Re: namespace protection compatible with the OSD?

trademark, and avoiding that whole sticky copyright-of-API's issue altogether. Notice that what repels you about my proposal would still be possible in that case, e.g., MS suing Wine developers for trademark violation. At least with the proposed copyright, your right to implement comp

Re: OpenLDAP license

Dave J Woolley wrote: From: Frank LaMonica [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I agree with you completely. BSD is one of the only software licenses that allows PEOPLE the freedom they need to establish their own business objectives. I would go even further to say that there are only three

Re: Open Software Side Effects

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Re: IPL as a burden

Gregor, I like the terminology you used: "source included software (SIS)". SIS would be much better than a closed source, proprietary alternative, but I don't see any incentive for open source programmers to contribute to such a program. If a company went out of business or ceased to produce

Re: IPL as a burden

Andrew J Bromage wrote: G'day all. On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:17:41AM -0800, Frank LaMonica wrote: I like the terminology you used: "source included software (SIS)". SIS would be much better than a closed source, proprietary alternative, but I don't see any incentive for o

Re: Request for approval: IPL 1.0

Ralf, There are many entities who release what they claim are "OpenSource" licenses, but differ from the GPL or LGPL. Each such license places additional burdens on the entire open source community. Those burdens devolve from the inevitable interactions between software licensed under various

Re: IPL as a burden

. Regards, Frank Ralf Schwoebel wrote: Frank LaMonica wrote: but differ from the GPL or LGPL. Each such license places additional burdens on the entire open source community. Those burdens devolve from the inevitable Dear Frank, thanks for the input, but I have to disagree. The lack

Re: IPL as a burden

Manfred, Most users of software don't consider the availability of source code in their purchasing decisions. Why? Because they are not in the business of writing software, they are simply using an application as a tool. I suspect that most of the people on this list do not fit into that

Re: IPL as a burden

:( Frank Andrew J Bromage wrote: G'day all. On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 04:36:38PM -0800, Frank LaMonica wrote: Most users of software don't consider the availability of source code in their purchasing decisions. Why? Because they are not in the business of writing software, they are simply