Re: BSD / GPL compatibility

2000-02-15 Thread David Johnson
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Alex Nicolaou wrote: In general, any "meta-use" of a portion of the source code should be acceptable, that is, any re-use of a portion of the code whose purpose is to provide commentary or insight into the original and not replace the use or function of the original.

RE: BSD / GPL compatibility - Derived vs. Fair Use

2000-02-15 Thread David Johnson
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: 2.To focus on discussion of derivative works. Making derivative works is a right reserved to the original copyright holder, and so a license is indeed required to make one. And this is all provided for under copyright law. In particular,

Re: License Approval Process

2000-02-14 Thread David Johnson
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: I see a lot of people asking on this list why their licenses are not being approved. I have to agree with most if not all of your points. There are getting to be too many licenses. And most of the ones being submitted are merely minor modifications

Re: License Approval Process

2000-02-14 Thread David Johnson
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Chris F Clark wrote: The list is supposedly part of a process to certify licenses as "open source". There seems to be no indication that they will ever certify any new licenses (other than from "very large corporations") as qualifying. Among the licenses that have not

Re: Alternate Route Open Source Licenses

2000-01-26 Thread David Johnson
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Brice, Richard wrote: The full text of the Alternate Route licenses can be found at http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/eesc/bridge/alternateroute/licenses.htm http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/eesc/bridge/alternateroute/licenses.htm One quick comment: in section 5 of the AROSL, at the

Re: Sun Community Source License Principles

1999-12-09 Thread David Johnson
On Sun, 05 Dec 1999, Philipp Gühring wrote: The following quote is from: http://www.sun.com/981208/scsl/principles.html "These important differences and other details make Community Source a powerful combination of the best of the proprietary licensing and the more contemporary open source

Re: Dual Licensing

1999-11-28 Thread David Johnson
at they do not correspond well to any group at all, other than online posters. David Johnson

Re: rights and freedoms

1999-10-14 Thread David Johnson
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, L. Peter Deutsch wrote: That's the issue in a nutshell. The Free Software movement verges on taking the position that the only legitimate way for programmers to make money is to provide services. I just installed the commercial abiWord word processor yesterday. It

Re: rights and freedoms

1999-10-14 Thread David Johnson
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: David Johnson wrote: and 4) Just sell the software. Enough people will buy it to support the developers. Yeah, right! Why give $59.95 to AbiSource when I can get it for $2 from cheapbytes along with everything else on a Linux distro

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