[twsocket] ICS on SourceForge, which license is best ?
I would like to have your opinion about which license I should select at SourceForge (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category). I have not much time to read all possible licenses. You all know the current license displayed in each source file (see below for reminder). I would like to stay as close as possible to this simple license. Basically, I want to preserve my intellectual property while granting anyone to use and redistribute ICS source code, including in commercial applications and royalty free. Legal issues: Copyright (C) 1996-2007 by François PIETTE Rue de Grady 24, 4053 Embourg, Belgium. Fax: +32-4-365.74.56 [EMAIL PROTECTED] This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the author be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software. Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions: 1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented, you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required. 2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software. 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution. 4. You must register this software by sending a picture postcard to the author. Use a nice stamp and mention your name, street address, EMail address and any comment you like to say. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of the freeware Internet Component Suite (ICS) http://www.overbyte.be -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
Re: [twsocket] ICS on SourceForge, which license is best ?
So far, the closest thing to your PostcardWare License that I have found is this: The Educational Community License http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl1.php It grants all the same rights that your license does, and has a provision to prevent confusion between derivative works and the original (i.e. modified versions cannot be claimed to be the original). The only thing missing is the postcard condition :) -dZ. --- Original Message --- From: Francois PIETTE[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10/8/2007 2:59:47 PM To : twsocket@elists.org Cc : Subject : RE: [twsocket] ICS on SourceForge, which license is best ? I would like to have your opinion about which license I should select at SourceForge ( http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category ). I have not much time to read all possible licenses. You all know the current license displayed in each source file (see below for reminder). I would like to stay as close as possible to this simple license. Basically, I want to preserve my intellectual property while granting anyone to use and redistribute ICS source code, including in commercial applications and royalty free. Legal issues: Copyright (C) 1996-2007 by François PIETTE Rue de Grady 24, 4053 Embourg, Belgium. Fax: +32-4-365.74.56 [EMAIL PROTECTED] This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the author be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software. Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions: 1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented, you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required. 2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software. 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution. 4. You must register this software by sending a picture postcard to the author. Use a nice stamp and mention your name, street address, EMail address and any comment you like to say. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of the freeware Internet Component Suite (ICS) http://www.overbyte.be -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
Re: [twsocket] ICS on SourceForge, which license is best ?
So far, the closest thing to your PostcardWare License that I have found is this: The Educational Community License http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl1.php Indeed it looks very close to my usual license. Any known drawback with this license ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of the freeware Internet Component Suite (ICS) http://www.overbyte.be - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: twsocket@elists.org Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 9:18 PM Subject: Re: [twsocket] ICS on SourceForge, which license is best ? So far, the closest thing to your PostcardWare License that I have found is this: The Educational Community License http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl1.php It grants all the same rights that your license does, and has a provision to prevent confusion between derivative works and the original (i.e. modified versions cannot be claimed to be the original). The only thing missing is the postcard condition :) -dZ. --- Original Message --- From: Francois PIETTE[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10/8/2007 2:59:47 PM To : twsocket@elists.org Cc : Subject : RE: [twsocket] ICS on SourceForge, which license is best ? I would like to have your opinion about which license I should select at SourceForge ( http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category ). I have not much time to read all possible licenses. You all know the current license displayed in each source file (see below for reminder). I would like to stay as close as possible to this simple license. Basically, I want to preserve my intellectual property while granting anyone to use and redistribute ICS source code, including in commercial applications and royalty free. Legal issues: Copyright (C) 1996-2007 by François PIETTE Rue de Grady 24, 4053 Embourg, Belgium. Fax: +32-4-365.74.56 [EMAIL PROTECTED] This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the author be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software. Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions: 1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented, you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required. 2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software. 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution. 4. You must register this software by sending a picture postcard to the author. Use a nice stamp and mention your name, street address, EMail address and any comment you like to say. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of the freeware Internet Component Suite (ICS) http://www.overbyte.be -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
Re: [twsocket] ICS on SourceForge, which license is best ?
Indeed it looks very close to my usual license. Any known drawback with this license ? Not that I know of, nor that I can see. It seems very close to the MIT license, except that the MIT license does not provide for the clear distinction of modifications from the original work -- which, in my opinion, is also the main point of your license. Here's a discussion I found on the license when the author was submitting it for approval by the Open Source Initiative: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg07630.html A quick Google search appears to show that the license is popular. And as far as I know, it is very common in academic research institutions. I also found version 2.0 of the license, which is based on the Apache license (again, adding the provision for distinction of derivative works). Its basically the same thing but with more legal-speak. I am not a lawyer, so I cannot tell whether any of that verbiage is actually necessary, but it seems to be in many software licenses nowadays, and perhaps that was the intention. However, it seems to mostly protect against patent lawsuits, which I understand would be an issue to a research institution. Educational Community License, Version 2.0 http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php -dZ. -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
