09:10:49 Janne Snabb wrote: As a previous poster pointed out, I also think that the different BSD licences should be separated. Yes, they really are different licenses. The BSD license has evolved

Re: License Framework: Develop Best Practices

2010-06-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Garrett Cooper yanef...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Marco Bröder marco.broe...@gmx.eu wrote: On Tue June 15 2010 09:10:49 Janne Snabb wrote: As a previous poster pointed out, I also think that the different BSD licences should be

Re: License Framework: Develop Best Practices

2010-06-15 Thread Wesley Shields
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 02:46:27AM +0200, Marco Br??der wrote: Hello, I know the ports license framework is very new and not mature yet. But it is not very useful in its current state, because several popular licenses are missing and some license foo is not right / specific enough to be

Re: License Framework: Develop Best Practices

2010-06-14 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/15/10 00:46, Marco Bröder wrote: I find it especially important to have a expression for 'version X or any later version' (for example 'LGPLv2+'), since the following dummy example is not adequate: A very good idea, but not neccessarily the

Re: License Framework: Develop Best Practices

2010-06-14 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Marco Br?der wrote: But it is not very useful in its current state, because several popular licenses are missing and some license foo is not right / specific enough to be considered legally correct (for example there is no 'one BSD License', there are at least three of

Re: License Framework: Develop Best Practices

2010-06-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 14, 2010, at 8:30 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Marco Br?der wrote: But it is not very useful in its current state, because several popular licenses are missing and some license foo is not right / specific enough to be considered legally correct (for example there is no