Re: [OT] Question about licensing

2006-03-08 Thread Leon Rosenberg
On 3/8/06, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The following post contains no value :-) > > On 3/8/06, Leon Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For process reasons the source code of > > the libs will not be available > > > The jars would be free for copy, modification, usage, >

Re: [OT] Question about licensing

2006-03-08 Thread Michael Jouravlev
The following post contains no value :-) On 3/8/06, Leon Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For process reasons the source code of > the libs will not be available > The jars would be free for copy, modification, usage, ^ How can you allow modific

Re: [OT] Question about licensing

2006-03-08 Thread Leon Rosenberg
Thanx Ted and Peter, MIT will do, I will suggest it to the customer, and it is really VERY brief and understandable :-) Emmanouil: >IMO the libraries have very little value without the source code being >available under an OS license Normally I would agree, but in this case the MIT license will

RE: [OT] Question about licensing

2006-03-08 Thread Peter Crowther
> From: Leon Rosenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > For process reasons the source code of > the libs will not be available Then LGPL is unsuitable. > The jars would be free for copy, modification, usage, all the gpl > stuff, but not available in sourcecode. Apache and LGPL are often unnecessari

[OT] Question about licensing

2006-03-08 Thread Leon Rosenberg
I'm sorry for OT, but I am pretty stupid with legal stuff, and after carefully reading gnu und apache license packages I am as unknowing as I was before. Here my problem: I am trying to convince one of my customers to make some of the libs I wrote for him public available. For process reasons the