at the reaction to the NASA license, but I do
hope that one provides some stimulus for opensource.org to evaluate its
criteria. Open Source communities, especially governments using open
source might learn a thing or two.
This licensing thing is complicated ;-)
Richard Schilling
(who hopes he
On 2004.02.12 20:42 Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
Richard Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Such provisions are not allowed in an open source license.
Reporting
requirements are viewed as unreasonable limitations on the rights
of
licensees to do anything they want internally with open source
Maybe it's just me, but I keep getting back to open source software
licenses as a means to efficiently distribute software and allow people
ready access to the knowledge it represents, and not so much as a
mechanism to try a get license-savvy organizations to let their guard
down.
On
On 2004.02.13 07:38 Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
[snip]
I believe that is a misguided concept in open source licensing that
some hold to. Tracking the use of a product does not make a license
non-open source. Open Source licensing deals with accessibility and
cost, but tracking, per se, is not
On 2004.02.13 08:35 Alex Rousskov wrote:
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Richard Schilling wrote:
I post my response because so many times on this list people try to
play armchair lawyer and pick apart a license. It's not
appropriate
Richard,
Could you please point me to this list charter
, but I wanted to get these general questions on the table
first.
I think you not only misunderstood the license, but you may only have
succeeded in bringing out the armchair lawyers in force to debate these
misguided points. It just doesn't do anyone any good.
Richard Schilling
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license
to the country in which they are used
for them to be effective.
The World Trade Organization provides a common framework for licensing
and Intellectual Property standards. Since China is a member of the
WTO it should help address these types of international differences.
Richard Schilling
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