Re: [License-discuss] MakeHuman, CC0 and AGPL

2017-10-25 Thread John Cowan
fically. But in general, a work that combines public-domain material and copyrighted material is itself subject to copyright, provided the copyrighted material is used under license. Obviously, if the creator of the combined work and of the copyrighted material are the same, such a license isn't hard to obta

Re: [License-discuss] MakeHuman, CC0 and AGPL

2017-10-25 Thread John Cowan
ompiled from a BSD source are (at least arguably) under the GPL if other bits in the same executable come from GPLed source. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org The whole of Gaul is quartered into three halves. --Julius Caesar

Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: (no subject)

2017-09-05 Thread John Cowan
ll to Congress for any reason: whether it gets paid is another story. Francis Hopkinson sent a such a bill for designing the American flag, asking to be paid a "Quarter Cask of the Public Wine", but Congress denied it on the grounds that Hopkinson was already a paid membe

Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: NOSA 2.0, Copyfraud and the US Government

2017-09-01 Thread John Cowan
> Just to double check, droit d’auteur is the equivalent of moral rights, > correct? > Yes, but it generally extends to all types of works. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Verbogeny is one of the pleasurettes of a creatific thi

Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: NOSA 2.0, Copyfraud and the US Government

2017-08-28 Thread John Cowan
option, and the EU countries are effectively forbidden to do so by EU case law. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org But the next day there came no dawn, and the Grey Company passed on into the darkness of the Storm of Mordor and were lost to mortal s

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

2017-07-29 Thread John Cowan
ht of exploitation of all uses known and unknown can be transferred exclusively, which amounts to the same thing. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Awk!" sed Grep. "A fscking python is perloining my Ruby; let me bash him with a Cshell! Vi

Re: [License-discuss] FreeAndFair license

2017-06-21 Thread John Cowan
tructor discipline a la Haskell). -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. --Gerald Holton ___ License-discu

Re: [License-discuss] FreeAndFair license

2017-06-21 Thread John Cowan
", people fear what they do not understand. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that optimum or inadequate performance in the trend of competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be c

Re: [License-discuss] FreeAndFair license

2017-06-21 Thread John Cowan
ve terms? WHAT DO THEY WANT? Gummint lawyers can be just as fearful of what they don't understand as any other lawyers. Indeed, their clients probably have more to lose. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org In my last lifetime, I believed in reincarnation; i

Re: [License-discuss] FreeAndFair license

2017-06-21 Thread John Cowan
e library. The author can do this because he is free to violate his own license to create the readline-free version of the code, but users would not be. (Nowadays this wouldn't be necessary, as there are drop-in replacements for readline, but the principle is still the same.) -- John Cowan

Re: [License-discuss] FreeAndFair license

2017-06-21 Thread John Cowan
fy (some) such ideologues without alienating others. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Sound change operates regularly to produce irregularities; analogy operates irregularly to produce regularities. --E.H. Sturtevant, c

Re: [License-discuss] GPLv1?

2017-06-18 Thread John Cowan
ot; category, for what that's worth. The differences as shown by wdiff are chiefly editorial, with the exception of sections 7 and 8 of the GPLv2, which don't exist in GPLv1. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Even a refrigerator can conform to the XML Infoset, as l

Re: [License-discuss] notes on a systematic approach to "popular" licenses

2017-04-07 Thread John Cowan
ses/tags/OSI-Approved > For people who like opinionated wizards, there's also mine, currently hosted at <http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan/floss/>. It asks you questions about what you want your license to do, and then steers you to the 3-clause BSD, the Apache 2.0, the GPL 2.0, or the LGPL 2.

Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: Possible alternative was: Re: U.S. Army Research Laboratory Open Source License (ARL OSL) Version 0.4.1

2017-03-20 Thread John Cowan
separate and unrelated in the two definitions.) Note also that debian-legal does not control what actually gets into Debian; that decision is in the hands of the trusted committers. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org There is a Darwinian explanation for the refusal

Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: Possible alternative was: Re: U.S. Army Research Laboratory Open Source License (ARL OSL) Version 0.4.1

2017-03-16 Thread John Cowan
robably not certify it, but it would still be an open source license. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Dievas dave dantis; Dievas duos duonos--Lithuanian proverb Deus dedit dentes; deus dabit panem --Latin version thereof Deity dona

Re: [License-discuss] Protecting database integrity

2017-03-05 Thread John Cowan
leases to those same OEMs. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Don't be so humble. You're not that great. --Golda Meir ___ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensou

Re: [License-discuss] Protecting database integrity

2017-03-05 Thread John Cowan
s better off if there's just One Big Network), then you should make the case in your documentation. Most people use a public blockchain, for good and sufficient reasons, but there is nothing stopping anyone from setting up their own blockchains, and people do if they have use for it.

Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: OSI equivalent

2017-02-16 Thread John Cowan
he judges'. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Income tax, if I may be pardoned for saying so, is a tax on income. --Lord Macnaghten (1901) ___ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.

Re: [License-discuss] step by step interpretation of common permissive licenses

2017-01-18 Thread John Cowan
n prove an embarrassment and produce results very far from your actual intentions. Eh, ha! You see?' ["Daffy-down-dilly" was 16C legal slang for a lawyer who took money from both sides of a litigation, and as such a very serious charge indeed, tending to produce a breach of the peac

Re: [License-discuss] step by step interpretation of common permissive licenses

2017-01-18 Thread John Cowan
yright interest, because he selected which of Charlie's words to use. Since Bob typically has more money than Charlie, this works out to the advantage of both Bob and Charlie. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Your worships will perhaps be thinking tha

Re: [License-discuss] step by step interpretation of common permissive licenses

2017-01-13 Thread John Cowan
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Massimo Zaniboni < massimo.zanib...@asterisell.com> wrote: Probably I'm wrong, but I'm curious to understand where. So if someone has > the patience to read the post, can report here a fault part of my > reasoning, so I can understand better and maybe discuss?

Re: [License-discuss] notes on a systematic approach to "popular" licenses

2017-01-11 Thread John Cowan
ta-driven list will merely reflect the prejudices and fashions, not even of today, but of the past, since open-source software once published rarely disappears. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Using RELAX NG compact syntax to develop schemas is o

Re: [License-discuss] Views on React licensing?

2016-12-12 Thread John Cowan
it being economically inefficient to sue a huge list of known and unknown customers, not a derogation of their right to do so. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Knowledge studies others / Wisdom is self-known; Muscle masters brothers / Self-mastery

Re: [License-discuss] Views on React licensing?

2016-12-12 Thread John Cowan
ally the right to prevent use by anyone else, how can they say "Use it" when they mean "If you use it and Yoyodyne sues you for infringement of our (original) patent, it's your problem"? -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Kill Gorgun! K

Re: [License-discuss] Views on React licensing?

2016-12-12 Thread John Cowan
have issued? Apprarently so. At that point several of us pointed out that the much older MIT license already contained a universal patent grant; the MIT folks said "We never meant it to." -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org We call nothing profound that is

Re: [License-discuss] Views on React licensing?

2016-12-12 Thread John Cowan
the 2-clause BSD license, does *not* grant a patent license. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Higglédy-pigglèdy / XML programmers Try to escape those / I-eighteen-N woes; Incontrovertibly / What we need more of is Unicode weenies and / Franç

Re: [License-discuss] Views on React licensing?

2016-12-06 Thread John Cowan
(if you read it literally) or grants all rights (if you interpret the magic word "use" as referring to patents). -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org One of the oil men in heaven started a rumor of a gusher down in hell. All the other oil men left in a

Re: [License-discuss] Using opensource in a company not in the software business

2016-11-29 Thread John Cowan
the quotes are chosen at random by a script from <http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan/signatures>, but sometimes I choose one on purpose. I've been collecting and using them for 30+ years. ___ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http

Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: U.S. Army Research Laboratory Open Source License (ARL OSL) 0.4.0

2016-08-18 Thread John Cowan
erm of zero years in its home country, so it has a copyright term of zero years here." Or it might apply its local law as if the work were a local work. Or it might do something else. Conflicts law is still rather primitive and unpredictable. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/

Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: U.S. Army Research Laboratory Open Source License (ARL OSL) 0.4.0

2016-08-18 Thread John Cowan
o had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an _attorney_'." --Boswell's Life of Johnson :-) -- John Cowan http://w

Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: U.S. Army Research Laboratory Open Source License (ARL OSL) 0.4.0

2016-08-16 Thread John Cowan
Lawrence Rosen scripsit: > Is this a resurrection of the old "license vs. contract" dispute that > we buried long ago? That is not dead which can eternal lie (see .sig). -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org La mayyitan ma qadirun yatabaqqa

Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: US Army Research Laboratory Open Source License proposal

2016-08-03 Thread John Cowan
behind a paywall, I'd like to read more > of it. Me too. Ask a lawyer friend to send you a copy (and me, while you're at it). My father's preprint copy moldered away a long time ago. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Business before pleasure, if not t

Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: US Army Research Laboratory Open Source License proposal

2016-08-03 Thread John Cowan
A's country, or any other country, of course. But they don't have to, which is what makes conflicts cases so interesting to a sufficiently geeky mind. And a country can certainly grant more rights to A than a treaty requires it to. See T. A. Cowan, "Marks of Primitivity in the Conflict of La

Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: US Army Research Laboratory Open Source License proposal

2016-07-25 Thread John Cowan
rce.org/wiki/Copyright_Law_Revision_(Senate_Report_No._94-473) uses exactly the same words. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Ambassador Trentino: I've said enough. I'm a man of few words. Rufus T. Firefly: I'm a man of one word: scram!

Re: [License-discuss] US Army Research Laboratory Open Source License proposal

2016-07-22 Thread John Cowan
copyright holder" so that the license can be applied to works made as a whole or in part by contractors. The Appendix still says "Apache License". -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were stand

Re: [License-discuss] Does Non-Profit Open Software License fulfill the open source definition?

2016-06-27 Thread John Cowan
case, and perhaps it wouldn't be approved today. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. --Hal Abelson ___ License-discuss mailing li

Re: [License-discuss] Source-attribution licenses and Javascript compatibility

2016-05-28 Thread John Cowan
> break the magical spell of OSI compliance which zlib normally has? I don't see how. I am not a lawyer; this is not legal advice. On the other hand, it is not the unauthorized practice of law, either. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Is

Re: [License-discuss] Questions about translations

2016-02-03 Thread John Cowan
national law. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org In my last lifetime, I believed in reincarnation; in this lifetime, I don't. --Thiagi ___ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.openso

Re: [License-discuss] Orphan Works: Summary of proposed 17 USC 514

2015-12-05 Thread John Cowan
facto standard is pretty slack, you could find your own out of print books from a few years back being treated as "orphaned" because you didn't see the ad in the _East Grong Grong Sheep Ranchers' Weekly_ asking the author to write to P.O. Box 42 at once. -- John Cowan http://ww

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

2015-09-18 Thread John Cowan
an owner to revoke a bare license is inherent, it must be a promise not to exercise that right, and on what meeting of the minds, what consideration is that promise founded? Looks like a nudum pactum to me. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Is it not w

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

2015-09-16 Thread John Cowan
erely a promise (which may or may not rise to a contract) not to try to punish the doers of those things. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org A male Jang appeared at my side. "Get a grip on yourself," he said. "Get a grip on your graks," I

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

2015-09-16 Thread John Cowan
nyone? Who knows what secret source, or sauce, might underlie the current binary releases of Java? (The Shadow knows.) IANA, TINLA, but this is not UPL either. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Yes, chili in the eye is bad, but so is your ear. However, I would

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

2015-09-10 Thread John Cowan
uld cry too if it happened to you. (Well, *you* wouldn't, Larry, because you know better than to die intestate, but in general, it's a problem.) -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org The Imperials are decadent, 300 pound free-range chickens (except they have teeth

