Re: [License-discuss] Open Source Eventually License Development

2015-05-29 Thread Zooko Wilcox-OHearn
Dear folks: At long last I went ahead and took Bradley Kuhn's suggestion to reimplement TGPPL as an added permission on GPL. Richard Fontana has been kind enough to submit a pull request. Please review! https://github.com/zooko/tgppl Regards, Zooko

Re: [License-discuss] Open Source Eventually License Development

2013-08-23 Thread zooko
Kuhn) which would allow anyone to make a derived work be GPL-licensed. That way anyone using TGPPLv2 would automatically have the option of switching to GPL, and would not have the option (while still using TGPPLv2) of preventing downstream users from switching to GPL. Regards, Zooko

Re: [License-discuss] Open Source Eventually License Development

2013-08-23 Thread zooko
for a duration of 12 months. So the effect of the Person A's use of TGPPL on Person B is completely different from the old Aladdin Software policy. Regards, Zooko ___ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin

Re: [License-discuss] Open Source Eventually License Development

2013-08-23 Thread zooko
/cryptography/2013-August/005095.html Regards, Zooko [1] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/COPYING.TGPPL.rst [2] https://tahoe-lafs.org/~zooko/tgppl.pdf [3] http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss/2013-August/001087.html [4] http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail

Re: [License-discuss] Open Source Eventually License Development

2013-08-22 Thread zooko
the grace period. ISTR that Zooko was willing to drop that requirement for the sake of simplicity. But maybe I'm misremembering. Zooko? Short version: I'm willing to allow a line of works licensed under TGPPL to eventually give rise to derived works licensed under GPL. However

Re: [License-discuss] Open Source Eventually License Development

2013-08-19 Thread zooko
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 08:44:02PM -0400, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: Zooko, It might be worth mentioning here that you and I have had discussions for years about the idea of drafting TGPPL as a set of exceptions to Affero GPLv3 and/or GPLv3. I believe this is indeed possible, but requires

Re: [License-discuss] Open Source Eventually License Development

2013-08-17 Thread zooko
works. Regards, Zooko --- begin appended text of Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, v1.0 === Transitive Grace Period Public Licence (TGPPL) v. 1.0 === This Transitive Grace Period

Re: [License-discuss] Open Source Eventually License Development

2013-08-17 Thread zooko
Hi there, Fred Trotter: Thanks for working on this topic and for citing my Transitive Grace Period Public Licence [1, 2]. 1. https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/COPYING.TGPPL.rst 2. https://tahoe-lafs.org/~zooko/tgppl.pdf I have one objection to raise right at the beginning

Re: [License-discuss] Idea for time-dependent license, need comments

2013-07-21 Thread zooko
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 02:50:58PM -0500, Karl Fogel wrote: Hi, Zooko! Hello Karl! Thanks for the thoughtful comments. If you have a pointer, that'd be great. I don't see it on the list of approved licenses. I'll dig some up. Added to my todo list. The difference

Re: [License-discuss] Idea for time-dependent license, need comments

2013-07-19 Thread zooko
I suspect the Business Source Licence is inspired by my Transitive Grace Period Public Licence: https://tahoe-lafs.org/~zooko/tgppl.pdf https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/COPYING.TGPPL.rst But, the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence is an Open Source licence. There's

Re: License Committee report

2004-02-17 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
is if the let's not proliferate substantially similar licenses reasoning should not also apply to the approval of the Fair License. I will not presume to insist that OSI approve the Simple Permissive License. Regards, Bryce Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn -- license-discuss archive is at http

For Approval: Simple Permissive License

2004-02-08 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. --- http://zooko.com/simple_permissive_license.html Thank you for your time. Regards, Bryce Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn -- license-discuss archive is at http

Re: Squeak License OSD-compliance

2002-02-27 Thread Zooko
my voice to lichengtai's that I hope Squeak will be GPL-compatible. Regards, Zooko [1] http://zooko.com/license_quick_ref.html [2] http://erights.org/ --- zooko.com Security and Distributed Systems Engineering --- you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hope you can make

Re: Squeak License OSD-compliance

2002-02-27 Thread Zooko
Squeak with a license which is itself GPL compatible, but you might also include media data with Squeak which is not licensed freely, and then the whole Squeak package might be GPL-incompatible. Is that what you mean? Regards, Zooko [1] http://www.fsf.org/licenses/license-list.html

Re: Squeak License OSD-compliance

2002-02-27 Thread Zooko
work for Squeak. Regards, Zooko --- zooko.com Security and Distributed Systems Engineering --- -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3

license_quick_ref.html, v0.9.8.7

2002-01-05 Thread Zooko
move it over onto the larger table and reduce the quick_ref table to three licenses. Thanks to regulars of this list for your help on earlier revisions of this document! Regards, Zooko --- zooko.com Security and Distributed Systems Engineering --- -- license-discuss archive

Quick Reference For Choosing a Free Software License

2001-08-08 Thread zooko
satisfied the need, so now I'm going to make it public. I've tried to be clear about the places where my ignorance and bias show through. I very much appreciate corrections and suggestions. Regards, Zooko