Re: The Copyright Act preempts the GPL

Putting aside the issue that a 3 line computer program may lack the minimal indicia of originality to be copyrightible in the first place, strictly speaking, what Bob may do with his derivative work (if that one line code is copyrightible) may depend upon whether Bob wants to distribute the work

For Approval: Simple Permissive License

Tell us which existing OSI-approved license is most similar... The Simple Permissive License is most similar to The MIT License. The MIT License does not suffice for my needs because it is too long and complex for the programmers that I work with to read. As one example of this problem,

apache license 2.0 for consideration

i don't think anyone has submitted it yet. the apache software foundation approved version 2.0 of its licence, and would like to submit it for osi approval. it's online at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 and i'm attaching the text version to this message. it is our belief that this

Re: For Approval: Simple Permissive License

Zooko O'Whielacronx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Simple Permissive License is most similar to The MIT License. The MIT License does not suffice for my needs because it is too long and complex for the programmers that I work with to read. Personally, I recommend that you tell your