Re: [Haifux] License of Haifux lectures

2004-02-29 Thread Eli Billauer
Shachar Shemesh wrote: I'll have to think about that one. My Wine lectures already carry a license which is rather simplistic, but should answer whatever is needed. As for the security lectures - I'll have to look into those. If anyone needs to do anything specific with them, they are welcome

Re: [Haifux] License of Haifux lectures

2004-02-29 Thread Alon Altman
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Ron Artstein wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Maor Meir wrote: an ideal license as far as I am concerned would allow others to use my work convinient while making sure I get appropreate credit for my work but not allow anyone to attach my name to any junk some how

Re: [Haifux] License of Haifux lectures

2004-02-29 Thread Alon Altman
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Eli Billauer wrote: OK, let's realize one simple thing. If someone wants to take something from these lectures, they will. If they want to give credits, they will. If they don't want to, they wont. And if they don't have a license, they will be breaking the law.

Re: [Haifux] License of Haifux lectures

2004-02-29 Thread Eli Billauer
Alon Altman wrote: And that's exactly why we want the licenses to say that explictly, so that the one lecture written on company time and based on sources which do not want to be widely redistributed will not lead to people suing Haifux. The licensing should have been done in the first place

Re: [Haifux] License of Haifux lectures

2004-02-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Alon Altman wrote: You may not, however, claim you wrote these texts, due to the simple fact that you didn't. Even that is not 100% correct. I guess false advertising and libel laws may apply, but consider the following case: I take the classic BSD TCP/IP stack (public domain). I put in lots

Re: [Haifux] License of Haifux lectures

2004-02-29 Thread Orna Agmon
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Yoni Rabkin Katzenell wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong here. I'm going out on a limb and saying what is on my mind. No need to get offended, I'm just another non-lawyer playing the this is legal and that is not game with you all. Let us say that I have a work that is

Re: [Haifux] License of Haifux lectures

2004-02-28 Thread Maor Meir
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Orna Agmon wrote: Thanks to Alon altman, I went to http://creativecommons.org/license/ and created licenses according to people's requests. The lectures by the people who already replied carry links to the appropriate licenses. As you can see there, they give the

Re: [Haifux] License of Haifux lectures

2004-02-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Orr Dunkelman wrote: Well, such a license would not be free. I do not recall, however, that releasing the lecture slides under a free license was a prerequisit to giving a Haifux lecture. Shachar Well, it is not, you can keep whatever rights you want. We don't force no one to

Re: [Haifux] License of Haifux lectures

2004-02-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 02:49:14PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Well, such a license would not be free. I do not recall, however, that releasing the lecture slides under a free license was a prerequisit to giving a Haifux lecture. One practical test applies here: Can I use code snippents

Re: [Haifux] License of Haifux lectures

2004-02-27 Thread Orna Agmon
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Maor Meir wrote: Can anyone give here or point me to a short review of free licenses when talking about lecture slides on such like. I am fammilier with what it means to GPL/LGPL/ public domain license software, I am uncertain of how these licenses apply to anything

[Haifux] License of Haifux lectures

2004-02-26 Thread Orna Agmon
Hello lecturers and would be lecturers, Currently most of the lectures slides are displayed on-line, some even with their sources, but without any license. We have been approached for a permission to translate a lot of the material to Bulgarian. In order to be able to reply to this request (and