Re: OpenSales -- DRAFT developers agreement

begin David Johnson quotation: > Yeeargh! You want me to assign all rights to you forever for ZERO > compensation? It's not too often one has to sign a contract in order to > make a donation. He has a point, Karsten. These days, when people come out of the blue and ask me to sign gratuitous leg

Re: OpenSales -- DRAFT developers agreement

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > OpenSales (my employer) is working on a set of supporting legal > documents. We've drafted a developers agreement as part of our code > submission process, and have posted it for review at > http://www.opensales.org/html/devagree.shtml Yeeargh!

OpenSales -- DRAFT developers agreement

OpenSales (my employer) is working on a set of supporting legal documents. We've drafted a developers agreement as part of our code submission process, and have posted it for review at http://www.opensales.org/html/devagree.shtml Developer agreements are something I've advocated for companies e

Re: Plan 9 license

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Chris Sloan wrote: > Is this really true? > > My understanding was that a legal entity can make private > modifications to GPL software and is allowed to keep those > modifications private, but if they choose to distribute the modified > version, they are required to distrib

Re: Plan 9 license

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 04:29:18PM -0700, Chris Sloan wrote: > On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 11:45:02AM -0700, David Johnson wrote: > [...] > > First, there is no requirement to give changes back to the orginal > > authors. If I modify gcc, for example, and give a copy to my friend, I > > am not require

RE: Plan 9 license

Many of you may find this interesting, if you have not read it already. Open Source Initiative President Eric Raymond publicly responded to DVD-CCA's erroneous statements made against the open source community in its recent California legal filings: The DVDCCA states in its brief at

Re: Plan 9 license

On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 11:45:02AM -0700, David Johnson wrote: [...] > First, there is no requirement to give changes back to the orginal > authors. If I modify gcc, for example, and give a copy to my friend, I > am not required to submit my modifications to anyone else. Second, > despite any lega

Re: Plan 9 license

On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, David Johnson wrote: > Hmmm, I'll have to disagree just a little bit. Although I am no fan of > corporations, and consider the fiction of corporations as legal persons > to be just that, fiction, attempts to eliminate this "advantage" cross > the line from public into private