Re: JasPer License Issues: Some Potentially Good News

2004-01-30 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, MJ Ray wrote: There is no X11 license certified by OSI. What do you mean here? I am sorry, I meant the MIT License which is essentially the same license used by the X Consortium for X11 (http://www.x.org/Downloads_terms.html). --Michael

Re: JasPer License Issues: Some Potentially Good News

2004-01-30 Thread Michael Adams
Dear Ben and Others: Thank you for your constructive feedback regarding the draft version of the new JasPer license. Your responses have been most helpful. I have explained the problem associated with clause 3 (the litigation-terminates-license clause) to Image Power, and the company has

Re: JasPer License Issues: Some Potentially Good News

2004-01-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
3. If User breaches any term of this license or commences an infringement action against any copyright holder then the User's ^^^ Sloppy and overbroad. This should refer to any holder of copyright in *this Software*, at the very least

JasPer License Issues: Some Potentially Good News

2004-01-29 Thread Michael Adams
Hi Folks: [I have tried to include everyone that was involved in the discussions on the JasPer software license on the distribution list for this email. Quite a number of people were involved. I hope that I did not miss anybody.] I have some potentially good news. Image Power seems to be

Re: JasPer License Issues: Some Potentially Good News

2004-01-29 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 06:50:32PM -0800, Michael Adams wrote: I have some potentially good news. Image Power seems to be agreeable to revising the JasPer software license to address the concerns raised by you and other members of the open-source community. I have appended the first

Re: JasPer License Issues: Some Potentially Good News

2004-01-29 Thread Brian M. Carlson
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 06:50:32PM -0800, Michael Adams wrote: Hi Folks: [I have tried to include everyone that was involved in the discussions on the JasPer software license on the distribution list for this email. Quite a number of people were involved. I hope that I did not miss

Re: JasPer License Issues: Some Potentially Good News

2004-01-29 Thread Ben Reser
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 06:50:32PM -0800, Michael Adams wrote: I have some potentially good news. Image Power seems to be agreeable to revising the JasPer software license to address the concerns raised by you and other members of the open-source community. I have appended the first

Re: JasPer License Issues: Some Potentially Good News

2004-01-29 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-01-30 02:50:32 + Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, the new license was largely copied from the open-source-certified X11 license. There is no such thing as open-source-certified that I know of. There is no X11 license certified by OSI. What do you mean here? wdiff

Re: JasPer License Issues: Some Potentially Good News

2004-01-29 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Brian M. Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. If User breaches any term of this license or commences an infringement action against any copyright holder then the User's license and all sublicenses that have been granted hereunder by User to other parties shall terminate. I am

Re: JasPer License Issues: Some Potentially Good News

2004-01-29 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:21:13AM +, Henning Makholm wrote: This disclaimer is much better. I can't read it. May I suggest M-x downcase-region? Lawyers can't write disclaimers using lower case letters. It's a medical problem. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :'