Affero GPL. Badgeware?

2002-03-20 Thread Forrest J. Cavalier III
"Free Software Foundation Announces Support of the Affero General Public License, the First Copyleft License for Web Services" http://www.fsf.org/press/2002-03-19-Affero.html I think clause Affero GPL 2(d) provides for the propagation of "badgeware", meaning that it obligates propagation of a b

Affero GPL. Big loophole?

2002-03-20 Thread Forrest J Cavalier III
"Free Software Foundation Announces Support of the Affero General Public License, the First Copyleft License for Web Services" http://www.fsf.org/press/2002-03-19-Affero.html (NOTE: The FSF suggests comments to them. I CC'ed them, but I'd prefer discussion in a forum. license-discuss seems

RE: Discuss: UoI/NCSA Open Source License

2002-03-20 Thread John Taylor McEntire
Larry: Thank you for your insightful comments. Your acknowledgement that there may be reasons to merge the BSD and MIT licenses, is greatly appreciated. Please note that our intent was that this license be unrestricted as I believe was the intent in the MIT and BSD licenses. When we embarked a

Re: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. MICROMONITOR SOFTWARE PUBLIC LICENSE AGREEMENT

2002-03-20 Thread Ed Sutter
Dave, Here's the scoop from Lucent Legal... > Lucent has made a policy decision not to seek third party > approvals of any of our licensing agreements. Hopefully, you can live with the current license. It was drafted to be as close to open source as Lucent's internal IP practices would allow.

RE: The Feudal Lord Analogy (Response to Mr Stallman)

2002-03-20 Thread I.R.Maturana
Ok. I present general public excuses for my prompt response, included to Mr Stallman. This kind of happening is somehow superfluous, and helps nobody to understand the true questions. I will retain myself from any message till next Sunday at least. Thanks for all, I am sorry because the noi

RE: The Feudal Lord Analogy (Response to Mr Stallman)

2002-03-20 Thread I.R.Maturana
> I was responding to this text, written by someone in this discussion > (I don't know who, but it isn't crucial). Uh ! Mr Stallman, I wonder if you are saying either you have nothing to say or that you prefer to talk with some spirits. You can name me, I have a name. > Describing software as