Re: [License-discuss] System 76's BeanBooks Public License v1.0

2013-09-29 Thread John Cowan
Ken Arromdee scripsit: 4.3 - Commercial distribution of the Software requires a trademark license agreement and you may be required to pay. Using the Software within a corporation or entity is not considered commercial distribution. This license does not grant

Re: [License-discuss] System 76's BeanBooks Public License v1.0

2013-09-29 Thread Luis Villa
I have not had time to do this myself but it is probably a reasonable idea. Luis On Sep 19, 2013 7:40 PM, Bradley M. Kuhn bk...@ebb.org wrote: It seems that at least a few OSI directors seem think System 76's BeanBooks Public License may be at least a bit problematic under OSD (or, at least,

Re: [License-discuss] System 76's BeanBooks Public License v1.0

2013-09-20 Thread Pamela Chestek
On 9/18/2013 4:08 PM, Ken Arromdee wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, John Cowan wrote: Sec. 4.3 strikes me as actually conceptually somewhat interesting, inasmuch as many commercial lawyers have argued that this type of clause is often implicit in software that contains a protect trademark embedded

Re: [License-discuss] System 76's BeanBooks Public License v1.0

2013-09-18 Thread Richard Fontana
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:50:29 -0700 Luis Villa l...@lu.is wrote: I just wanted to raise this thread again; I'm interested in discussion/comment from others but have had only the barest time to skim. (Same here.) Sec. 3.3 strikes me as odd; essentially a very strong CLA baked into the

Re: [License-discuss] System 76's BeanBooks Public License v1.0

2013-09-18 Thread Richard Fontana
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 01:06:31 -0400 Richard Fontana font...@sharpeleven.org wrote: Submit is susceptible to a broad reading that would give System76 a privileged license relative to everyone else (somewhat like the old NPL). Re-reading this, I may not have been sufficiently clear. Section

Re: [License-discuss] System 76's BeanBooks Public License v1.0

2013-09-18 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, John Cowan wrote: Sec. 4.3 strikes me as actually conceptually somewhat interesting, inasmuch as many commercial lawyers have argued that this type of clause is often implicit in software that contains a protect trademark embedded in the software and not removed by a

Re: [License-discuss] System 76's BeanBooks Public License v1.0

2013-09-17 Thread Luis Villa
I just wanted to raise this thread again; I'm interested in discussion/comment from others but have had only the barest time to skim. Sec. 3.3 strikes me as odd; essentially a very strong CLA baked into the license. Not non-free/open, per se, at least at first glance - just... odd? Sec. 4.3

Re: [License-discuss] System 76's BeanBooks Public License v1.0

2013-09-17 Thread Luis Villa
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Luis Villa l...@lu.is wrote: Sec. 4.3 strikes me as actually conceptually somewhat interesting, inasmuch as many commercial lawyers have argued that this type of clause is often implicit in software that contains a protect trademark embedded in the software

Re: [License-discuss] System 76's BeanBooks Public License v1.0

2013-09-17 Thread John Cowan
Luis Villa scripsit: Sec. 3.3 strikes me as odd; essentially a very strong CLA baked into the license. Not non-free/open, per se, at least at first glance - just... odd? Section 3 as a whole is a CLA; it only applies to you if you make a Contribution, which requires that you submit your work

[License-discuss] System 76's BeanBooks Public License v1.0

2013-08-28 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
A colleague of mine asked for my comment on the following license: https://beansbooks.com/home/opensource (included in full text below for the archives). It's reminiscent of the Yahoo! Public License and Zimbra Public License. I notice that it seems that the Zimbra Public License and Yahoo! are