Practitioners: How serious is this ?
Flaws drill holes in open-source repository
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-5216353.html
Cheers. dj
Don B Jarrell[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Digital Thinking Inc.512 266 7126
I think all the feedback on this license is great and
on-point. I want to comment on the broader perspective
of how you got headed in this direction. And, IANAL,
TINLA. Amen.
We have seen many licenses on this list (and I have seen
even more from clients, potential clients and social
OK, first, IANAL, TINLA, TSNBCAUPL. (I am not a lawyer,
this is not legal advice, this should not be construed
as unlicensed practice of law).
What I offer is business commentary, that is, what I
would do in my business in these circumstances, or
what I would advise my business consulting
office
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From: David Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 11:19 PM
To: Don Jarrell; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Lawrence E. Rosen
Fear not, they won't stop being open source.
/Larry Rosen
Please explain. If copyright expiration ends proprietary
license terms, why does it not end open source license terms ?
Aren't both based in the same right to determine
Regarding 'open' (no pun intended) question to RMS about compatibility of
AFL to GPL -
I visited with Richard last evening; he's in Austin for SXSW Interactive.
I conveyed this question to him. Any of you who have carried on a
conversation
with Richard can understand the constrained,
I believe Nathan has hit upon a problem not in Open
Source but in our language and society as we have
accepted distortion of the word discrimination.
Purely it only means 'to distinguish or delineate'
(IANW), but we tend to load the connotation with
'unreasonably' or 'illegally'. In looking at
I am not a lawyer either, but I have been working
with the practical side of licensing with small
and very large corps for 20+ years. So I guess you
could say I am less uncomfortable with legalese than
some other non-attorneys. Still, IANAL and TINLA.
I would advise any client of mine NOT to use
IMHO, I think we all know well-documented source
code when we see it.
Excuse me, but is the OSD being written for the
esteemed and talented frequent posters to this
list or as a guideline for a wider audience ?
Cheers. dj
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This, IMO, is one of the messiest parts of most
alleged Open Source licenses. When one sees a
collection of terms from the several contributors
in a chain, does that mean the user has a licensee-
licensor relationship with each of them ? What
about conflicts between those sets of terms ? Is
Since I am new, I would normally lurk for a while,
but I am familiar with this issue in some historical,
practical arguments. By way of introduction, I should
clarify that I am neither hands-on programmer (now) nor
attorney, but I have done a lot of licensing,
development, etc in the past. And, I
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