On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'll have to give it a closer read, but I believe there's also a
definition of what it is to be an API in the Sun version of the license.
I'm talking through my hat as I'm not looking at SISSL at the moment.
No need to speculate, it's online and in
To the best of my knowledge, this is grossly incorrect. There is
nothing within the US copyright statute which prevents an author or
copyrightholder from ceding rights to a work. One of many corroborating
references: http://www.benedict.com/basic/public/public.htm. A Google
or other online
Rod Dixon wrote:
The copyright owner does not have a *choice*
as to whether to put/transfer/cede a work to the public domain.
However, the U.S. Copyright office accepts and registers affidavits
by the author of a work that the author has abandoned copyright.
That suggests that the defense of
Something to keep in mind.
For a company, when it comes down to
1.) Pay nobody for advice and have your open-source license fall into
a black hole", or
2.) Pay nobody and have your staff lawyers who were going to be there
anyway draft up a nice closed-source license from all the
boiler-plate
begin Derek J. Balling quotation:
Something to keep in mind.
For a company, when it comes down to
1.) Pay nobody for advice and have your open-source license fall into
a black hole", or
2.) Pay nobody and have your staff lawyers who were going to be there
anyway draft up a nice
Rick Moen wrote:
You know, I don't speak for anyone else (which is why I can speak my
mind) -- but, _if_ I were a volunteer OSI Board member, busy with an
otherwise productive life, and I saw the time-wastage, the endless
recapitulation of eminently FAQable material, [...]
Good idea. Where
begin Tom Hull quotation:
Good idea. Where is the FAQ?
There isn't yet one. Ideally, such a FAQ should be maintained by
someone who can act/speak _for_ OSI. I have no standing with that
group.
(An advertised, searchable list archive would also be helpful.)
--
Cheers,
-Original Message-
From: Lawrence E. Rosen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Obviously the OSI board cannot review all these licenses immediately. The
license reviewers must set some priority. We welcome suggestions
on how to
prioritize this list. For example, if your license is
The continued vitality of the defense of abandonment is in serious doubt
except for, perhaps, copyright disputes occurring under the
pre-1976 Copyright Act
(the Copyright Act of 1909).
Of course, even if one were to believe that copyright ownership could
still be abandoned under the current
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 09:52:26AM -0400, Rod Dixon wrote:
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To the best of my knowledge, this is grossly incorrect. There is
nothing within the US copyright statute which prevents an author or
copyrightholder from ceding rights to a work. One
Rod Dixon wrote:
If a copyright owner were
to bring a copyright infringement suit, the filing of the lawsuit would
tend to diminish the plausibility or persuasiveness of the defense that
the plaintiff intended to abandon her copyright (abandoment required
intent).
Consider a work created
At the outset I think your hypos generally indicate exactly why a system
that characterizes works in the public domain only by operation of law is
superior, in clarity and consistency, than systems that permit works to
enter the public domain by general declarations or vague dedications.
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