What happens if you, in the USA, prepare a derivative work
based on two OSL licensed pieces of code, one from, say,
Taiwan, and the other from France.
You are obligated under two licenses, one from the licensor in Taiwan
and the other from the licensor in France. Nothing unusual here with
Henry Pijffers wrote:
However, suppose big US company didn't register to do business
anywhere in Europe, and just licensed some open source software to
me through the Internet, and later decides to change their mind, then
how can I defend my rights on anything I did with their software
You are obligated under two licenses, one from the licensor in Taiwan
and the other from the licensor in France. Nothing unusual here with
respect to the OSL.
Two licenses with different effective terms; there is not one OSL, but
one for each of the 100+ countries in the world. It means
From: Larry Rosen
You are obligated under two licenses, one from the licensor
in Taiwan
and the other from the licensor in France. Nothing unusual
here with
respect to the OSL.
From: David Woolley [mailto:david;djwhome.demon.co.uk]
Two licenses with different effective terms;
think the terms of the OSL are different, or will be interpreted
differently, in those other countries? It is true that the OSL -- and
The fact that you said that the choice of law was determined by the
licensor; if it is unlikely to change, there will be less uncertainty
for licensees if it
Last Month, I posted the attached new iteration of the
Reciprocal Public License(version 1.1). There were
some criticisms of this license that were made,
but I don't think anything showed that the
conditions in the RPL were outside the OSI guidelines.
What do we need to do to get approval on
The amount of damages that courts would award might vary considerably from
one jurisdiction to the next, even if the license is interpreted exactly the
same way. Without naming any names wink, some countries are just more
litigious than others; some courts, more punitive.
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Thank you very much for clearing up my FUD. Well, I have never hidden the
fact that I'm no legal scholar, and this is proof once again that a little
knowledge can be a dangerous thing.
I can only speak for myself, but between this and the discussions we had
privately, I'm finally comfortable
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