Re: [License-discuss] License which requires watermarking? (Attribution Provision)

2012-12-19 Thread Rick Moen
Minor correction (proving that I shouldn't post to these subjects in a hurry while working on other things): > Getting back to what I was groggily trying to say last night: My sense > is that OSI's approval of CPAL back in '07 was motivated in part by a > perception that a modest badgeware requir

Re: [License-discuss] License which requires watermarking? (Attribution Provision)

2012-12-19 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Richard Fontana (rfont...@redhat.com): > Actually, section 7 of GPLv3 was intended to allow a limited form of > badgeware (as well as certain other kinds of restrictions). But the > example cited by the original poster: > http://www.nopcommerce.com/licensev3.aspx > goes well beyond what t

Re: [License-discuss] License which requires watermarking? (Attribution Provision)

2012-12-19 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Richard Fontana (rfont...@redhat.com): > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:34:33AM -0500, Richard Fontana wrote: > > I believe that the OSI's approval of CPAL (the license you may be > > intentionally not naming) was, in retrospect, wrongly decided. > > To be fair, and to spread the blame around

Re: [License-discuss] License which requires watermarking? (Attribution Provision)

2012-12-19 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting John Cowan (co...@mercury.ccil.org): > You should add this to the KB; I did check there, but with no success. OK, I'll see about that. > > http://linuxgazette.net/159/misc/lg/sugarcrm_and_badgeware_licensing_again.html > > Offline, alas. It's reachable now. I'll soon be mirroring it o