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

2015-09-06 Thread John Cowan
cts for GPL software. Don't contract > away your free software. I've never seen anyone actually try to do that, > which is why I'm confused by John Cowan's comment. I haven't heard of it either, but that may only be only because people don't usually announce that they've been snooker

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

2015-09-05 Thread John Cowan
show that the work was available under a proprietary license to allow you to download it and do those things. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org How they ever reached any conclusion at all is starkly unknowable to the human mind.--"Backstage Le

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

2015-08-25 Thread John Cowan
are in the U.S. (you didn't say). -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org MEET US AT POINT ORANGE AT MIDNIGHT BRING YOUR DUCK OR PREPARE TO FACE WUGGUMS ___ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https

Re: [License-discuss] Is what's made with Open Source, Open Source?

2015-06-12 Thread cowan
either. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org After fixing the Y2K bug in an application: WELCOME TO censored DATE: MONDAK, JANUARK 1, 1900 ___ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org

Re: [License-discuss] Is what's made with Open Source, Open Source?

2015-06-11 Thread cowan
. Almost certainly not. Before open-source Java systems existed, the FSF discouraged people from writing free Java apps, but didn't deny that an app released under a free license was free. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.en.html; there is no longer a Java trap, of course. -- John Cowan

Re: [License-discuss] Proposal: Apache Third Party License Policy

2015-05-29 Thread cowan
to do with license compatibility within the aggregation, and everything to do with what guarantees ASF (or any similar publisher) wishes to provide to its customers. I happen to think that their A, B, and X lists make a lot of sense and are substantially correct. -- John Cowan http

Re: [License-discuss] Proposal: Apache Third Party License Policy

2015-05-28 Thread cowan
a book by its cover or a clause by its title. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org My confusion is rapidly waxing For XML Schema's too taxing: I'd use DTDs / If they had local trees -- I think I best switch to RELAX NG

Re: [License-discuss] SF - LAFCO open source voting draft

2015-05-26 Thread John Cowan
Grahame Grieve scripsit: other licenses cannot be known to be or other licenses may not be - but you can't outright claim that just because OSI has not approved a license, it's *not* open source +1 -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Not to perambulate

Re: [License-discuss] Disclosure of patents by Apache projects

2015-05-25 Thread John Cowan
that the error was a libel _per se_. The Supremes decided that while all men are presumed to know the law (for it is an excuse that every man will pleaed, and no man know how to refute), there was no reason for a New York corporation to know Florida law as well as all that. -- John Cowan http

Re: [License-discuss] Disclosure of patents by Apache projects

2015-05-24 Thread John Cowan
obvious that Citrix should have known about it. None of this even hints that an engineer reading a patent and commenting on it in a NOTICE file is a risky behavior. I think it does hint at it, for the reason I give above. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org

Re: [License-discuss] Strong and weak copyleft

2015-04-09 Thread cowan
to be incorporated in a larger proprietary work, whereas a strong copyleft license does not (at least in the FSF's opinion). This seems an appropriate distinction for general use. Neither of these should be confused with Grave and Perilous Licenses. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

Re: [License-discuss] Shortest copyleft licence

2015-03-31 Thread John Cowan
to avoid in a very short, non-weak copyleft licence. I'd be keen to be proven wrong on that point, though. Simply add or under the GNU General Purpose License (any version). In practice, the GPL is the only major copyleft software commons. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

Re: [License-discuss] Shortest copyleft licence

2015-03-30 Thread cowan
directly. If someone felt like proposing something like 2-clause BSD + the above, I for one would welcome it. Unlike the GPL, this does not create a new and distinct software commons. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Police in many lands are now complaining

Re: [License-discuss] Software, licenses, and patents

2015-03-12 Thread cowan
they do may violate some patent somewhere. No need to stir up deep, muddy waters. I am not a lawyer; this is not legal advice. This is not the unauthorized practice of law, either. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org 'Tis the Linux rebellion / Let coders take

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

2015-03-11 Thread cowan
. If the license were printed on the cover, the supposed buyer would be in a pickle trying to prove that paying the price didn't constitute acceptance of the license. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org The Penguin shall hunt and devour all that is crufty, gnarly

