Re: Choosing the right license

2000-11-02 Thread Charlie Stross
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 11:02:59AM +, David Johnson wrote: If the license forbids charging customers for any service that is theirs to provide then it will have a very tough time being approped as either OSS or FS. To translate your wishes another way, you want "to make it difficult

Re: Choosing the right license

2000-11-02 Thread Mark Hatch
At 11:05 AM 11/2/2000 +, David Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 01 November 2000 07:02 pm, Mark Hatch wrote: The intention here sounds similar to the Open Motif Public License (sic) and the QPL. The OMPL requires royalties for use on non-"open systems" and the original QPL was open source

Re: Choosing the right license

2000-11-02 Thread Philipp Guehring
Am Don, 02 Nov 2000 schrieben Sie: On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 11:02:59AM +, David Johnson wrote: If the license forbids charging customers for any service that is theirs to provide then it will have a very tough time being approped as either OSS or FS. To translate your wishes

Re: Choosing the right license

2000-11-02 Thread David Johnson
On Thursday 02 November 2000 03:23 pm, Mark Hatch wrote: If I understand your comment about the new QPL correctly, it prohibits use by closed source applications and proprietary use (I thought that there was also some prohibition in QPL on systems that didn't support the X Window System -

Re: Choosing the right license

2000-11-02 Thread Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M.
On selling software, From section 1 of the GNU GPL: "1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty;

Re: revised GPL?

2000-11-02 Thread kmself
on Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 07:18:28PM -0400, Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Your message has engaged my curiosity. Why are discussions about open source/FSF licenses being held in secret? It seems to me that we all should be informed of not only the status of these

Re: LGPL and the OSD

2000-11-02 Thread John Cowan
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Bryan George wrote: It seems that, since shared library mechanisms in commercial embedded systems are quite rare, this provision is a license trap against the field of commercial embedded systems development, which if so would be a clear violation of OSD clause 6. You