Semi-automated License analysis and compatibility reporter:
http://www.mibsoftware.com/librock/lidesc/index.htm
What it does:
Based on answers to an HTML questionnaire, some conflicts with the GPL,
the FSF definition of Free software, the OSD, and closed-source
licensing are
In analyzing licenses for the LIDESC project
http://www.mibsoftware.com/librock/lidesc/index.htm
there are a few types of clauses which in my mind do
not meet the spirit of the OSD, but are not clearly
rejected by it.
Some of these came up by looking at which licenses pass
the OSD, but are
Hello!
Sorry if I bother all of you with a question probably stupid or with an
already existent answer...
I'm trying to write a bookmarks organizer in Java, and I'm using the
GPL. Now I need an XML parser, but the only Java non commercial parser I
found is released under the Apache Software
Thanks, please post whatever else you come across regarding the OSD.
-Original Message-
From: Forrest J. Cavalier III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 8:34 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: OSD fuzziness/omissions?
In analyzing
begin Kenny Tilton quotation:
What contradiction do you see?
I spoke of no contradiction. To repeat: I was unclear on the nature of
your question.
At first, you said you were planning to release some software under the
GNU GPL, but wanted our insights into the implications of these two
begin Chris D. Sloan quotation:
You have no right to create derivative works unless that right is
granted by the copyright holder.
I'm sorry, but weren't we talking about code under one version or
another of the GPL? If this discussion is going to trot out all of
copyright law every five
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 03:33:36PM -0800, David Johnson wrote:
Perhaps you might want to look at another license altogether. There are
several weak to moderate copyleft licenses (MPL, QPL, etc) that may fit your
needs without making you feel cheap-and-easy for using them. Or maybe
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
BSD allows other to fork your code, extend and embrace it and never ever
compensate you for anything (see the case of microsoft's ftp client, for
instance) if they so wish.
You say that as if it's a bad thing. Put another way, the BSD license
On Monday 10 December 2001 05:06 pm, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 03:33:36PM -0800, David Johnson wrote:
Perhaps you might want to look at another license altogether. There are
several weak to moderate copyleft licenses (MPL, QPL, etc) that may fit
your needs without
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