Re: [License-discuss] Software, licenses, and patents

Developer needs to pay a lawyer, I'm thinking... On Mar 12, 2015, at 1:52 PM, jonathon jonathon.bl...@gmail.com wrote: All: Need some help. Software was privately created. Developer wants to release under the GNU GPL 3.0. If you want to change the license, for your comments, do so.

Re: Which OS license should we use?

to attract, etc. Danese Cooper Clint Oram wrote: Hi there - We are building a professional open source company and are curious which open source license you suggest we use. Our goal is to build a profitable company around dual licensing - providing an open source version of our product and a commercial

Re: PCT (Patents, Copyright, Trademark) policy and Open Source

I know that some of the bigger firms in the US are explicitly copyrighting their briefs. D John Cowan wrote: Game theory lesson: file a patent on *anything* you're doing. I'm considering filing one on the particular way I walk down the hall after waking up in the morning. Why not? That

Re: For Approval: CUA Office Public License

to license the resulting work under an MPL license. If your project is 100% original code, then there can be no problem. So more specifically my question is, Is your project 100% original code, or are you intending to relicense someone's previous work?. Danese Cooper Patranun Limudomporn wrote

Re: For Approval: CUA Office Public License

Actually John I think you misunderstand the SISSL (see exerpt of section 3.1 below which states that source covered under the SISSL can ONLY be distributed under the SISSL and as well that additional restrictions may not be imposed). I notice further that MozPL 1.1 has a similar clause, so

Re: Differences between LGPL and SISSL ?

Hi, Sun wrote the SISSL, and uses LGPL as well (in a dual-license configuration) for OpenOffice.org, so I thought I should take a stab at explaining the differences. BTW, IANAL. SISSL and LGPL are both Free and Open Source licenses, meaning that they satisfy the requirements of both the Free

Re: Executions for piracy

No. It would discriminate against Zombies ;-) Danese On Thursday, June 6, 2002, at 07:10 PM, Lawrence E. Rosen wrote: When we find (piracy rings), we confiscate the products and the equipment they use to make them and turn to execute the persons or organizations involved, said the

Re: Off topic question re Export controls

to avoid non-compliance fines? Danese Cooper -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3

Re: SUN Binary Code License

. The community is already working on plugging in open and free alternatives for the proprietary functionality. Danese Cooper Sun Open Source

Re: Modifying existing licenses in minor ways

Adam, Sorry to take so long to answer you, but I've been travelling in Europe for the last 2 weeks with uncertain connectivitiy and I typically punt on my mail list emails until I get home...but Sun is very interested in having people use the SISSL (because we think its a really good license).

Re: License List -- as of 9-11-00

Here are two SPL diffs (a "hacker's" one that looks like a diff file, and a "lawyer's" one that looks like a redline) as well as the full text of the SPL. Thanks as always for your consideration. Danese - Original Message - From: Brian Behlendorf [EMAIL PROTECTE