Re: [License-discuss] Category B licenses at Apache

2015-08-26 Thread David Woolley
On 26/08/15 01:45, Tzeng, Nigel H. wrote: Larry, Scenario A: I’m looking for an example in my codebase on how to do Foo (of course) and I find a code snippet to do roughly what I want. I cut and paste it into where I need it, modify it slightly and move on. Developers do this all the time.

Re: [License-discuss] Option to fall back from GPL to ASL

2015-08-26 Thread David Woolley
On 25/08/15 22:26, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote: The vendors of BAR also offer a commercial license for BAR. If somebody buys that license, we want them to be able to use FOO under the commercial-friendly ASL terms without having to give them any extra permission. Right now, those people

Re: [License-discuss] Option to fall back from GPL to ASL

2015-08-26 Thread Kevin Fleming
Also, in this situation, the copyright holders of BAR (and thus the licensors) are the parties that would have standing to pursue any action against a distributor who distributes a derivative work of BAR without following the terms of its license (the GPL, or a commercial license). If someone has

Re: [License-discuss] Companies that encourage license violations

2015-08-26 Thread Kevin Fleming
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Chris Ochs ch...@ochsnet.com wrote: Some of these addons are themselves open source. The majority of the time the authors of these are not including the open source license. Which I think is legally ok, I'm guessing it actually just creates a dual license,