I have a problem that I would like y'all to consider. A company sells
datasets. They wish to cooperate with the opensource folks to the
extent that opensource folks can use a free copy of their dataset.
They would also like to be able to sell that same dataset to people
using proprietary
Russell Nelson wrote:
I have a problem that I would like y'all to consider. A company sells
datasets. They wish to cooperate with the opensource folks to the
extent that opensource folks can use a free copy of their dataset.
They would also like to be able to sell that same dataset to people
Russell Nelson scripsit:
I have a problem that I would like y'all to consider. A company sells
datasets. They wish to cooperate with the opensource folks to the
extent that opensource folks can use a free copy of their dataset.
They would also like to be able to sell that same dataset to
What's the problem? Simply specify that open source
applications can use
the data while any closed source application must get an appropriate.
It's open if it's open and closed if it's closed. The
Sleepycat license
is here
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/sleepycat.php
The Sleepycat
Lawrence E. Rosen scripsit:
The telephone book is
copyrightable, although the individual names and numbers aren't.
Say what? I thought the whole point of Feist v. Rural Tel. Serv. Co. was that
even compilation copyright doesn't apply to phone books, there being
insufficient creativity, even
The telephone book is
copyrightable, although the individual names and numbers aren't.
Say what? I thought the whole point of Feist v. Rural Tel.
Serv. Co. was that even compilation copyright doesn't apply
to phone books, there being insufficient creativity, even for
an IP court, in
John Cowan writes:
to insist (by legal, not technical, means) that your page on the WWW is
only to be read by people with Mozilla (etc.) browsers, and not IE browsers.
How do you manage to enforce such a thing?
Aha! Bing! That's how you do it! You publish the data in a special
open
Russell Nelson wrote:
Lawrence E. Rosen writes:
The Sleepycat license is vendor and product specific. It refers to DB
software (whatever that is) and includes the following warranty: THIS
SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY SLEEPYCAT SOFTWARE ``AS IS'' AND The
Sleepycat licenses is not reusable as
Russell Nelson scripsit:
They'd *really* like to get the best of both worlds: cooperate with
people who share and stick it to the people who don't (or, um, can't.)
As an employee of Reuters, which has been selling price-discriminated
information for over 150 years, there is no way for your
Russell Nelson scripsit:
Aha! Bing! That's how you do it! You publish the data in a special
open source format, which is unusable by Windows applications. Sure,
somebody in the open source world might create a format converter, but
why would they bother? Even if they did, you're
John Cowan writes:
Russell Nelson scripsit:
Aha! Bing! That's how you do it! You publish the data in a special
open source format, which is unusable by Windows applications. Sure,
somebody in the open source world might create a format converter, but
why would they bother?
Russell Nelson scripsit:
And that's
exactly what this customer wants: respect from the open source people
and money from the Windows people.
And which am I? I'm typing now on a Windows system that's ssh-ed to
a Linux system running elm. Does it matter if I use the proprietary
or the Cygwin
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