On 24 Nov 2005, at 05:01, Chipp Walters wrote:
Finally, if my above interpretation of your first post is
incorrect, then please accept my apology.
Thanks for the kind comments (we cna all be sensitive). From my
original post:
Now of course for a small piece of code like this - well may as
well be given away public domain (which is dubious legally in many
countries). But this is an example.
It should have read "just" an example... So yes i was only trying to
make concrete the problems that occur when the legal status of such
posts is not clear.
Sean's excellent SMTP library is an excellent example of sharing w/
out expecting payback.
Agreed a wonderful and generous contribution.
On 23 Nov 2005, at 22:23, Sean Shao wrote:
Well I've stated in the source code that no license is needed from
me to use the libraries
And clearly licensed :)
The problem occurs with large collections taken from sources such as
this list.
On 24 Nov 2005, at 03:45, Sean Shao wrote:
A legal document that you sign is legally binding whether you read
it or not (hence the reason I read everything I sign and refuse to
sign almost everything ;-) )
My understanding too.
On 23 Nov 2005, at 23:20, Richard Gaskin wrote:
draconian TOSes like we see on AOL and elsewhere about how posting
here obliterates all of your rights and grants total control of
your words to the list owner.
The idea would be to do precisely the opposite. To indicate clearly
that such contributions were all in the public domain (note the
problems with this) or under as free a license as possible so that
they can be included as safely as possible in useful free or
commercial collections - such as the fab Scripters Scrapbook.
For the same reasons, if this were part on an explicit open source
policy, well documented, legally sorted and marketed - then it would
put all of us in a much better position to tender for the sort of
government contracts that Andre Garzia, myself and others have
pointed out as being prime application areas that Revolution
developers can play an important role in.
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