Re: A practical example of a click-wrap license

2002-08-04 Thread Eric S Raymond
Lawrence E. Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > This scenario argues for permitting click-to-use but not > > click-to-redistribute. > > Yes, but also requiring my redistributors to implement click-to-use. One presumes that would be the intent of the license. -- http://www.tuxedo.o

RE: A practical example of a click-wrap license

2002-08-04 Thread Lawrence E. Rosen
> This scenario argues for permitting click-to-use but not > click-to-redistribute. Yes, but also requiring my redistributors to implement click-to-use. /Larry -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3

Re: Legal soundness comes to open source distribution

2002-08-04 Thread David Johnson
On Sunday 04 August 2002 12:18 am, Mahesh T Pai wrote: > What is really necessary is a campaign to take Open Source Software > outside the scope of (compulsory) statutory product liability. I would hesitate to limit liability on the basis of Open Sourcedness. Rather, I would base it on the comm

Re: A practical example of a click-wrap license

2002-08-04 Thread Eric S Raymond
Lawrence E. Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In order to satisfy my attorney's concerns that the above provisions be > enforceable, I am instructed to ensure that there is a clear > manifestation of assent to my license. (My attorney has read Specht v. > Netscape.) I wish to do this by a click-wrap

A practical example of a click-wrap license

2002-08-04 Thread Lawrence E. Rosen
Please consider the following scenario: I create a program that I want to release to the world under an open source license ("KillerApp", or "KA"). I want to provide all the rights to the KA code that the OSD mandates, including the rights to use, copy, make modifications, and distribute. I als

Re: Legal soundness comes to open source distribution

2002-08-04 Thread Mahesh T Pai
Bruce Perens wrote: >http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/D02NYSC/01-07482.PDF . > > This is the kind of case (the facts disclosed by the case - not the decision in the legal sense) which arises coz. you claim to provide the user with one thing, and take away something else without telli

Re: Open Software License

2002-08-04 Thread Mahesh T Pai
Lawrence E. Rosen wrote: >I welcome your feedback. > > "Licensor hereby grants You a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, non-sublicenseable license to do the following:" Does not re-distribution amount to sublicense? Regards, Mahesh T. Pai. ___