Re: [License-discuss] [FTF-Legal] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses

2015-03-25 Thread Reincke, Karsten
and Open Source Licenses I will respond inline this time because the conversation got complicated. On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Reincke, Karsten k.rein...@telekom.de wrote: Many thanks for your detailed description. Indeed, I am sorry that we are reciprocally frustrated

Re: [License-discuss] [FTF-Legal] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses

2015-03-09 Thread Reincke, Karsten
. And their license did as much to achieve that goal as they thought they could under US law. On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 1:09 AM, Reincke, Karsten k.rein...@telekom.de wrote: Dear Mr. Tilly; On a first glance, your mail seems to be clear an reasonable. Unfortunately you are impeding the everyday work

Re: [License-discuss] [FTF-Legal] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses

2015-03-06 Thread Reincke, Karsten
law countries, until a legal precedent is set, there is no way to tell whether the courts will interpret the license in the way that the drafters hope they will. On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 7:16 AM, Reincke, Karsten k.rein...@telekom.de wrote: Dear Colleagues; In the past I

Re: [License-discuss] compliance resources

2014-03-04 Thread Reincke, Karsten
First of all: Many, many, thanks to Luis for initiating such OSI approved compliance pages! For companies and their managers it is very important to quickly get reliable answers which do not evoke fundamental costs. They get worry about complexitity and costs. Ever. So with respect to the

Re: [License-discuss] Pars pro toto: a fundamental(?) lack in (MIT licensed) (jquery) java-script packages?

2014-02-03 Thread Reincke, Karsten
://opensource.telekom.net/kreincke/kr-dtag-sign-de.txt ] -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: John Sullivan [mailto:jo...@fsf.org] Gesendet: Freitag, 3. Januar 2014 00:24 An: Reincke, Karsten Cc: license-discuss@opensource.org Betreff: Re: [License-discuss] Pars pro toto: a fundamental(?) lack

[License-discuss] Pars pro toto: a fundamental(?) lack in (MIT licensed) (jquery) java-script packages?

2014-01-02 Thread Reincke, Karsten
Question: Is it really necessary to add the MIT license to jquery for using this javascript library compliantly? Background: Javascript is a script language. Such libraries are embedded into our html pages (normally) for enabling the browsers of our customers to modify our html pages directly

Re: [License-discuss] changing wiki.os.o to xwiki

2014-01-02 Thread Reincke, Karsten
I am very sorry, but where can I create such an account? [Yes I know, the problem sits often in front of the keyboard. But does this knowledge solve the problem ;-) - so again, sorry for that silly question.] Best regards Karsten Reincke -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von:

[License-discuss] New stable OSCAd server

2014-01-02 Thread Reincke, Karsten
As you perhaps know, the (Telekom) Open Source Compliance Advisor [ http://opensource.telekom.net/oscad/ ] is listed in the OSI List of Licensing Tools [ http://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Projects/List+of+Licensing+Tools ]. The service idea of OSCAd is simple: Answer 5 questions. Select an open

Re: [License-discuss] Listing of licensing-related tools

2013-11-25 Thread Reincke, Karsten
Dear Lius; We have just created a new worldwide accessible instance of the OSCAd which now is running on a server which is intended to live for a very long time much longer - than the instance running on my private server. So, I think it would be fine to update the link in your list to that

[License-discuss] OSCAd - a tool for simplifying to use open source software compliantly

2013-08-14 Thread Reincke, Karsten
Dear colleagues; Recently, github has offered an open source license chooser for the project owners. It aims of simplifying the selection of an appropriate license. This tool was well appreciated -- not only by this OSI mailing list. As a large company in Germany, we also acclaim the existence

Re: [License-discuss] [FAQ] Is some PHP program Open Source?

2013-01-25 Thread Reincke, Karsten
[...] You can see the PHP source code, so it's Open Source, right? That could be misleading, since the PHP source code could mean https://github.com/php/php-src. How about: FooProgram is written in PHP, and I have the source code. Does that mean it's definitely open source?

[License-discuss] Freely published and hosted Open Source License Compendium [in an early state]

2012-03-21 Thread Reincke, Karsten
Dear Open Source (License) Community, As recently indicated, Deutsche Telekom AG (DTAG) has now published the initial, very early version of an Open Source License Compendium. It is a) licensed under the 'Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany'

[License-discuss] Logo for an (O)pen (S)ource (Li)cense (C)ompendium

2012-02-22 Thread Reincke, Karsten
Dear OSI Experts, Deutsche Telekom AG (DTAG) is writing an Open Source License Compendium, which we intend to be made available to the whole Open Source community. Large (IT) companies are particularily challenged by the quantity of licenses and their various versions. It is becoming quite

Re: [License-discuss] Logo for an (O)pen (S)ource (Li)cense (C)ompendium

2012-02-22 Thread Reincke, Karsten
)cense (C)ompendium [I think Karsten reposted this because there was a moderation delay on the original message, to which I have already responded on-list. Please use that original thread if possible.] -K Reincke, Karsten k.rein...@telekom.de writes: Deutsche Telekom AG (DTAG) is writing an Open