Re: [License-discuss] GPL and proprietary WebAPIs

2011-12-27 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Clark C. Evans (c...@clarkevans.com): I think MySQL AB's licensing strategy is offered in this forum as an overreach. In particular, Larry Rosen argues that there is no derived work when an application simply uses MySQL as intended via its public interface, even if the

Re: [License-discuss] GPL and proprietary WebAPIs

2011-12-27 Thread John Cowan
Rick Moen scripsit: MySQL AB's sales staff is reputed to have made claims to customers that were insupportable. (Whether that thus constitutes a licensing strategy I would not know, but I'm generally not quite that cynical.) Maybe not, but lying to your customers is definitely a *business*

Re: [License-discuss] GPL and proprietary WebAPIs

2011-12-27 Thread Thomas Schneider
Good answer, John! Same with me, deceniums agao, at GEISCO (General Electric Information Services). But you do *never know* what the future does bring ... ** unless you actively do try to INFLUENCE it (the future of human beeings) ** Watch me at Thomas.Schneider.Wien, at FaceBook, Skype,

Re: [License-discuss] GPL and proprietary WebAPIs

2011-12-27 Thread Clark C. Evans
John, Thank you for your reply. On Tue, Dec 27, 2011, at 11:18 AM, John Cowan wrote: Does the GPL prevent the distribution of M if the work it relies upon, P, isn't compatibly licensed? Web browsers rely on web servers to provide most of their function (take it from someone who was

Re: [License-discuss] GPL and proprietary WebAPIs

2011-12-27 Thread Henrik Ingo
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Tzeng, Nigel H. nigel.tz...@jhuapl.edu wrote: I'm trying to find an appropriate licensing strategy for our company, and I'm expressly trying to prevent and understand the sort of shims that seem to be standard industry practice.  If our work can't be protected

Re: [License-discuss] GPL and proprietary WebAPIs

2011-12-27 Thread Chris Travers
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Clark C. Evans c...@clarkevans.com wrote: First, thank everyone for their responses.  I especially enjoy the reading material that Rick Moen has referenced. On Tue, Dec 27, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Tzeng, Nigel H. wrote: If it's not a derivative work then it's not a