On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Rick Moen r...@linuxmafia.com wrote:
I am asking this mailing list for help crafting a proprietary license. It
is certainly ironic but not at all off-topic.
Speaking for myself (and I am only a friendly hanger-on to OSI), I have
no problem with you asking.
Apologies in advance if this is the wrong list --
I was looking at the Open Source Licenses page
(http://opensource.org/licenses) and had one moment of ambiguity -- the
headings are Popular Licenses and Other Approved Licenses. I found
the word other to be misleading; the licenses that are
Ghostscript is now AGPLd, for what its worth...
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Lawrence Rosen lro...@rosenlaw.com wrote:
Fred Trotter wrote:
First, I would like for the OSI and FSF people on this list to consider
some kind of new status for a license, like OSI tolerated
or OSI Not Open
[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider
[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,
[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example.
Unfortunately the open source world has not been very amenable to things
that
Eben Moglen scripsit:
Whatever the truth of the adage may be, the point for us is that
none of this has anything to do with licensing. Fred Trotter was
actually asking a question, to which the correct answer is: You don't
need a license to make something free software at a certain date in
On Wednesday, 14 August 2013, John Cowan wrote:
This procedure is not equivalent, except in the long run, to the kind
of license Fred Trotter wants, because its effect on particular copies
is different. Suppose that Alice sells Bob the source code to Yoyomat,
a proprietary program with
Fred,
fred trotter wrote at 03:52 (EDT):
I have been burned pretty badly by people who literally rewrote
sections of the GPL to suit them and still called it GPL that I know
that some people will try those shenanigans.
The FSF is quite vigilant about handling situations like this -- it's
one
Sorry for posting a month late on this thread [I hadn't poked into the
folder for this list in some time], but I didn't see a consensus and
wanted to add my $0.02.
Luis Villa wrote on 16 July:
In the long-term, I'd actually like OSI to promote a license chooser
of its own. But in the meantime
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