Re: Licensing

2009-05-08 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Steve Bertrand wrote: > I've got a question that is likely not suited for this list, but I know > that there are people here who can guide me off-list. > > Being a network engineer, I'm far from a developer. With that said, I've > written numerous network automatio

Re: Licensing

2009-05-08 Thread Mike Jeays
On May 8, 2009 01:09:51 am Steve Bertrand wrote: > I've got a question that is likely not suited for this list, but I know > that there are people here who can guide me off-list. > > Being a network engineer, I'm far from a developer. With that said, I've > written numerous network automation progr

Re: Licensing

2009-05-08 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Mike Jeays wrote: > On May 8, 2009 01:09:51 am Steve Bertrand wrote: > > I've got a question that is likely not suited for this list, but I know > > that there are people here who can guide me off-list. > > > > Being a network engineer, I'm far from a developer. Wi

Re: Licensing

2009-05-08 Thread Jon Radel
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Mike Jeays wrote: I would keep away from the term 'public domain', which means you would lose any rights to it whatsoever. Public Domain does NOT invalidate Copyright : The owner of the work is the copyright holder . Public Do

Re: Licensing

2009-05-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 01:09:51AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > I've got a question that is likely not suited for this list, but I know > that there are people here who can guide me off-list. > > Being a network engineer, I'm far from a developer. With that said, I've > written numerous network

Re: Licensing

2009-05-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 01:09:51AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > I'm looking for advice on how I can take all of my code, and license it > into the public domain. I'm sure that most people won't have any > interest in it, but I really want to ensure that what I have done is > freely accessible.

Re: Licensing

2009-05-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
Chad Perrin wrote: [..huge snip..] > I hope you get some value from my rambling. I have gained very much value from what everyone has had to say, and I want to thank everyone. Although I have very much reading to do, I've come to a few conclusions thus far. One thing that did not cross my mind

Re: Licensing

2009-05-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 09:47:52AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > One thing that did not cross my mind prior was regarding the comments > Chad made, use in media other than within the programming scope itself. I think that's an important consideration that most programmers overlook. One of the

[Fwd: Re: licensing]

2004-08-18 Thread Mike Jeays
I omitted sending this reply to Chris to the list by mistake. Please correct me if I am wrong. --- Begin Message --- On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 11:06, Chris Knipe wrote: > Quick question > > I'm not sure about the license that FreeBSD falls under. Are we allowed to modify > code (specifically /sb

Re: Licensing issues

2003-12-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:05:45AM +0100, Elektronix Support wrote: > Dear support / sales, FreeBSD does not have the sort of corporate structure you're expecting: basically it's a bunch of people who have got together to write an operating system. You've connected to a mailing list used for answ

Re: Licensing issues

2003-12-19 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Elektronix Support wrote: > versions of FreeBSD on our hardware solutions, and sell to him. The > organization we will sell this to is the end-user. .. > I need to know if we can install FreeBSD and charge our customer for this, > or if there are restrictions we must be awar

Re: Licensing question about GPL/LGPL binaries

2007-02-23 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
[freebsd-emulation cut from cc] On Feb 23, 2007, at 5:53 AM, Kövesdán Gábor wrote: The question is that can we extract and provide these binaries in a simple tar.gz file or is that considered a GPL/LGPL violation? The sources are freely available on slackware.com, but we are not sure doin

Re: Licensing question about GPL/LGPL binaries

2007-02-24 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: "Jeffrey Goldberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kövesdán Gábor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 9:02 AM Subject: Re: Licensing question about GPL/LGPL binaries > [freebsd-emulation cut from cc] > >

Re: Licensing question about GPL/LGPL binaries

2007-02-25 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
Ted Mittelstaedt schrieb: - Original Message - From: "Jeffrey Goldberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kövesdán Gábor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 9:02 AM Subject: Re: Licensing question about GPL/LGPL binaries [freebsd-em

Re: Licensing question about GPL/LGPL binaries

2007-02-25 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Feb 25, 2007, at 8:26 AM, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: Thanks for the answers to both of you. Szivesen We just modify the packaging of the file: gzipped tarball instead of floppy images, so it will be fine to redistribute them with the pointer to the sources then. Yes. As a shameless plug,