On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 19:58:13 -0500 Michael Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> On Friday, 02 December 2005, at 09:13:20 (+0900), > Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > thing is - WE have a VARIANT of BSD+Advertising. if you read COPYING-PLAIN > > it allows explicitly the person to meet the advertising clause by: > > > > 1. shipping source of the code + mods (but not what links to it - so it > > acts as LGPL) OR > > 2. emailing the AUTHORS expressly letting them know it is being used (thus > > the authors can advertise themselves "hey - product X uses our stuff!") OR > > 3. the usual BSD advertising clause :) > > Funny thing. Entrance doesn't *have* COPYING-PLAIN. ooh good point. it doesnt :) ok - then entrance ONLY can have its advertising clause met by advertising it. > > as I was the one who wrote up the license BASED on the BSD (very > > closely) with some more liberal changes, I am explicitly expressing > > intention and meaning. > > Of course, since you've modified the license and no lawyer has > examined it to make sure it's legally sound and enforceable, that > opens quite an interesting can of worms. > > There's a reason people use well-established licenses. well too bad then. thats how it is. the fact is that the default licenses didnt meet my needs/wants. > > that's BECAUSE there is a CLAUSE in their license that we do not > > have. i quote: > > No, it's because they have a common law trademark on the name, just > like you have on Enlightenment. there is no such thing as common law trademark last i checked. there is common law copyright though. trademarks must be explicitly redistered AND enforced. > Michael > > -- > Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Time to be all the things that you dreamed of. Time to see if your > fairy tale comes true. Time to see there's a shoulder you can lean > on. Time to be, 'cause now it's time for you." > -- The Tories, Theme from "Jesse" > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
