Re: Should LGPL-3.0 be an exception rather than a main license?

2015-04-01 Thread Dennis Clark
Hi Jilayne, Re: 2.0 will be LIVE tomorrow!! yippee!!! Thanks for all of your hard work finishing up the Legal tasks. I'll say yippee as well !!! Regards, Dennis On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:47 PM, J Lovejoy opensou...@jilayne.com wrote: HI all, Thanks for the thoughts and weighing in. We

Re: Should LGPL-3.0 be an exception rather than a main license?

2015-03-27 Thread Philippe Ombredanne
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:10 PM, J Lovejoy opensou...@jilayne.com wrote: Hi All, Let me sum this up, to make sure we are all on the same page. LGPLv3 will be on the license list - there is no question there. The question is, now that we have the exceptions listed on their own, should it be

Re: Should LGPL-3.0 be an exception rather than a main license?

2015-03-26 Thread J Lovejoy
[mailto:spdx-legal-boun...@lists.spdx.org mailto:spdx-legal-boun...@lists.spdx.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Clark Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 4:09 PM To: J Lovejoy Cc: SPDX-legal Subject: Re: Should LGPL-3.0 be an exception rather than a main license? Legal Team, I think that Sam's points

RE: Should LGPL-3.0 be an exception rather than a main license?

2015-03-26 Thread Wheeler, David A
J Lovejoy: GPL-3.0 WITH LGPL-3.0 (this feels a bit odd, but it would be accurate technically speaking…) [or] LGPL-3.0 I strongly believe “LGPL-3.0” is the correct answer. LGPL-3.0 is much simpler, it's much clearer to non-lawyers, and referring to it as its own name matches

Re: Should LGPL-3.0 be an exception rather than a main license?

2015-03-26 Thread Philip Odence
I’m with my friend David on this…and with my friend Ralph: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak

RE: Should LGPL-3.0 be an exception rather than a main license?

2015-03-24 Thread Wheeler, David A
-boun...@lists.spdx.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Clark Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 4:09 PM To: J Lovejoy Cc: SPDX-legal Subject: Re: Should LGPL-3.0 be an exception rather than a main license? Legal Team, I think that Sam's points about the LGPL 3.0 are technically correct, but given that OSI treats

Re: Should LGPL-3.0 be an exception rather than a main license?

2015-03-23 Thread J Lovejoy
Hi Sam, Hmm… great point. This has not been considered previously and did not really need to be pre-2.0 discussions because the exceptions were not separated out, etc. Our next legal call is on the day we are hoping to go live with 2.0, I think. So, we can discuss it then (it’s not a

RE: Should LGPL-3.0 be an exception rather than a main license?

2015-03-23 Thread Tom Vidal
Despite my wholehearted agreement with Sam, I must agree with Dennis. From: spdx-legal-boun...@lists.spdx.org [mailto:spdx-legal-boun...@lists.spdx.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Clark Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 4:09 PM To: J Lovejoy Cc: SPDX-legal Subject: Re: Should LGPL-3.0 be an exception rather

RE: Should LGPL-3.0 be an exception rather than a main license?

2015-03-23 Thread Alan Tse
Lovejoy Cc: SPDX-legal Subject: Re: Should LGPL-3.0 be an exception rather than a main license? Legal Team, I think that Sam's points about the LGPL 3.0 are technically correct, but given that OSI treats LGPL 3.0 as a license (http://opensource.org/licenses/LGPL-3.0), I think we can also treat