[License-discuss] License which requires watermarking? (Attribution Provision)

2012-12-18 Thread ldr ldr
I am looking for a BSD/MIT style license with a clause requiring attribution. E.g.: This project was created by Google therefore should say on all interface screens Foo, a project by Google or if a fork: Bar, a fork of the Google project Foo with a link from Foo back to its github repo. Can you

Re: [License-discuss] APPROVAL: Universal Public License Agreement v1

2012-12-18 Thread John Cowan
BIRGUL KARAMIZRAK scripsit: Distribution Distribution of the original or the copy of the source code by natural or legal persons that accept this license is subject to the approval of the copyright holder. (manufacturer) This license is not an Open Source license, because it contravenes

Re: [License-discuss] License which requires watermarking? (Attribution Provision)

2012-12-18 Thread Johnny Solbu
On Monday 17. December 2012 02.14, ldr ldr wrote: Can you recommend such a license? There is the BSD 2-Clause License. It says in part in the first paragraph «... provided that the following conditions are met:» Then add your special attribution requirements as part of the license conditions.

Re: [License-discuss] License which requires watermarking? (Attribution Provision)

2012-12-18 Thread Karl Fogel
ldr ldr stackoverflowuse...@gmail.com writes: E.g.: This project was created by Google therefore should say on all interface screens Foo, a project by Google or if a fork: Bar, a fork of the Google project Foo with a link from Foo back to its github repo. I'm not sure a license that has such

Re: [License-discuss] License which requires watermarking? (Attribution Provision)

2012-12-18 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Johnny Solbu (joh...@solbu.net): You can also look at the various «Creative Commons» licenses. If I'm not mistaken, all of them require attribution. They require keeping copyright notices intact and provide the name of the original author, etc., which credit may be 'implemented in any

Re: [License-discuss] APPROVAL: Universal Public License Agreement v1

2012-12-18 Thread David Woolley
BIRGUL KARAMIZRAK wrote: Signing of the Contract The license will take effect upon signing personally by the license provider and the licensee. The signature owner is required to be authorized to sign on behalf of the legal person. This conflicts with the use of the term public in the

Re: [License-discuss] License which requires watermarking? (Attribution Provision)

2012-12-18 Thread ldr ldr
Thanks, I've seen it in a few open-source projects, such as: http://www.nopcommerce.com/licensev3.aspx http://www.mvcforum.com/license But this isn't well received by the open-source community, and would not be OSI approved? On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Rick Moen r...@linuxmafia.com wrote:

Re: [License-discuss] License which requires watermarking? (Attribution Provision)

2012-12-18 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting ldr ldr (stackoverflowuse...@gmail.com): Thanks, I've seen it in a few open-source projects, such as: http://www.nopcommerce.com/licensev3.aspx http://www.mvcforum.com/license Those are not open source. Moreover: But this isn't well received by the open-source community, and

Re: [License-discuss] License which requires watermarking? (Attribution Provision)

2012-12-18 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting John Cowan (co...@mercury.ccil.org): It all hangs on the word reasonable in the definition of permitted restrictions of type 7b: Requiring preservation of specified reasonable legal notices or author attributions in that material or in the Appropriate Legal Notices displayed by works

Re: [License-discuss] License which requires watermarking? (Attribution Provision)

2012-12-18 Thread Richard Fontana
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 08:58:16PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: As you have noticed, some firms have now adopted the clever if sleazy -- my interpretation -- ploy of purporting to use GPLv3 but sliding a mandatory badgeware notice requirement for every single UI page by claiming those are

Re: [License-discuss] License which requires watermarking? (Attribution Provision)

2012-12-18 Thread Richard Fontana
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 09:17:11PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: An FSF author involved with the GPLv3 draft speaks to FSF's intent (FWIW): http://gplv3.fsf.org/additional-terms-dd2.html A GPL licensee may place an additional requirement on code for which the licensee has or can give

Re: [License-discuss] License which requires watermarking? (Attribution Provision)

2012-12-18 Thread Richard Fontana
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:34:33AM -0500, Richard Fontana wrote: I believe that the OSI's approval of CPAL (the license you may be intentionally not naming) was, in retrospect, wrongly decided. To be fair, and to spread the blame around, the FSF's decision that CPAL is a free software license