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

2015-03-11 Thread John Cowan
Pamela Chestek scripsit: Do you have an example where paying for a tangible article has been construed by a court as contractual acceptance of a restrictive term printed on it? Isn't boxed software a tangible article? If the box doesn't count, the CD/DVD surely does. -- John Cowan

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

2015-03-11 Thread John Cowan
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanta_Computer,_Inc._v._LG_Electronics,_Inc. I hope not, but the Supremes seem to have left the question vague. In particular, none of these cases have to do with contract restrictions. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org I marvel

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

2015-03-10 Thread John Cowan
). That happens in the U.S. too. A retailer can get full credit for a book by returning just the cover, but they are then not entitled to resell the rest of the book. Exhaustion hasn't kicked in at that point because the retailer is not an ultimate purchaser. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org

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

2015-03-10 Thread cowan
exactly once, a boxed set of Red Hat Linux back in 1999. All the rest has been licensed under either a proprietary or an open-source license.) -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org You're a brave man! Go and break through the lines, and remember while you're out

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

2015-03-10 Thread John Cowan
. If I sell you the computer, the Windows license does *not* go with it, nor do I retain it -- it evaporates. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org How they ever reached any conclusion at all is starkly unknowable to the human mind.--Backstage Lensman

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

2015-03-10 Thread John Cowan
specific, as it relates to the first sale doctrine. The first-sale doctrine also applies in the EU under the name of exhaustion, as well as in Canada and Australia. In the EU, the product must have been first sold within the EU in order for exhaustion to kick in. -- John Cowan http

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

2015-03-08 Thread John Cowan
law, and now we're stuck with it. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org But that, he realized, was a foolish thought; as no one knew better than he that the Wall had no other side. --Arthur C. Clarke, The Wall of Darkness

Re: [License-discuss] License-discuss Digest, Vol 40, Issue 7

2015-02-16 Thread John Cowan
corporations who include BSD-licensed code into their proprietary software, and then offer warranties on that software. If it's good enough for them, it should probably be good enough for you. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org A mosquito cried out in his pain

Re: [License-discuss] License-discuss Digest, Vol 40, Issue 7

2015-02-15 Thread John Cowan
of the license terms? But it isn't a condition. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well

Re: [License-discuss] Fwd: Query whether BSD Licence liability disclaimer is viral.

2015-02-14 Thread John Cowan
of warranty. Alice may disclaim all warranties on something she gives Bob, but Charlie's warranties aren't affected by this disclaimer. IANAL; TINLA; this is not UPOL. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Mark Twain on Cecil Rhodes: I admire him, I freely admit

Re: [License-discuss] PHP License v3.01 comments

2015-02-06 Thread cowan
. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. --Calvin, giving Newton's First Law in his own words ___ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss

Re: [License-discuss] FAQ entry on CLAs

2015-01-20 Thread cowan
. I cannot imagine any open source license (other than un-templated ones with hard-coded licensors) that *cannot* work as an inbound license. Does anyone have counterexamples? I totally support campaigning for inbound=outbound and DCO, What does DCO mean in this context? -- John Cowan

Re: [License-discuss] FAQ entry on CLAs

2015-01-20 Thread John Cowan
unable or unwilling to licence it under the new licence. Or so people believe, anyway, and tend to act as if true. At least some people think that a co-author can relicense ad libitum at least under U.S. copyright law. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org

Re: [License-discuss] FAQ entry on CLAs

2015-01-20 Thread cowan
your point. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org You know, you haven't stopped talking since I came here. You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. --Rufus T. Firefly ___ License-discuss

Re: [License-discuss] FAQ entry on CLAs

2015-01-17 Thread John Cowan
of the OSD is that the object of discussion is a public software license. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org You're a brave man! Go and break through the lines, and remember while you're out there risking life and limb through shot and shell, we'll be in here

Re: [License-discuss] FAQ entry on CLAs

2015-01-17 Thread John Cowan
grant you the rights to do X provided A and B are the case and C is not the case. That doesn't sound in contract as far as I can see: it's got the flavor of a bare license to trespass on land. [.sig below chosen at random!] -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org

Re: [License-discuss] Wikipedia Content

2014-12-01 Thread John Cowan
an Adaptation of the CC-BY work. No, it doesn't require anything more onerous than the Apache License for the mere incorporation of that work into a Collection. Are you talking about CC-BY or CC-(BY-)-SA? -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org You cannot enter here

Re: [License-discuss] Can OSI take stance that U.S. public domain is open source?

