Re: [License-discuss] proposal to revise and slightly reorganize the OSI licensing pages

2012-06-10 Thread Bruce Perens
On 06/10/2012 10:49 PM, Rick Moen wrote: I believe this is entirely consistent with what I said, Bruce. You even said 'Read caselaw.' I think we need to come to grips to the fact that it may be possible for GPL software to be embedded within a proprietary software product a la NuSphere withou

Re: [License-discuss] proposal to revise and slightly reorganize the OSI licensing pages

2012-06-10 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Bruce Perens (br...@perens.com): > I'm glad Rick's done. There is a good chance that you, not Rick, are > right. Recent case law is that APIs are bright lines between > separate works and that connections across APIs do not create > derivative works. And this is regardless of the way softw

Re: [License-discuss] proposal to revise and slightly reorganize the OSI licensing pages

2012-06-10 Thread Bruce Perens
On 06/09/2012 01:53 AM, Rick Moen wrote: Read caselaw. I'm done. I'm glad Rick's done. There is a good chance that you, not Rick, are right. Recent case law is that APIs are bright lines between separate works and that connections across APIs do not create derivative works. And this is regardl