Re: My Open Source (not officially so yet) License

2009-05-08 Thread Stephen
thats funny. On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Andrew Tuna Harris t...@supertunaman.com wrote: Excerpts from danceswithcrows's message of Wed May 06 11:41:52 -0700 2009: On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Andrew Tuna Harris wrote: - Nobody with the company that produces the proprietary software

Re: My Open Source (not officially so yet) License

2009-05-08 Thread Ryan Rix
You're a mad hatter, Tuna. What will the world be coming to if OSi approves it? On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Andrew Tuna Harris t...@supertunaman.com wrote: Helloes. I am working on an open source license of my very own. Basically, I think IP is just ridiculous (inb4 flameware. No. NO.

Re: My Open Source (not officially so yet) License

2009-05-08 Thread Stephen
A funnier place by far. On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Ryan Rix phrkonale...@gmail.com wrote: You're a mad hatter, Tuna. What will the world be coming to if OSi approves it? On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Andrew Tuna Harris t...@supertunaman.com wrote: -- A mouse trap, placed on top of

Re: My Open Source (not officially so yet) License

2009-05-07 Thread Andrew Tuna Harris
Excerpts from danceswithcrows's message of Wed May 06 11:41:52 -0700 2009: On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Andrew Tuna Harris wrote: - Nobody with the company that produces the proprietary software may say the word plinth out in public. This would also be interesting. But would it be

My Open Source (not officially so yet) License

2009-05-06 Thread Andrew Tuna Harris
Helloes. I am working on an open source license of my very own. Basically, I think IP is just ridiculous (inb4 flameware. No. NO. NO!), so I'm creating a license that is less restrictive than the GPL (you don't HAVE to redistribute full source code), but provides me with more lulz than the BSD

Re: My Open Source (not officially so yet) License

2009-05-06 Thread Lisa Kachold
Insane! On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Andrew Tuna Harris t...@supertunaman.com wrote: Helloes. I am working on an open source license of my very own. Basically, I think IP is just ridiculous (inb4 flameware. No. NO. NO!), so I'm creating a license that is less restrictive than the GPL

Re: My Open Source (not officially so yet) License

2009-05-06 Thread Stephen
I want to relese code under a licences that makes people have to do the chicken dance... On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: Insane! On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Andrew Tuna Harris t...@supertunaman.com wrote: Helloes. I am working on an open

Re: My Open Source (not officially so yet) License

2009-05-06 Thread JD Austin
Oh yes! I'll start the Rumpelstiltskin license... you can use it however you'd like but your firstborn is mine! :) -- JD Austin Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC j...@twingeckos.com 480.288.8195x201 http://www.twingeckos.com George Burns

Re: My Open Source (not officially so yet) License

2009-05-06 Thread Alex Dean
I would pay for the court transcript when you sue someone for violating that license. It is alleged that, on April 1 2015, Defendant did knowingly and with malice aforethought duplicate software programs and code licensed by Plaintiff, and did expressly failed to comply with Subsection

Re: My Open Source (not officially so yet) License

2009-05-06 Thread Matt Graham
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Andrew Tuna Harris wrote: - Nobody with the company that produces the proprietary software may say the word plinth out in public. This would also be interesting. But would it be enforceable? ISTR that there are plenty of problems with unenforceable

Re: My Open Source (not officially so yet) License

2009-05-06 Thread Alan Dayley
It's a funny idea to think about, even be good for a joke or prank. It's silly to think anyone would accept it as a legitimate license condition to do a dance. It would also make you look unprofessional not to be taken seriously. But then maybe that is what you want. ;^) Alan On Wed, May 6,

Re: My Open Source (not officially so yet) License

2009-05-06 Thread Andrew Tuna Harris
Excerpts from Alan Dayley (PHX Linux UG)'s message of Wed May 06 15:30:42 -0700 2009: It's a funny idea to think about, even be good for a joke or prank. It's silly to think anyone would accept it as a legitimate license condition to do a dance. It would also make you look unprofessional

Re: My Open Source (not officially so yet) License

2009-05-06 Thread Alan Dayley
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Andrew Tuna Harris t...@supertunaman.com wrote: TrollTech used to demand piles of money from software companies that wanted to use their Qt toolkit in their proprietary stuff, and they still do if they don't dynamically link to the libs. I ask for a little