Re: [License-discuss] License Question

Another option is to contact the Software Freedom Conservancy, which represents a number of people who hold copyrights on code in the Linux kernel and do pursue violators, primarily to get access to the source code for everyone's benefit. You likely wouldn't be surprised to learn that they have a

Re: [License-discuss] License Question

Quoting Philippe Ombredanne (pombreda...@nexb.com): > Rick: This is enlightening and well written! Thank you -- but, really, how could I not help someone working for the public schools, as Kelly Jones is? Teachers are among my heroes. A small correction to my text, supplying words I omitted

Re: [License-discuss] License Question

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 7:35 AM, Rick Moen wrote: and ext> [...] > The company selling the firmware does indeed bear the obligation to > comply with the licensing terms of the various codebases it ships that > were written by others, including the Linux kernel, > [...] > As

Re: [License-discuss] License Question

Quoting kjones (kjo...@columbus.k12.nc.us): > I own a piece of hardware that has an embedded system that appears to > be based in whole on a variant of linux. > > The firmware became corrupted, and so I naively went to the company > asking if I could have a copy of the firmware that shipped with

[License-discuss] License Question

Hi all. I apologize if this is the wrong place for this question. I own a piece of hardware that has an embedded system that appears to be based in whole on a variant of linux. The firmware became corrupted, and so I naively went to the company asking if I could have a copy of the firmware

Re: [License-discuss] License question

Hi Nuno, I found similar things discussed on the list, so I thought it might be worth asking, sorry if that was a misunderstanding. Unfortunately, I have to disappoint you, I don't know which company you are talking about. This is a question related to an open source project. I know Himmelkron

[License-discuss] License question

Apologies for the html mail, here is plain text. Hi all, apologies if this is not the right list to ask. I have a situation where I am not sure if there is an open source licence which does what I want. I have a database which serves as the base for algorithms infer conclusions from it. Some

Re: [License-discuss] License question

Hi Stefan, I think the reason why you're not getting replies is because that mailing list is mostly intended to propose new license terms before they are accepted by the OSI. From that perspective, you likely won't get many replies because the case is generic. Being generic, I looked for more

[License-discuss] License question

Hi all, apologies if this is not the right list to ask. I have a situation where I am not sure if there is an open source licence which does what I want. I have a database which serves as the base for algorithms infer conclusions from it. Some of these algorithms are well known, but there is