Re: [License-discuss] Boilerplate license text for permissive licenses?

2013-01-01 Thread Luis Villa
Possibly relevant/of interest to those following this thread, from a student of Daniel's: http://turingmachine.org/~dmg/temp/trevor_BSD_report_2012_12_23.pdf I have not read it all yet, but it looks useful for informing our discussion of how to clean up/further standardize the BSD/MIT/X11

Re: [License-discuss] Boilerplate license text for permissive licenses?

2012-11-28 Thread Gervase Markham
On 27/11/12 19:28, D M German wrote: Why don't you try the tool we developed. It is a bit hacky, but it will help you do what you are doing automatically. http://github.com/dmgerman/ninka Hi dmg, I did come across ninka in my research, and tried it out, but I couldn't really get it to do

Re: [License-discuss] Boilerplate license text for permissive licenses?

2012-11-27 Thread Gervase Markham
Hi Larry, On 27/11/12 04:57, Lawrence Rosen wrote: Consider the hapless corporate attorney who is forced to review hundreds of proprietary software licenses when authorizing the distribution or sale/purchase of his company's software products. Each of those proprietary licenses may contain

Re: [License-discuss] Boilerplate license text for permissive licenses?

2012-11-27 Thread Gervase Markham
On 26/11/12 23:44, Luis Villa wrote: I wonder if there is an easy way to visualize the various changes you have in your data set, to see where people agreed/disagreed/edited, outside the obvious changes. Daniel German, cc'd, may have already tackled this, or have other ideas along these lines.

Re: [License-discuss] Boilerplate license text for permissive licenses?

2012-11-27 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Matthew Flaschen wrote: But I don't see how you can remove the placeholder from BSD 3-Clause while still having it be the same license. The original says, Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors You have to put something in place of