Re: [License-discuss] Looking for a license agreement.

2011-10-06 Thread Tom Callaway
On 10/06/2011 12:50 PM, Rudy Lippan wrote: There will also be a community aspect where individuals will develop and contribute components, just like every other open source project However, some of the contributed components may not be eligible for copyright protections. A component

Re: [License-discuss] Greetings, Earthlings! Need quotes for article

2011-12-19 Thread Tom Callaway
On 12/19/2011 10:42 AM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: 69 is way too few. In my little research of just around 600 man pages I found over 100 different licenses -- mostly due to slight wording changes. Fedora is tracking 300+ different FOSS licenses. ~tom == Fedora Project

Re: [License-discuss] BSD, MIT [was Re: Draft of new OSI licenses landing page; please review.]

2012-04-05 Thread Tom Callaway
On 04/05/2012 11:35 AM, John Cowan wrote: So put Apache before MIT/BSD, but don't drop them altogether. Perhaps we should simply alphabetize these licenses? I'm not sure we'll ever reach consensus on ordering by importance or value or usefulness. ~tom == Fedora Project

Re: [License-discuss] Does this look like an open source license?

2015-01-26 Thread Tom Callaway
On 01/26/2015 08:42 AM, Maxthon Chan wrote: The incident is that one project owner found his code used in an commercial product without attribution but the Chinese-speaking court says that the license is not enforceable if it is written in a language that the judge cannot understand, and

Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: Possible alternative was: Re: U.S. Army Research Laboratory Open Source License (ARL OSL) Version 0.4.1

2017-03-16 Thread Tom Callaway
Can't speak for Debian, but Fedora will happily take software licensed as you describe. On Mar 16, 2017 3:09 PM, "Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US)" < cem.f.karan@mail.mil> wrote: > I agree that the Government can release it as open source, but as I > understand it, not as Open Source.

Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: Possible alternative was: Re: U.S. Army Research Laboratory Open Source License (ARL OSL) Version 0.4.1

2017-03-16 Thread Tom Callaway
ed Hat consider it to be Open Source? > > Thanks, > Cem Karan > > > -Original Message- > > From: License-discuss [mailto:license-discuss-boun...@opensource.org] > On Behalf Of Tom Callaway > > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 3:31 PM > > To: license-discu