Jonathan, I wanted to follow up and again encourage you to have this product submitted if you believe it would be a contender.
Per your specific question about "exclusive rights"... I'd say "exclusive" implies control and authorship. You can use that right to grant rights to others, so its okay if you choose to make *your* code Open Source after the fact. But it still has to be *your* code. Thus the code you might submit for consideration - which is the specific Mac OS X value-add, not the underlying Open Source implementation -- has to be created by you or your team. A long-term community effort is interesting, but not a good candidate for the award. If an individual created a great Cocoa front-end to Star Office starting from the default cross-platform source, that would absolutely qualify. But if they were part of 50-team Open Source project which has been worked on for months, it would not. The goal is to recognize extraordinary achievement by individuals, not a community, if you see the distinction. I trust these belated comments help clarify things for you. John Geleynse User Experience Evangelist Apple Worldwide Developer Relations Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2002, May 6-10 For details, visit http://developer.apple.com/wwdc2002 John Geleynse User Experience Evangelist Apple Worldwide Developer Relations Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2002, May 6-10 For details, visit http://developer.apple.com/wwdc2002 > From: "Jonathan Z. Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:46:11 -0500 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Fink Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Max Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Design Awards - Frequently Asked Questions > >> From http://developer.apple.com/designawards/faq.html >> >>> This page clarifies some details of the contest rules and eligibility. >>> For other questions that are not addressed in the Official Contest >>> Rules, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dear Design Awards, > > As a user of the open-source, collaborative effort, Fink project > <http://fink.sourceforge.net/>, I would really like to see Fink enter, > and of course, win. The people who really make Fink work deserve a lot > of credit, and those of us who use Fink would like to see them get that > credit. > > There is some troubling language in the full contest rules, namely: >> Each entrant warrants that the entry is original and owned by entrant, >> or in the case of an entry in the BEST MAC OS X OPEN SOURCE PORT >> category, warrants that they are the sole contributor to, and have >> exclusive rights to, the Mac OS X related portion s of the Work and >> that the remainder of the code is available under an Open Source >> license, free of any claims by other parties. > > This language has created some concern on the fink-users mailing list, > since none of the contributers have "exclusive rights to, the Mac OS X > related portions of the Work" (that would defeat some of the purpose of > open source, wouldn't it?). > > Is such legal language designed to exclude a true open source project, > like Fink? > > Awaiting your answer, > > Jonathan Simon > > -- > Jonathan Z. Simon > Electrical & Computer Engineering > University of Maryland, College Park MD 20742 USA > Office: 1-301-405-3645, Lab: 1-301-405-6581, Fax: 1-301-314-9281 > http://www.isr.umd.edu/Labs/CSSL/ > > _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
