Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
On 27 Jul 2000, Henning Makholm wrote: Under the GPL, I must give the *rights* to everyone, because those who recive the program from me can pass it on to anyone, and this anyone also get full rights to my modifications. Essentially GPL says: 1) you must give your source to those you give

Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:05:27PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: Essentially GPL says: 1) you must give your source to those you give binaries, but 2) you must give your rights to everyone. I understood, that you have only give rights to all these, that receive source or binaries

Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-28 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Bernhard R. Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 27 Jul 2000, Henning Makholm wrote: Under the GPL, I must give the *rights* to everyone, because those who recive the program from me can pass it on to anyone, and this anyone also get full rights to my modifications. Essentially GPL says:

Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-27 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 08:52:28PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: They not only want to have you patches for free, they also want you to give your copyrights to them. ILLEGAL. Not nice, but in which jurisdictions do you think it is actually illegal? Tomasz appears to have issues with

Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-27 Thread Bernhard R. Link
On 26 Jul 2000, Henning Makholm wrote: No, they *require* that the licensee licence his modification to them, which is legal enough. In a sense, the GPL also says something similar: roughly, if you distribute modifications, you must give us (and everyone else, by the way) the same rights to

Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-27 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Bernhard R. Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 26 Jul 2000, Henning Makholm wrote: In a sense, the GPL also says something similar: roughly, if you distribute modifications, you must give us (and everyone else, by the way) the same rights to your modifications as we give you to the

Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-26 Thread Chloe Hoffman
L PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Licence of SteelBlue Date: 26 Jul 2000 22:02:06 +0200 Scripsit Tomasz Wegrzanowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nothing in copyright law allow you to make such claims in a license. A "license" means two things: 1.

Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-26 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Tomasz Wegrzanowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] QUOTE : b. All distributed modifications to the Program shall immediately become subject to a permanent non-exclusive royalty-free right hereby granted to TCG to include such modifications in the Program as it may determine

Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-26 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 08:52:28PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Tomasz Wegrzanowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] QUOTE : b. All distributed modifications to the Program shall immediately ^ become subject to a permanent non-exclusive

Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-26 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Tomasz Wegrzanowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nothing in copyright law allow you to make such claims in a license. A license means two things: 1. The permission from the owner of an intellectual property right for someone to do whatever the IPR protects. 2. The contract in which the owner

Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-26 Thread Chloe Hoffman
@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Licence of SteelBlue Date: 26 Jul 2000 22:02:06 +0200 Scripsit Tomasz Wegrzanowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nothing in copyright law allow you to make such claims in a license. A license means two things: 1. The permission from

Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-25 Thread Juhapekka Tolvanen
I just found this kewl software and it claims to be Open-Source. http://www.steelblue.com/ Well, here is its licence: http://www.steelblue.com/sb/download/SteelBlue/latest/LICENSE.TXT What you think about? -- Juhapekka naula Tolvanen * U of Jyväskylä * [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-25 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:27:39AM +0300, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: I just found this kewl software and it claims to be Open-Source. http://www.steelblue.com/ Well, here is its licence: http://www.steelblue.com/sb/download/SteelBlue/latest/LICENSE.TXT What you think about? Quick