If I legally aquire a piece of software then I have the legal right to use it
for any legal purpose. Period. As a resident and citizen of the United
States, this right is granted to me under both Copyright Law and the US
Commercial Code.
You do not aquire a piece of software, you just
Dear members of this list,
Searching for acceptable Open Source licenses, I stumbled across the
so-called Bixoft Public License. Apparantly, this License is still a
proposal (is it in the OSI License Approval process already?), but it seems
that the authors want to combine the strong points
[ please discuss this license. -russ ]
Greetings,
My name is Chris Knight, and I'm working with Beatnik towards the
release of their browser plugin as an open source project.
I have completed step 1, attaching the current proposed license in HTML
format as an attachment and making it
On Thursday 25 April 2002 06:49 am, Forrest J. Cavalier III wrote:
On the other hand, if the user does not agree to the license, what harm
is there in allowing them to continue to use it? I'm being serious here.
What harm is there? You gain nothing from their assent. They can't
Quoting Chris Knight ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
[ please discuss this license. -russ ]
For listmembers' convenience, I've converted the licence text into plain
ASCII, in the process fixing quite a number of goofy Microsoft-specific
high-bit special characters (weird quotation marks, stylised
At 12:57 PM 4/25/2002 -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
For listmembers' convenience, I've converted the licence text into plain
ASCII, in the process fixing quite a number of goofy Microsoft-specific
high-bit special characters (weird quotation marks, stylised apostrophes
and dashes, copyright and
Rick Moen writes:
Submitters should ideally do their own text-janitorial work.
We specifically ask them for HTML, because it's easier to remove
markup than create it from scratch.
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-russ nelson http://russnelson.com | Economic ignoramuses find
Crynwr sells support for free
Quoting Russell Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
We specifically ask them for HTML, because it's easier to remove
markup than create it from scratch.
Personal opinion, but very widely held: HTML in e-mail is obnoxious.
It should be confined to the Web.
Observation: The OSL submissions
Quoting Chris Knight ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
It was an attachment, not the body of the email.
I actually wasn't discussing your e-mail, at all: I was making a
suggestion for the OSI Web site. One that strikes me as a no-brainer,
in fact.
Even a purist can't complain about that, unless they
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