Re: [License-discuss] Does this look like an open source license?

2015-01-30 Thread Wilson, Andrew
Tom Callaway wrote: I would suggest that it would be better to have a proper legal translation done of the 3c-BSD into Chinese, than to have a weak simple English version for the rest of the world to struggle with. +1 It would be an interesting exercise to have qualified legal

Re: [License-discuss] [Osi] [General enquiries] Dual License for CC0

2014-04-03 Thread Wilson, Andrew
Luis Villa wrote: Ø On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Wilson, Andrew andrew.wil...@intel.commailto:andrew.wil...@intel.com wrote: Ø with the distinctive feature that it explicitly disclaims patent licensing Ø Ø in the current legal climate, that is not a distinctive feature

Re: [License-discuss] [Osi] [General enquiries] Dual License for CC0

2014-04-02 Thread Wilson, Andrew
Kuno Woud wrote: On 04/01/2014 10:44 PM, Wilson, Andrew wrote: In a legal system where PD is not recognized, e.g. Europe, then the effective portion of CC0 is presumably not the PD declaration but the permissive license. As other posters have noted, that permissive license

Re: [License-discuss] [Osi] [General enquiries] Dual License for CC0

2014-04-01 Thread Wilson, Andrew
odie5...@gmail.com writes: Hi. I see questions about CC0 and public domain dedication pop up all the time on message boards. In the FAQ, it goes through why these licenses are not currently OSI approved. I was wondering if you could amend the FAQ to put forth the option that developers can

Re: [License-discuss] Special clauses added to OSI-approved licenses: are they OK, and if not, what can/should we do about it?

2012-01-08 Thread Wilson, Andrew
Richard Fontana wrote: The intended license of Roundcube skins/plugins seems OK (GPL plus additional permissions [or copyleft clarifications if you prefer]) but could probably be drafted more clearly. Agreed. Looks like an additional permission wrt skins/plugins which is well within the