Re: [License-discuss] New maintainer, changing license?

2017-07-29 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Saturday 29. July 2017 11.16, David Woolley wrote: > On 29/07/17 09:38, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: > > I am the new upstream maintainer of the cd ripper Grip > > What do you mean by the maintainer? The copyright holder stopped working on the project in 2005. I am continuing the d

[License-discuss] New maintainer, changing license?

2017-07-29 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
of the * License, or (at your option) any later version. == Some files are licenced under the Lesser GPL, with the same type of terms saying that one can use a later version. My question is: Does this mean that I can change it to say it's released under GPL version 3 and later? -- Joh

Re: [License-discuss] Moderator Advice

2017-06-21 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
), and my experience is that the happens because some people uses «Reply to all» when responding. -- Johnny A. Solbu web site, http://www.solbu.net PGP key ID: 0x4F5AD64DFA687324 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Licens

Re: [License-discuss] Copyright holders evolution with MIT license

2015-06-09 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
the oldest entry first. I would do this: Copyright (c) 2014 Company1 Copyright (c) 2015 Company2 That is what we do when translating .po files. -- Johnny A. Solbu web site, http://www.solbu.net PGP key ID: 0xFA687324 signature.asc Description: This is a digi

Re: [License-discuss] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses

2015-03-12 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
not have to abide by the license restrictions. -- Johnny A. Solbu web site, http://www.solbu.net PGP key ID: 0xFA687324 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensour

Re: [License-discuss] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses

2015-03-10 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
ted, as long as you followed the terms of the license. -- Johnny A. Solbu web site, http://www.solbu.net PGP key ID: 0xFA687324 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@

Re: [License-discuss] 3-clause BSD with additional clause forbidding key disclosure

2015-02-05 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
be incompatible with the OSS > standards, then we will go back to the drawing board and start > negotiating a different solution. The suggestion from a few of us is to license the key separate from the rest of the software. I don't see any other way to do it if you want to ma

Re: [License-discuss] 3-clause BSD and reverse engineering

2015-01-17 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
rived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software." === My understanding is that your additional clause would violate that definition, and no longer qualify as Open Source. -- Johnny A. Solbu web site, http://www.solbu.net PGP key ID: 0xF