2014-05-04 Thread John Cowan
is to be disproved, it must be shown that it violates some clause of the OSD. This is distinct from the prudence or otherwise of certifying the license. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org It was dreary and wearisome. Cold clammy winter still held sway

Re: [License-discuss] Can OSI take stance that U.S. public domain is open source?

2014-05-04 Thread John Cowan
is not. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org But that, he realized, was a foolish thought; as no one knew better than he that the Wall had no other side. --Arthur C. Clarke, The Wall of Darkness ___ License-discuss

Re: [License-discuss] Can OSI take stance that U.S. public domain is open source?

2014-05-04 Thread John Cowan
treat patents. I stand corrected. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Any legal document draws most of its meaning from context. A telegram that says 'SELL HUNDRED THOUSAND SHARES IBM SHORT' (only 190 bits in 5-bit Baudot code plus appropriate headers

Re: [License-discuss] How licenses treat patents

2014-05-04 Thread John Cowan
claim to indemnify a recipient against all possible patents. At most we can ask that the licensor himself license those which he has. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org A rabbi whose congregation doesn't want to drive him out of town isn't a rabbi, and a rabbi who

Re: [License-discuss] Can OSI take stance that U.S. public domain is open source?

2014-05-03 Thread John Cowan
. It's already fully templated (except for the name, which is inessential), and U.S. government employees should be urged to use it. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Most people are much more ignorant about language than they are about [other subjects

Re: [License-discuss] Can OSI take stance that U.S. public domain is open source?

2014-05-03 Thread John Cowan
Henrik Ingo scripsit: Does the US government grant itself patents, and if so, what does it do with those patents? In the case of 6630507, they apply criminal sanctions to people who seek to make use of the patented technology. Google for [patent 6630507]. -- John Cowan http

Re: [License-discuss] Can OSI take stance that U.S. public domain is open source?

2014-05-03 Thread John Cowan
-source licenses. I continue to think that our CC0 decision was wrong insofar as it can be read as saying that the CC0 license is not an open-source (as opposed to OSI Certified) license. There may be reasons not to certify it, but not to deny that it is open source. -- John Cowan http

Re: [License-discuss] FAQ entry (and potential website page?) on why standard licenses?

2014-04-28 Thread John Cowan
of anything resembling a standards-setting organization for it.) By the same token, the GPL is a standard open-source license and the Motosoto Open Source License is not, though both are equally OSI certified. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org In politics

Re: [License-discuss] FAQ entry (and potential website page?) on why standard licenses?

2014-04-28 Thread John Cowan
Richard Fontana scripsit: You'd exclude the most commonly-used FLOSS license from common? Well, the most common license is probably GPLV2+, not GPLV2-only. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org All Norstrilians knew that humor was pleasurable corrigible

Re: [License-discuss] Including License specifics

2014-04-15 Thread John Cowan
warrants the software under terms specified elsewhere. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Normally I can handle panic attacks on my own; but panic is, at the moment, a way of life. --Joseph Zitt ___ License

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

2014-04-02 Thread John Cowan
disclaims patent licensing, is clearly copyright-only, and therefore non-duplicative. I thought that was precisely why we rejected it. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org [P]olice in many lands are now complaining that local arrestees are insisting on having

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

2014-03-31 Thread John Cowan
Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org If you understand, things are just as they are. if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ___ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http

Re: [License-discuss] Zimbra licenses ?

