Re: Launchpad to be free

2009-03-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Thomas Charron wrote: >  Didn't know that suddenly we needed disclaimers to make that point. I'm on the Board of Directors (such as it is) of the entity registered with the state of NH as "Greater New Hampshire Linux Users Group". I brought up GNHLUG as an examp

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2009-03-02 Thread Shawn O'Shea
ail/python-dev/2009-January/085347.html Hopefully these docs and discussions will give you some insight on what you want to do for your code. -Shawn > > > - Original Message > From: Bruce Dawson > To: Greg Rundlett > Cc: GNHLUG > Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:22

Re: Launchpad to be free

2009-03-02 Thread Mark Ellison
Hi Ben, On 03/01/2009 03:25 PM, Ben Scott wrote: On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Thomas Charron wrote: And then, the granting of an entirely new license. Note the right the 'rent and resell': Renting and reselling Free Software is not prohibited by any of the major licenses, as fa

Re: Launchpad to be free

2009-03-01 Thread Thomas Charron
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > DISCLAIMER: I always speak only for myself, unless otherwise explicitly > stated. As always, everyone here does. :-D Didn't know that suddenly we needed disclaimers to make that point. > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Thomas Charron wro

Re: Launchpad to be free

2009-03-01 Thread Ben Scott
DISCLAIMER: I always speak only for myself, unless otherwise explicitly stated. On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Thomas Charron wrote: > Here's the crux of the complaints against sourceforges TOS ... Yes, I read them. Which is more than most do, I think. Witness my objection to "proprietary";

Re: Launchpad to be free

2009-03-01 Thread Thomas Charron
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Greg Rundlett > wrote: >> Sourceforge's TOS basically "All your code are belong to >> us" (you grant them a proprietary license [1]). >  That's a bit much.  Now, their TOS are confusing, no doubt about it. >  But

Re: Launchpad to be free

2009-02-28 Thread Ben Scott
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Greg Rundlett wrote: > Sourceforge's TOS basically "All your code are belong to > us" (you grant them a proprietary license [1]). That's a bit much. Now, their TOS are confusing, no doubt about it. But in addition what you're looking at, they also state "Excep

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2009-02-28 Thread Lori Nagel
e there anymore.) - Original Message From: Bruce Dawson To: Greg Rundlett Cc: GNHLUG Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:22:21 AM Subject: Re: Launchpad to be free Greg Rundlett wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: > > >> On 02/27/200

Re: Launchpad to be free

2009-02-28 Thread Bruce Dawson
Greg Rundlett wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: > > >> On 02/27/2009 08:35 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: >> >>> Somewhere or another there was an explanation in writing... Oh, there, >>> found it: >>> >> Ah: >> >> "There are two components, Soyuz and Codehosti

Re: Launchpad to be free

2009-02-28 Thread Greg Rundlett
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: > On 02/27/2009 08:35 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > Somewhere or another there was an explanation in writing... Oh, there, > > found it: > > Ah: > > "There are two components, Soyuz and Codehosting, that we're keeping > internal. They're part of

Re: Launchpad to be free

2009-02-27 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 02/27/2009 08:35 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: > Somewhere or another there was an explanation in writing... Oh, there, > found it: Ah: "There are two components, Soyuz and Codehosting, that we're keeping internal. They're part of Canonical's "secret sauce" in business areas that we care a lot abo

Re: Launchpad to be free

2009-02-27 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Feb 27, 2009, at 6:42 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: > On 02/27/2009 11:40 AM, Jarod Wilson wrote: >> >> Minor correction: Canonical has committed to releasing*most* of >> launchpad. There are two components, one of which is a fairly >> major piece (makes ppas possible), which are not being release

Re: Launchpad to be free

2009-02-27 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 02/27/2009 11:40 AM, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > Minor correction: Canonical has committed to releasing*most* of > launchpad. There are two components, one of which is a fairly > major piece (makes ppas possible), which are not being released. How odd. Launchpad isn't the crown jewel of the empir

Re: Launchpad to be free

2009-02-27 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Thursday 26 February 2009 22:50:52 Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > OK, so I guess I must have been sleeping, or people aren't as > interested in this as I am, but I just found out that Canonical has > committed to releasing Launchpad by 21 July 2009 under the GNU Affero > license v3 Minor co

Launchpad to be free

2009-02-26 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
OK, so I guess I must have been sleeping, or people aren't as interested in this as I am, but I just found out that Canonical has committed to releasing Launchpad by 21 July 2009 under the GNU Affero license v3 https://dev.launchpad.net/OpenSourcing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_