--- Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > C Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > | If I understand correctly the terms of > | this license, any commercial activity around the code base can be > | undertaken ONLY by those with the exclusive rights to do so. > > We can spend lot of time speculating; I would have thought that > asking Stephen directly about the real intent and meaning of license > would be more productive than pure speculation. So I asked him. > And he answered. And the answer was reported here. But, I suspect > pure speculation has higher value than the real thing.
I beg your pardon - I did not intend to imply discourtesy by seeming to ignore the previous information. However, I view the details of the license text itself as important independent of the intent of the authors. Whatever the intent may be, the legal text of the license itself is what will ultimately govern what can and cannot be done, within the limits of the law. That is why I focus on the text of the license itself - intent lasts only as long as the individuals doing the intending. I am sure the Aldor.org and NAG organizations in their current forms would be very reasonable to work with on almost any application of the Aldor code. However, the point is that organizations and licensing terms outlive individuals and management teams and policy setters. That is why such care has been given to the wording and text of the GPLv3, for example - because whatever the intent of the authors the license text itself ultimately governs. Relying in the long term on the good will of individuals or organizations is too dangerous. It's about future proofing - what will Aldor.org look like as an organization in 50 years? 100? Could their resources and copyrights be bought by someone else? How can this license be abused if the copyrights fall under control of someone inclined to abuse it? Anyway, it's a fairly moot point. As you state, both the license text and clear intent statements are available. Each of us will make his/her own decisions in light of that information. Cheers, CY ____________________________________________________________________________________ Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer