Eric, John.
Interesting.
Thanks for the replies.
-Mike
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 1:52 PM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Michael MacIsaac <mike99...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hmm, I'm confused...
> >
> > From: http://nodejs.org/download/
> > "Node.js is released under the MIT license ..."
> >
> > From the MIT license:
> > "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
> > copy
> > of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
> > deal
> > in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
> rights
> > to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
> > copies of the Software ..."
> >
> > From the "View license" page of the IBM DeveloperWorks download:
> > "*IBM SDK for Node.js*
> > ...
> > 3. License Grant
> > The Program is owned by IBM or an IBM supplier, and is copyrighted and
> > licensed, not sold.
> > ...
> > e. Licensee does not 1) use, copy, modify, or distribute the Program..."
> >
> > Hmm ... Does the IBM SDK *not *contain node.js and the license is for the
> > SDK only? Otherwise it would seem IBM is violating the node.js license.
> >
> > -Mike MacIsaac
> >
>
> From what I understand of the MIT license, what IBM has done is
> allowed. The MIT license allows someone, or organization, to take the
> code and modify it in any way that they want. They may then copyright
> _their modified code_ and add further restrictions. That is, they can
> "commercialize" __their__ changes. Which is one reason why I tend to
> dislike it. OTOH, there are others which argue _for_ this because they
> feel that the GPL, among others, license is a dis-incentive to people
> who need to make a living from writing code. What IBM _cannot_ do is
> stop some one else from taking the _original_ node.js code and making
> a competing node.js implementation for z/Linux. Or z/OS. Or z/VM CMS.
>
> This is just from my reading of the license and what others have said.
> IANAL.
>
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> John McKown
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