Re: FWD: on the variability of BSD and MIT licenses

2012-12-28 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 07:56:34 +0900 Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear all, > > there is an interesting email on the SPDX mailing list, distributing an > article > about the BSD and MIT license families. Here is a link to the page with the > attached file. > > http://lists.spdx.org/pipermail/spdx/201

FWD: on the variability of BSD and MIT licenses

2012-12-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, there is an interesting email on the SPDX mailing list, distributing an article about the BSD and MIT license families. Here is a link to the page with the attached file. http://lists.spdx.org/pipermail/spdx/2012-December/000785.html Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Illkirch-Graff

Re: BSD & MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-14 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:49:50 +0100 Anthony W. Youngman wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Suraj N. Kurapati > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes [...] > >So when I appended bsd.c to mit.c, did the entire mit.c become > >licensed under both licenses? That is, did the originally-MIT > >portions of m

Re: BSD & MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
holder's names to promote the product) that the MIT license lacks. Um, neither the BSD nor the MIT licenses have a clause saying 'You may not add additional restrictions.' Wonderful! Thanks for the clarification. :-) So when I appended bsd.c to mit.c, did the entire mit.c be

Re: BSD & MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-14 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
Joe Smith wrote: > "Suraj N. Kurapati" wrote: >> So when I appended bsd.c to mit.c, did the entire mit.c become >> licensed under both licenses? That is, did the originally-MIT >> portions of mit.c inherit the extra condition from the BSD >> license? > > That is an easy way to view it. Technica

Re: BSD & MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-13 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 4/14/07, Suraj N. Kurapati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible to extract the originally-MIT portions from the file and act upon them only according to the MIT license? Yes, because if you can extract the exact portions that are MIT licensed there's no way you could tell the difference

Re: BSD & MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-13 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
Andrew Donnellan wrote: > On 4/14/07, Suraj N. Kurapati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So when I appended bsd.c to mit.c, did the entire mit.c become >> licensed under both licenses? That is, did the originally-MIT >> portions of mit.c inherit the extra condition from the BSD license? > > The comb

Re: BSD & MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-13 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 4/14/07, Suraj N. Kurapati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wonderful! Thanks for the clarification. :-) So when I appended bsd.c to mit.c, did the entire mit.c become licensed under both licenses? That is, did the originally-MIT portions of mit.c inherit the extra condition from the BSD license?

Re: BSD & MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-13 Thread Joe Smith
pyright holder's names to promote the product) that the MIT license lacks. Um, neither the BSD nor the MIT licenses have a clause saying 'You may not add additional restrictions.' Wonderful! Thanks for the clarification. :-) So when I appended bsd.c to mit.c, did the entire mit.

Re: BSD & MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-13 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
ense lacks. > > Um, neither the BSD nor the MIT licenses have a clause saying 'You may > not add additional restrictions.' Wonderful! Thanks for the clarification. :-) So when I appended bsd.c to mit.c, did the entire mit.c become licensed under both licenses? That is, did the

Re: BSD & MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-13 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 4/14/07, Suraj N. Kurapati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Remarks === The BSD is not compatible with the MIT license because it has an additional condition (i.e. you cannot use copyright holder's names to promote the product) that the MIT license lacks. Um, neither the BSD

BSD & MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-13 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
Hello, Please consider the following scenarios to help me better understand whether BSD* and MIT code are "compatible". *I am referring to the 3-clause BSD license: http://opensource.org/osi3.0/licenses/bsd-license.php Scenario Suppose that (1) I have two C source files (mit.c and

Re: MIT licenses

2006-03-21 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:52:16 + Måns Rullgård wrote: > Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > Has anyone found another URL for the "real" X11 license (the one > > that used to live at http://www.x.org/Downloads_terms.html)? > > Gentoo has a fairly comprehensive collection of lice

Re: MIT licenses

2006-03-20 Thread Måns Rullgård
Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 02:39:56 + MJ Ray wrote: > >> I think that's the one. There are several often called MIT. Someone >> has moved the copy on X.org to which >> http://www.fr.debian.org/legal/licenses/ links - has anyone >> a new URL besides the fai

MIT licenses [was: Re: [IBPP-DISCUSS] IBPP license 1.0]

2006-03-20 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 02:39:56 + MJ Ray wrote: > I think that's the one. There are several often called MIT. Someone > has moved the copy on X.org to which > http://www.fr.debian.org/legal/licenses/ links - has anyone > a new URL besides the failed open source initiative, please? AFAIK, the two