Re: Can anyone say his or her software is open source?

2001-10-31 Thread Tina Gasperson
Chris Gray wrote: You'll also see that Going To The Media (tm) was proposed and rejected as a first approach: softly softly did it. I'll give them a call this morning, cordially mention some of the points made, and see what the reaction is. -t -- license-discuss archive is at

Re: Intel's proposed BSD + Patent License

2001-10-31 Thread Russell Nelson
Abe Kornelis writes: Russell Nelson wrote: [ Please review this license. If you do so promptly enough, we may be able to include it in tomorrow's board meeting. -russ ] -- This raises some questions. We recently had a lengthy discussion on the speed with which licenses are

Re: Intel's proposed BSD + Patent License

2001-10-31 Thread email
On Tue, 30 October 2001, David Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 30 October 2001 06:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: =Patents must be novel (that is, it must be different from all =previous inventions in some important way). = =Patents must be nonobvious (a surprising and significant

RE: Intel's proposed BSD + Patent License

2001-10-31 Thread DIETRICH Yann FTRD/VAT/ISS
what is the policy of opensource about patents ? and such license in opensource license ? what is the way ? I think it is important to integrate patents issues in such license. In fact, the main risk for a patent holder is not about licensing business but to not exhaust its patent rights in a

RE: Can anyone say his or her software is open source?

2001-10-31 Thread Lawrence E. Rosen
From: Matthew C. Weigel The Open Source Initiative owns the servicemark OSI Approved Open Source Software, and that is all. Not quite! The certification mark is OSI Certified and the goods are open source software. Thus the usage is: OSI Certified Open Source Software /Larry Rosen

Re: Intel's proposed BSD + Patent License

2001-10-31 Thread Chloe Hoffman
This is not legal advice. No client-attorney relationship is established. Speaking solely for myself. etc etc - Original Message - From: Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Kolb, Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Stamnes, Michelle [EMAIL

Re: Intel's proposed BSD + Patent License

2001-10-31 Thread Chloe Hoffman
This is not legal advice. No lawyer-client relationship is established. Speaking only for myself. etc etc. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Intel's proposed BSD + Patent License Date: 30 Oct 2001 18:24:32 -0800 On Tue, 30 October 2001, Russell Nelson wrote:

Re: Intel's proposed BSD + Patent License

2001-10-31 Thread Chloe Hoffman
This is not legal advice. No lawyer-client relationship is established. Speaking for myself only. etc etc From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Intel's proposed BSD + Patent License Date: 31 Oct 2001 06:22:39 -0800 On Tue, 30 October 2001, David Johnson wrote: On

Re: Intel's proposed BSD + Patent License

2001-10-31 Thread David Johnson
On Wednesday 31 October 2001 06:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But if I code some software, register it with the copyright office, put a LGPL license on it, put it on the web, and I DON'T get a patent for it, The key here is register it. I would also place a description of the software

Response to comments on Intel's proposed BSD+Patent license

2001-10-31 Thread Stamnes, Michelle
There seem to be a number of comments on the BSD+ Patent license we have proposed that claim that the license is not open because it only licenses a specific product; i.e., Linux. First, this is not true. The patent license that is extended is for ANY OS that is licensed under the GPL. It

Re: Response to comments on Intel's proposed BSD+Patent license

2001-10-31 Thread Matthew C. Weigel
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Stamnes, Michelle wrote: Finally, under the proposed license, you can use the software in Solaris or any other proprietary OS or in any other piece of software (in addition to the GPL based OS's). You just don't have a patent license; so you are no worse off than with

Re: Intel's proposed BSD + Patent License

2001-10-31 Thread Abe Kornelis
Russell Nelson wrote: Abe Kornelis writes: Russell Nelson wrote: [ Please review this license. If you do so promptly enough, we may be able to include it in tomorrow's board meeting. -russ ] -- This raises some questions. We recently had a lengthy discussion on the