Re: [License-discuss] 3-clause BSD with additional clause forbidding key disclosure

2015-02-06 Thread Lawrence Rosen
does not. /Larry -Original Message- From: Zluty Sysel [mailto:zluty.sy...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2015 5:16 AM To: license-discuss@opensource.org Subject: Re: [License-discuss] 3-clause BSD with additional clause forbidding key disclosure Hi there, On Thu

Re: [License-discuss] 3-clause BSD with additional clause forbidding key disclosure

2015-02-06 Thread RafaƂ Pocztarski
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Zluty Sysel zluty.sy...@gmail.com wrote: Could you however elaborate on why the additional restriction would not be OSD-compliant? Do you think it could be reworded so that it does become compliant? The Open Source Definition by Open Source Initiative (as well

Re: [License-discuss] 3-clause BSD with additional clause forbidding key disclosure

2015-02-06 Thread Zluty Sysel
Hi there, On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Simon Phipps webm...@opensource.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Zluty Sysel zluty.sy...@gmail.com wrote: The issue however is that there is a certain reluctance not to include this in the source code license, since one of the .c files

Re: [License-discuss] 3-clause BSD with additional clause forbidding key disclosure

2015-02-05 Thread David Woolley
On 05/02/15 11:27, Simon Phipps wrote: Surely this is a matter to handle via a 1:1 contract with your customer? I have doubts that the additional restriction you are proposing is OSD-compliant. In fact, the current wording seems to share a problem with software patents, in that you can

Re: [License-discuss] 3-clause BSD with additional clause forbidding key disclosure

2015-02-05 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Wednesday 4. February 2015 15.37, Zluty Sysel wrote: The issue here is one of trust from stakeholders that do not have enough familiarity with the open source movement. They do not need to know the technical issues. Microsofts shareholders do not know how Microsoft distributes any secrets

Re: [License-discuss] 3-clause BSD with additional clause forbidding key disclosure

2015-02-05 Thread Zluty Sysel
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Gervase Markham g...@mozilla.org wrote: On 03/02/15 17:21, Zluty Sysel wrote: I have a set of source files that I would like to open source using a standard 3-Clause BSD but my company would not like that a certain set of Private Keys used for authentication be

Re: [License-discuss] 3-clause BSD with additional clause forbidding key disclosure

2015-02-05 Thread Zluty Sysel
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Cinly Ooi cinly@gmail.com wrote: I would probably refactor the code so the authentication key (or routine) goes into a separate file (authentication file) and distribute that file under a different license. Everything except that will go open source and

Re: [License-discuss] 3-clause BSD with additional clause forbidding key disclosure

2015-02-05 Thread Cinly Ooi
On 5 February 2015 at 17:33, Johnny A. Solbu joh...@solbu.net wrote: On Wednesday 4. February 2015 15.37, Zluty Sysel wrote: The issue here is one of trust from stakeholders that do not have enough familiarity with the open source movement. They do not need to know the technical issues.

Re: [License-discuss] 3-clause BSD with additional clause forbidding key disclosure

2015-02-05 Thread Simon Phipps
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Zluty Sysel zluty.sy...@gmail.com wrote: The issue however is that there is a certain reluctance not to include this in the source code license, since one of the .c files contains a very distinct placeholder (set to NULL) for the Private Key in it. The clause

[License-discuss] 3-clause BSD with additional clause forbidding key disclosure

2015-02-04 Thread Zluty Sysel
Hi all, I have a set of source files that I would like to open source using a standard 3-Clause BSD but my company would not like that a certain set of Private Keys used for authentication be disclosed along with the code. Instead the source files to be made into an open source project use an

Re: [License-discuss] 3-clause BSD with additional clause forbidding key disclosure

2015-02-04 Thread Cinly Ooi
I would probably refactor the code so the authentication key (or routine) goes into a separate file (authentication file) and distribute that file under a different license. Everything except that will go open source and instruction to users to replace the authentication file. You decide how much

Re: [License-discuss] 3-clause BSD with additional clause forbidding key disclosure

2015-02-04 Thread Gervase Markham
On 03/02/15 17:21, Zluty Sysel wrote: I have a set of source files that I would like to open source using a standard 3-Clause BSD but my company would not like that a certain set of Private Keys used for authentication be disclosed along with the code. You don't need to write a new license