(To the folks on the license-discuss list.) As you may know,
Perl is currently undergoing a rewrite. As part of this
rewrite licensing is being reviewed, and we are attempting
to come up with an Artistic License that is (*ahem*) on
somewhat better grounds than the current one. This is my
curren
Our company is going to develop a product that will be available on
multiple platforms. We believe in the benefits of open source software,
and want to put our software under an open source license.
However, to ensure a revenue from our effort, we would like to add
an additional restriction to the
Bjorn,
Here is a pointer to a press release from SGI that announces the
upcoming open source licensing of the OpenGL trademark and logo, plus
availability of their conformance tests. I haven't been able to find
the license text on their site, but the press release indicates it
should have been re
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 16:12:11 +0300, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> we would like to add an additional restriction to the GNU GPL license: to
> disallow distribution of the software in *compiled* form on non-open
> source operating systems. Unfortunately this is not compliant with the
> Open Source D
begin J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) quotation:
> Distributions contribute IMHO to an underlying part of the free
> software philosophy: enabling everyone to use free software. Building
> software from source is something only a small part of humankind knows
> (or wants to know) how to do.
One might agree
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> However, to ensure a revenue from our effort, we would like to add
> an additional restriction to the GNU GPL license: to disallow
> distribution of the software in *compiled* form on non-open
> source operating systems. Unfortunately this is not comp
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> Our company is going to develop a product that will be available on
> multiple platforms. We believe in the benefits of open source software,
> and want to put our software under an open source license.
> However, to ensure a revenue from our effort, w
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, John Cowan wrote:
> > I am sure we can make money even we place the software under the GPL
> > for all OSes, but the question is for how long? How do we prevent
> > anyone from taking our business by simply copying what we are doing?
> > I cannot convince myself that we can m
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Ben Tilly wrote:
> (To the folks on the license-discuss list.) As you may know,
> Perl is currently undergoing a rewrite. As part of this
> rewrite licensing is being reviewed, and we are attempting
> to come up with an Artistic License that is (*ahem*) on
> somewhat better
David Johnson wrote:
>
>On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Ben Tilly wrote:
> > (To the folks on the license-discuss list.) As you may know,
> > Perl is currently undergoing a rewrite. As part of this
> > rewrite licensing is being reviewed, and we are attempting
> > to come up with an Artistic License that i
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Ben Tilly wrote:
> >This is a vastly different license than the old version. So I have to
> >ask, why the *huge* change? Another question is why there is a separate
> >agreement?
>
> ...[snip]...
>
> Does that answer why I might want to propose a major rewrite?
Yes it does.
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