, Wormtongue, you have done what you could for your true master. Some
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Christopher D. Coppola scripsit:
Thanks for your consideration,
IMHO this license is obviously Open Source, consisting of a trivial
patch to the JOSL, and should be fast-tracked by OSI.
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Any legal document draws most of its
undefined term. You may commit the work to memory, or (most scurvily)
use its ideas in your own code with no attribution whatsoever.
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appropriate. Copyright being a creature of statute and incorporeal,
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Otherwise, the license looks fine. But it doesn't seem to do anything
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relicensed.
What is meant is that derivative works in non-textual form can't be
licensed under a copyleft license, for an appropriate definition of
copyleft.
It would be better to word this must not rather than may not, which
latter is subject to misreading.
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the
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Mike Wattier scripsit:
yeah.. and IMHO this is the very reason that many who want to support the Open
Source community, will not do so. It is slowly becoming a cheerleading
section for the GPL.
Nonsense. Tell that to Mr. Behlendorf, open and notorious OSI supporter
and promulgator of a
, or enforcing.
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importance of freedom-to-code vs. freedom-to-use-
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force method of making sure there are no proprietary improvements.
I don't see how you can have it both ways.
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, and unbiased news and
information. *That's* our commercial product. Implying that people who
write the software that supports it are doodling is insulting
and unwarranted.
/flame
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, business means a a widget producing business
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kingdom.
Where, in turn, widget means not any commodity (as is usual in discussions
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alternative
that suits my needs and the needs of others.
Your license is fine, once the ambiguities are squeezed out, and I recommend
that the OSI approve it. I don't believe your advocacy is founded on sound
argumentation, which is an entirely independent point. This list discusses
both.
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two works, one under
the GPL and the other under the EIOL! The GPL licensor would claim
(rightly IMHO) that the derivative work was unlicensed.
TINLA (obviously).
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discriminates against people who write proprietary
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--Ogden
David Presotto scripsit:
As an aside, it might have been less inflamatory if the license has said ``if
source of the program and any derivatives is distributed under an inheritive
license (e.g. GPL), it must ALSO be distributed under this license.''
Then Sean would always have access to
can
link this with anything you want, often does the work of the LGPL
more simply.
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Dievas dave dantis; Dievas duos duonos --Lithuanian proverb
Deus dedit dentes; deus dabit panem --Latin version thereof
freedom
for people who aren't software developers. That's why *I* use it.
Speak your experience as your truth.
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Humpty Dump Dublin squeaks through
or limited by law or that
is applicable alike to persons of every sex, color, race, religion,
ancestry, national origin, disability, or medical condition.
This doesn't seem to parse. Can you expound, or at least unpack it a bit?
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described by it, unless the software incorporates
non-trivial parts of the documentation.
TINLA.
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language causes
my eyes to glaze rather rapidly.)
Notwithstanding this point, I think you should at least consider the
Academic Free License, because of its protection against patent
poison pills.
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Humpty Dump Dublin hath a horrible vorse
But for all his kinks English / And his irismanx brogues
this, but it rarely happens and is generally
considered a Bad Thing. Forks which remain split and where both
branches have substantial life are very few: GNU Emacs/XEmacs, bison/byacc,
FreeBSD/NetBSD, NetBSD/OpenBSD.
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not. The MPL, like the SISSL, provides for reuse of unmodified
files of source code in derivative works under any license. It requires
distribution of source only of those files which have been modified, if any.
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[P]olice
derivative works.
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from the licensee,
not a whole series of them.
If this problem is fixed, I see no problems with OSI approval. IANAL,
TINLA, IANA OSI board member either.
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under U.S. law is
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. IANAL, TINLA.
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For those who haven't seen this yet:
http://blog.qiken.org/archives/000196.html
LOTR meets the lawyers
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, but
by a condition imposed on the exercise of the license.
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[P]olice in many lands are now complaining that local arrestees are insisting
on having their Miranda rights read to them, just like perps in American TV
cop shows. When it's
Brian Behlendorf scripsit:
I love it. They filed a patent for a process my company had a working
example of long before the date of filing, and unlike these guys, we
actually implemented it and ran it. We don't run our site, SourceXchange,
any longer, but it's still infuriating to see IBM
right to perform it publicly.
No further permission is required.
If you think otherwise, please point to the relevant sentence of the
Copyright Act or case law.
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Be yourself. Especially do not feign a working knowledge of RDF
a collective work. What you need is the author of a novel successfully
suing for copyright infringement those who pirate a movie based on the
novel, or a translation of the novel, or something of the sort.
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Mr. Lane, if you ever wish
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copies of a movie based on it.
IANAL TINLA
Likewise. Infinite are the arguments of mages.
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aren't simply collections,
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within the U.S. for works written by civil servants, as is the
law. That implies that copyright *is* claimed for such works *outside*
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a query about it last night.
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-1976 law, are specially intended to arrange for the rights to
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This is not legal advice, etc.
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provides an implied patent
license.) A specific MIT-licensed program may be GPL-incompatible,
but MIT-licensed programs as a class are not, because they don't
impose any requirements incompatible with the GPL's.
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it will inevitably
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Monday we watch-a Firefly's house, but he no come out. He wasn't home.
Tuesday we go to the ball game, but he fool us. He no show up
to convince
corporate lawyers of this, hence the proliferation at opensource.org;
nevertheless, standard licenses make for simplicity and uniformity,
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand
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Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land
Marc van Woerkom scripsit:
could you have a look at the Erlang Public License, which covers
the Open Source version of Ericsson's Erlang language?
It's absolutely just a variant of the MPL, with a new name, a different
controlling law, and otherwise still as Open Source as ever. No worries.
Kerry Watson scripsit:
Anyway, I am trying to find out if it is acceptable to write a book
about an open source software program? I am talking about a users'
manual for a program that states that it is subject to the OSI terms and
license. I can't tell from the language whether a book would
not believe (IANAL, TINLA) that the public licenses Lawyerdude
refers to have anything to do with the public licenses of the open
source world. He seems to be talking about the license to practice
law which he no longer has.
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In that case, I suggest you consider the Open Source License or the GPL,
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Micropayment advocates mistakenly believe that efficient allocation of
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Original line from The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold:
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English-to-Russian-to-English mangling thereof: Only
to antagonize the
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as opposed to the definition, of infringement are quite definite,
and fearsome. (So is the price of lawyers.)
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the point,
but there is no debate in the copyright sense.
Since none of the relevant licenses permits copying but forbids
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Kevin S. Clarke scripsit:
It would need separate approval, but I see nothing open source about it.
Did you drop a not here? ;-)
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Sure, but it seems to me better to make that self-enforcing as a result of
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David Woolley scripsit:
I believe that may be true in the USA. Running a computer program is
restricted under UK copyright law.
Technically it is copying in the U.S. too, but there is an automatic license
to do such copying, as long as your possession of the software is lawful.
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John
than creative enough to
be an object of copyright.
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that.
IANAL; TINLA; YYY.
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of NDISwrapper, the Windows drivers that it wraps are
licensed to run on the hardware they are being used on, since almost
every PC is licensed to run Windows whether it actually does so or not.
IANAL, TINLA.
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Luis Villa scripsit:
Is there a full/formal list of those abbreviations somewhere? Would be
useful to be able to point at. Thanks!
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