On 11/18/14 11:27 AM, Tao Effect wrote: > Good observation Nadim, I'm also curious about the GPL question. > Maybe some EFF folks can answer that?
Not a lawyer, but I am an EFF folk. I endorse Zaki Manian's answer: > The OWS Contributor Agreement appears to permit multiple licensing > agreements that would permit using OWS open source code within a > proprietary app after reaching an agreement with OWS which is > probably what is happening here. > > https://whispersystems.org/cla/ > >> Grant of Copyright License. Subject to the terms and conditions of >> this Agreement, You hereby grant to Open Whisper Systems and to >> recipients of software distributed by Open Whisper Systems a >> perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, >> irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works >> of, publicly display, publicly perform, and distribute Your >> Contributions and such derivative works, as well as the right to >> sublicense and have sublicensed all of the foregoing rights, through >> multiple tiers of sublicensees, provided that in all cases, Open >> Whisper Systems will make Your Contributions available under an >> OSI-approved open source license. My read of this clause is that OWS can't just offer a license to WhatsApp (thanks to the last sentence) but can release it to them under an OSI-approved non-copyleft license. Parker -- Parker Higgins Activist Electronic Frontier Foundation https://eff.org 815 Eddy Street San Francisco, CA 94109-7701 I prefer to use encrypted email. Public key: https://www.eff.org/files/2013/11/03/parkerkey.txt Fingerprint: 4FF3 AA1B D29E 1638 32DE C765 9433 5F88 9A36 7709 Learn how to encrypt your email with the Email Self Defense guide: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/
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