Re: [License-discuss] Red Hat compilation copyright RHEL contract

2013-09-10 Thread Nick Yeates
From http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/corp/RH-3573_284204_TM_Gd.pdf At the same time, the combined body of work that constitutes Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® is a collective work which has been organized by Red Hat, and Red Hat holds the copyright in that collective work. Bradley Kuhn wrote at 15:46

Re: [License-discuss] Al Re: Red Hat compilation copyright RHEL contract

2013-09-10 Thread Luis Villa
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn bk...@ebb.org wrote: Quoting Luis Villa (l...@lu.is): We have dropped Al from the list, as we believe he is Alexander Terekhov, and he refused to deny it when asked. Rick Moen wrote at 18:28 (EDT) on Monday: The authorial 'voice' matches.

Re: [License-discuss] Red Hat compilation copyright RHEL contract

2013-09-10 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Nick Yeates (nyeat...@umbc.edu): I too am curious what this compilation licenseing is... Copyright law recognises the possiblity of an abstract property called a 'compilation copyright', that being the ownership interest gained by someone who _creatively_ collects and assembles other

Re: [License-discuss] Al Re: Red Hat compilation copyright RHEL contract

2013-09-10 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Quoting Luis Villa (l...@lu.is): We have dropped Al from the list, as we believe he is Alexander Terekhov, and he refused to deny it when asked. Rick Moen wrote at 18:28 (EDT) on Monday: The authorial 'voice' matches. Even so, I wasn't completely convinced that Al Foxtone was Terekhov

Re: [License-discuss] License incompatibility (was Re: Open source license chooser choosealicense.com

2013-09-10 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Till Jaeger wrote: Bradley and Larry have asked me to share my view as a European lawyer on the To be abundantly clear, it was wholly Larry's request to Till, so Larry deserves all the credit here for eliciting this wonderful and informative contribution to this list from Till! As I mentioned

Re: [License-discuss] License incompatibility (was Re: Open source license chooser choosealicense.com

2013-09-10 Thread Till Jaeger
Dear list, Bradley and Larry have asked me to share my view as a European lawyer on the question if linking of software components (necessarily) results in a derivative work as understood by the GPL. In a nutshell, my thoughts are the following (a more comprehensive overview can be found at

Re: [License-discuss] [License-review] Licence AGPL-3.0 Approval for Teampass

2013-09-10 Thread Eitan Adler
bcc: license-discuss to: license-review On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:55 AM, Nils Laumaillé n...@teampass.net wrote: Hello, I'm the developer of an open web tool (called Teampass) and would like to make it an official open-source tool. That's why I'm doing this request to the OSI board in order

Re: [License-discuss] License incompatibility (was Re: Open source license chooser choosealicense.com

2013-09-10 Thread Gwyn Murray
Hi Til: Thanks very much for this thoughtful analysis. Are you planning to post to the ftf list as well? G. On Sep 10, 2013, at 10:24 AM, Till Jaeger jae...@jbb.de wrote: Dear list, Bradley and Larry have asked me to share my view as a European lawyer on the question if linking of