Instead of putting it in the license, why not just kindly suggest (in your
download page or README) that users share their experiences? You can also
offer a paid support plan or license for commercial applications.
You could also use a separate license for noncommercial uses (Highcharts
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Tahoe-LAFS is licensed to the public under the Transitive Grace Period
Public
On Thursday, 15 August 2013, Richard Stallman wrote:
Tahoe-LAFS is licensed to the public under the Transitive Grace
Period Public Licence 1.0 [*]. Tahoe-LAFS is Free and Open
software. The Transitive Grace Period Public Licence is an
Open Source licence.
Is that
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 09:23:23PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
Tahoe-LAFS is licensed to the public under the Transitive Grace Period
Public
Licence 1.0 [*]. Tahoe-LAFS is Free and Open software. The Transitive
Grace
Period Public Licence is an Open Source licence.
Is
Eben Moglen wrote:
This isn't a matter for copyright licensing, because licenses are, in J.L.
Austin's term,
performative utterances. They are present acts of permission, not
declarations of
future intention, like testaments. There's no point in a copyright holder
writing a
license that says
On Friday, 16 August 2013, Lawrence Rosen wrote:
In the more traditional legal analysis, regardless of the wisdom of
such a license, we prefer to treat written promises relating to
future actions as binding upon the person making the offer -- at
least where there is some form of
Hi, Pam-
Right place; right comment. I'm a bit out of pocket right now with
regards to passwords for the site (a long, sad story involving
multiple computers and a lot of travel ;) but will fix it at some
point.
[Anyone else with access to the CMS on the list should feel free to
fix as well :)
Hi, all-
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Hi there, Fred Trotter:
Thanks for working on this topic and for citing my Transitive Grace Period
Public Licence [1, 2].
1. https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/COPYING.TGPPL.rst
2. https://tahoe-lafs.org/~zooko/tgppl.pdf
I have one objection to raise right at the beginning:
Bradley M. Kuhn scripsit:
Richard Fontana pointed out in his OSCON talk that license choosers
generally make political statements about views of licenses. He used
the GitHub chooser as an example, which subtly pushes people toward
permissive licenses.
Surely he jests. Choosealicense.com
Larry, my dear man, how do you arrange to get specific performance
of this promise to license in future once the underlying original license
is revoked?
How did it get revoked?
This is quite simple, Eben: By dealing with this as a standard two-party
contractual arrangement, the person who
Yes, it is simple. I am asserting that in no meaningful sense is your
agreement enforceable, if during the period of the proprietary
agreement your promisor revokes and refuses to issue the program under
free license. You are implying that the remedy for breach of the
contract in that situation
In a strange way, Eben, I relish our occasional online discussions, if only
to see how long it will take you to compare me with a first-year law
student. :-)
Voilà! Less than a day!
/Larry
Lawrence Rosen
Rosenlaw Einschlag, a technology law firm (www.rosenlaw.com)
3001 King Ranch Rd.,
No doubt my nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's
hand.
But the resemblance is hardly accidental.
Eben
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Tahoe-LAFS is also available under the GPL, at your option.
That makes
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Suppose developer Ds give the code to organization O, and signs a
contract with O
Dear Eben,
You wanted to cut short our conversation, but I believe it is important to
clarify the arguments you made about the enforceability, through specific
performance, of a software license.
It is ironic that you wrote: Specific performance, a mandatory remedial
order to perform a promise,
On Saturday, 17 August 2013, Richard Stallman wrote:
Suppose developer Ds give the code to organization O, and signs a
contract with O giving O the right to distribute that code under the
GNU GPL starting at a future date F. Is that something O can rely on?
Is there any way for D to
Eben Moglen explained:
Yes, that's the alternative I originally recommended and that we
have been discussing Larry Rosen's objection to. The agreement
between D and O might be one designed to create a fiduciary
relationship, of special trust and accountability, to which the
legal system
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