Re: Zeratec Public License

1999-07-13 Thread Pat St. Jean
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mark Wells wrote: I think Bruce mis-stated his point to some extent, but he's right. A license written in terms of 'understandings' rather than specific assignment of permissions to the licensee is ambiguous. This makes it both harder for the end user (as opposed to the

Re: GPL and LGPL question

1999-05-19 Thread Pat St. Jean
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Seth David Schoen wrote: Wilfredo Sanchez writes: Well, that sort of scrutiny _has_ been applied to the GPL on many lists for many years, so that many people are sick of it. :-) Take a look at gnu.misc.discuss, and you should find such a thread fairly quickly. Yeah, and it

Re: GPL and LGPL question

1999-05-19 Thread Pat St. Jean
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Bruce Perens wrote: Re: the GPL standing up in court: a law student mailed me a 100+ page thesis on that topic. He said it would stand up in court. I have not yet had time to study his arguments thoroughly, too much travel. Hopefully I can do this next week. Did that law