2014-03-21 Thread John Cowan
are very similar to the Mozilla Public License. The other two are not Open Source licenses, but specifically defer to the ZPL and other Open Source licenses in respect of any software released under those licenses. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Consider

Re: [License-discuss] dual licensing and the Open Source Definition

2013-12-13 Thread John Cowan
are available under the proprietary license. -- My confusion is rapidly waxing John Cowan For XML Schema's too taxing:co...@ccil.org I'd use DTDshttp://www.ccil.org/~cowan If they had local trees -- I think I best switch to RELAX NG

Re: [License-discuss] History of approved and not approved licenses

2013-11-24 Thread John Cowan
don't think official positions have much utility. -- Long-short-short, long-short-short / Dactyls in dimeter, John Cowan Verse form with choriambs / (Masculine rhyme): co...@ccil.org One sentence (two stanzas) / Hexasyllabically Challenges poets who / Don't have the time

Re: [License-discuss] Proposal to revise (and move?) the CC0 FAQ

2013-11-14 Thread John Cowan
License, the various Microsoft shared-source licenses, the University of Utah Public License, etc. -- Why yes, I'm ten percent Jewish on my manager's side. John Cowan --Connie Francis http://www.ccil.org/~cowan ___ License

Re: [License-discuss] Newbie post: Localisable open source software license

2013-10-21 Thread John Cowan
/legalcode England Wales specific CC-BY license (in English): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/legalcode Scotland-specific CC-BY license (in English): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/scotland/legalcode -- A few times, I did some exuberant stomping about, John Cowan

Re: [License-discuss] Rejected license list [was Re: TrueCrypt license (not OSI-approved; seeking history, context).]

2013-10-15 Thread John Cowan
Freedoms (and also for GPL compatibility). They do this without waiting for submissions. Consequently, it makes sense for them to list both conforming and non-conforming licenses. -- John Cowan co...@ccil.org http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Thor Heyerdahl recounts his attempt to prove Rudyard

Re: [License-discuss] System 76's BeanBooks Public License v1.0

2013-09-29 Thread John Cowan
of the software, which makes it a proprietary software license in disguise. -- Time alone is real John Cowan co...@ccil.org the rest imaginary like a quaternion --phma http://www.ccil.org/~cowan ___ License-discuss mailing list

Re: [License-discuss] some FLOSS license + commercial: Your thoughts?

2013-09-24 Thread John Cowan
such a contract for you. So what are my best options? - Currently looking at BSD/MIT and Apache; though have seen LGPL+commercial in many places… Any of those will work. -- Why are well-meaning Westerners so concerned that John Cowan the opening of a Colonel Sanders in Beijing means co

Re: [License-discuss] we need a new license for earning money

2013-09-20 Thread John Cowan
Pirmin Braun scripsit: So I'd like to share our thoughts: Maybe it is possible to add such an extension to the OSI Open Source Definition? Or create a new class of approved liceneses? Not gonna happen. We believe very strongly in non-discrimination among licensees, and to disadvantage the

Re: [License-discuss] Started discussion with Figaro re their license.

2013-09-20 Thread John Cowan
: see RFC 3986 Section 4.5. In any case, a license of adhesion (take it or leave it) is interpreted against its author, so if they meant shown somewhere in the UI they would have to say so. -- John Cowan co...@ccil.org http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Most languages are dramatically underdescribed

Re: [License-discuss] Started discussion with Figaro re their license.

2013-09-19 Thread John Cowan
specific prior written permission. 4. Redistributions in any form must include a pointer to Charles River Analytics' website (www.cra.com) and probabilistic modeling services. -- John Cowan co...@ccil.orghttp://ccil.org/~cowan No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece

Re: [License-discuss] System 76's BeanBooks Public License v1.0

2013-09-17 Thread John Cowan
are effectively prevented from making commercial use of the software without paying for the trademark license, which obviously contravenes clauses 6 and 7 of the OSD. So this license is on its face not Open Source. -- One Word to write them all, John Cowan co...@ccil.org One Access

Re: [License-discuss] License incompatibility (was Re: Open source license chooser choosealicense.com

2013-09-14 Thread John Cowan
. -- One Word to write them all, John Cowan co...@ccil.org One Access to find them, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan One Excel to count them all, And thus to Windows bind them.--Mike Champion ___ License-discuss

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