Dear License discuss list, I would be interested i hearing you opinon on this proposed license that norbert has posted to the dotgnu developers list. Mike
--- Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From Norbert Bollow Tue Aug 5 12:17:30 2003 > Subject: [DotGNU]proposal: DotGNU Trademark License > > A recent discussion with Stephen J. Turnbull has reminded me > that it is very important to create some legal protection for > the term "DotGNU Webservice". > > Provided that the FSF agrees to this idea, I'd like to include > something like the following in the documentation that will be > part of the upcoming DotGNU 0.1 release: > > > """ > "DotGNU Webservice" Servicemark License > > Version 0.1-alpha1 > > Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA > > Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies > of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. > > > > "GNU" is a registered trademark of the Free Software Foundation, Inc. > "DotGNU Webservice" is a servicemark of the Free Software Foundation, > Inc. > > TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USING THE "DotGNU Webservice" SERVICEMARK. > > 0. This License grants, to businesses which satisfy the > conditions that are outlined in sections 1 and 2 below, > permission to use the "DotGNU Webservice" servicemark > in the context of their commercial activities. > > Activities which are not of commercial nature are outside the > scope of this license; in particular there are no restrictions > on using the term "DotGNU Webservice" outside the context of > making a commercial service offering. > > Every business which fulfils the conditions that are outlined > in sections 1 and 2 below may choose to accept this license, > thereby > becoming a licensee. Each licensee is addressed as "you". > > You are not required to accept this License, since you have not > signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to use the > "DotGNU Webservice" servicemark in the context of making > commercial > service offerings; that is prohibited by law if you do not accept > this License. Therefore, by using the "DotGNU Webservice" > servicemark in such a commercial context, you indicate your > acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and > conditions. > > > 1. The "DotGNU Webservice" servicemark may only be used in connection > with services that satisfy DotGNU's definition of "webservices", > namely the following two conditions must be satisfied: > > (a) Some functionality is provided, and in addition there is > a description of this functionality, namely how the > service should be used and what it provides. > > (b) The service is offered over a computer network (e.g. the > internet or an intranet) via standard protocols, i.e. > protocols > that are open, widely published, and freely available for > anyone > to implement. > > If you provide a commercial service and use the "DotGNU > Webservice" > servicemark, you must in addition satisfy the following two > conditions: > > (c) You must ensure that whenever the service is usable, the owner > of the data is able to download the data plus the program > which > acts on the data (the "webservice program") in an executable > form which can be used with a version of the DGEE ("DotGNU > Execution Environment") webservice server which has been > released by the DotGNU Project of the Free Software > Foundation. > > (d) You must provide your customers with a written offer, valid > for > at least three years, to give them upon request, at no extra > charge, on a medium customarily used for software interchange, > licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, > a complete machine-readable copy of the source code of the > webservice program plus any compilers and libraries which are > needed to translate the webservice program into executable > form. > > The term "webservice program" in sections (c) and (d) above refers > to a computer program which can be used together with a version of > the DGEE ("DotGNU Execution Environment") webservice server to > provide a webservice which is identical in functionality to the > webservice which the customer has purchased from you. > > > 2. Any violation of the conditions in section 1 will automatically > terminate your rights under this License. You must not use the > "DotGNU Webservice" servicemark if you have previously violated > any > of the conditions in section 1. > > """ > > Greetings, Norbert. > > -- > Founder & Steering Committee member of > http://gnu.org/projects/dotgnu/ > Free Software Business Strategy Guide ---> > http://FreeStrategy.info > Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, CH-8624 Gruet (near Zurich, > Switzerland) > Tel +41 1 972 20 59 Fax +41 1 972 20 69 > http://norbert.ch > _______________________________________________ > Developers mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://dotgnu.org/mailman/listinfo/developers ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3