On 04/30/2012 08:36 AM, Kevin Hunter wrote:
I'm not looking for responses along the lines of you can't enforce it
so ignore it. I'm very specifically focused on the licensing aspect.
Hi Kevin,
People who understand what they're doing won't generally write a license
that can't be enforced
You probably have already done this but I suggest seeing if the
ScienceCommons and NeuroCommons projects offers something to your liking.
http://neurocommons.org/page/Main_Page
http://creativecommons.org/science
It would be highly useful to have a single set of licenses to cover data,
software
On 04/30/2012 10:13 AM, John Cowan wrote:
Conditional copyright licenses are most closely analogous to
conditional licenses to enter land
:-)
Well, this is more than a bit of a stretch, but I can argue it this way
if you like.
Of course, in civil law land, licenses are contracts, period.
Karl Fogel scripsit:
I can find no record of approval of the Academic Free License prior to
3.0. As of 2006-10-31, we were linking to /licenses/afl-3.0.php,
and now of course we link to http://opensource.org/licenses/AFL-3.0.
http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://opensource.org/licenses/*
Kevin,
If you want to make everything fit in the framework of Free Software,
you can get a lawyer for free through the Software Freedom Conservancy,
and there is a well-established history of them going to court for their
clients. But you have to fit in their parameters of Free Software.
I can find no record of approval of the Academic Free License prior to
3.0. As of 2006-10-31, we were linking to /licenses/afl-3.0.php,
and now of course we link to http://opensource.org/licenses/AFL-3.0.
http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://opensource.org/licenses/* is your
friend.
John, wow. Thank you so much for that incredibly helpful mail. I'm not
going to have time to incorporate all this information into our site
between now and the next OSI board meeting (this Wednesday), but knowing
this is in the archives makes some upcoming tasks much less daunting!
-K
John
Lawrence Rosen lro...@rosenlaw.com writes:
Indeed, my internal wayback machine can assure you that all were
approved by the OSI board.
Heh, good to have that confirmation.
I previously requested that the earlier versions of those licenses be
deprecated. There is probably still software in the
Michael Bernstein mich...@fandomhome.com writes:
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:19 PM, John Cowan co...@mercury.ccil.org wrote:
Karl Fogel scripsit:
I can find no record of approval of the Academic Free License prior to
3.0. As of 2006-10-31, we were linking to /licenses/afl-3.0.php,
and now of
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