Re: Can the following license be used for ported programs?

2007-09-24 Thread David Southwell
On Sunday 23 September 2007 15:43:12 Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 05:10:53PM +, Aryeh Friedman wrote: My company develops software under a commercial open source (see links for details) and I want to know if my license is close enough to open source (see links for why it

Re: Can the following license be used for ported programs?

2007-09-24 Thread David Southwell
On Sunday 23 September 2007 18:41:43 Aryeh Friedman wrote: On 9/24/07, Michael Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: many people feel much differently, why not just a pure proprietary license then, rather than proliferating Yet Another Silly License which is not tempered by sound legal analysis.

Re: Can the following license be used for ported programs?

2007-09-24 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I never claimed to be original... if you want to see the innovator/largest code base in the community look at jahia.com... the only claim I made was I wanted to have my stuff included in the ports collection and wanted to know if the legal aspects of my business model where sufficient... one of

Re: Can the following license be used for ported programs?

2007-09-24 Thread David Southwell
On Monday 24 September 2007 07:54:25 Aryeh Friedman wrote: I never claimed to be original... if you want to see the innovator/largest code base in the community look at jahia.com... the only claim I made was I wanted to have my stuff included in the ports collection and wanted to know if the

Re: Can the following license be used for ported programs?

2007-09-24 Thread Philipp Ost
Aryeh Friedman wrote: [...] the only claim I made was I wanted to have my stuff included in the ports collection and wanted to know if the legal aspects of my business model where sufficient... one of the first replies answered that... [...] There are other programs in the ports with much

Can the following license be used for ported programs?

2007-09-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
My company develops software under a commercial open source (see links for details) and I want to know if my license is close enough to open source (see links for why it is not 100% OSD compliant [it is 95% compliant]). Specifically does the business model as outlined in my blog (the third

Re: Can the following license be used for ported programs?

2007-09-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
If you read the 1st blog entry and the FAQ for the certifying agency you will see why dual licenses are: 1. For the most part impossible to prevent the free rider issue 2. Is inherently unfair to contributors 3. Without the fee for execution (instead of just commercial use) it is very hard to

Re: Can the following license be used for ported programs?

2007-09-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 9/24/07, Michael Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: many people feel much differently, why not just a pure proprietary license then, rather than proliferating Yet Another Silly License which is not tempered by sound legal analysis. Not to be insulting but I don't think you read my 1st blog

Re: Can the following license be used for ported programs?

2007-09-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
you more then welcome to join in on the conversation... right now due to the dns issue sited in the original posting we are doing it via a manual mailing list (cc everyone else) [I think that should be partially fixed by tomorrow afternoon] given that if you send any mail to the SIW community