Hi Rage,
On 9/22/06, Rage Callao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Dean,
On 9/22/06, Dean Michael Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, then make certain "standards" regarding the contents of the
> softare licenses and not the type of license the software comes in. It
> shouldn't matter that it's a FOSS license which the OSI determines, or
> a license that simply allows the government to use the software and
> modify it so long as the government doesn't transfer the
> redistribution rights to the third party developers who will modify it
> in the future.
Are you saying its ok for the government to mandate that source code
be made available to the government when it purchases software as long
as government doesn't allow subsequent developers who will have access
to the code the right to use it for anything else other than the
original purpose for which it had been acquired?
What I'm saying is that it's alright for government to say that "for
all further ICT projects wherein software will have to be
procured/acquired, that the software be licensed such that the license
allows the Philippine government to get a copy of the source code,
have rights to use the source code and resulting compiled binaries (if
any) indefinitely across all government owned and controlled agencies
and departments, and be able to modify the source code either through
its ICT agencies/departments or by a third party.".
If the license disallows third party developers contracted by
government from using the source code to the software product outside
of the purposes of government use (i.e. covered by an NDA, or MOA,
binding the third party developer to legal contract to promise to not
use the source code for private purposes), then I don't care -- just
as long as the above three conditions hold. If the license also
requires that you send a post-card to the author for every
installation of the software, it shouldn't matter. I just want
government to have the rights to the code, be able to modify the code
by itself or through third party contractors to suit its purposes, and
be able to use the software forever. Of course, this should be after
the fact that the software is deemed to fulfill technical functional
and non-functional requirements of government. FOSS licenses will also
qualify under these stipulations, and so will other non-FOSS licenses
that include the above mentioned three stipulations.
These licenses are non-FOSS licenses, and software released under this
licensing scheme should not be discriminated against _as long as they
fultill the functional and non-functional requirements of the
Philippine government_.
--
Dean Michael C. Berris
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