Re: Modifying existing licenses in minor ways

2000-12-16 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Danese Cooper wrote: Second, I might agree with you about the role of OSI in certifying licenses which are essentially OEM'd from "approved" licenses...but OSI would disagree with you me. Sun was required to submit our version of the Mozilla Public License (our Sun

Re: Modifying existing licenses in minor ways

2000-12-14 Thread Danese Cooper
Adam, Sorry to take so long to answer you, but I've been travelling in Europe for the last 2 weeks with uncertain connectivitiy and I typically punt on my mail list emails until I get home...but Sun is very interested in having people use the SISSL (because we think its a really good license).

Re: Modifying existing licenses in minor ways

2000-12-14 Thread Adam C. Engst
At 1:52 AM -0800 12/14/00, Danese Cooper wrote: Adam, Sorry to take so long to answer you, but I've been travelling in Europe for the last 2 weeks with uncertain connectivitiy and I typically punt on my mail list emails until I get home...but Sun is very interested in having people use the SISSL

Re: Modifying existing licenses in minor ways

2000-12-06 Thread Adam C. Engst
Hey folks, Down to the nitty gritty. It's looking like we're going to want to use the Sun Industry Standards Source License 1.1 (SISSL) for XNS. It's pretty generic throughout except for the following: http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/sissl_license.html Sun Industry Standards Source

Re: Modifying existing licenses in minor ways

2000-12-06 Thread John Cowan
"Adam C. Engst" wrote: 6.2 Effect of New Versions. Once Original Code has been published under a particular version of the License, You may always continue to use it under the terms of that version. You may also choose to use such Original Code under the terms of any subsequent version of

Re: Modifying existing licenses in minor ways

2000-11-29 Thread Adam C. Engst
At 6:13 PM -0800 11/28/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been part of my argument with Larry Rosen WRT the Jabber License. While I agree with him in being able to move beyond the current state of art in licensing, rather than being stuck with static terms dictated by another party, I still have

Re: Modifying existing licenses in minor ways

2000-11-29 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 07:24:27AM -0800, Adam C. Engst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At 6:13 PM -0800 11/28/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been part of my argument with Larry Rosen WRT the Jabber License. While I agree with him in being able to move beyond the current state of art in

Re: Modifying existing licenses in minor ways

2000-11-29 Thread David Johnson
On Wednesday 29 November 2000 07:24 am, Adam C. Engst wrote: Fortunately, the practice appears to be fading somewhat, and projects which have adopted distinctive licenses are either fading or adopting one of the emergent standards (GPL, BSD/MIT, or MozPL). From this, it would seem that

Modifying existing licenses in minor ways

2000-11-28 Thread Adam C. Engst
Hey folks, A quick question. If you want to adopt an OSI-certified license to avoid the proliferation of yet more open source licenses, how do you deal with the fact that many of the open source licenses have specific language that doesn't make sense if used by any product other than what

Re: Modifying existing licenses in minor ways

2000-11-28 Thread Mitchell Baker
The MPL is due for a revision before long. I'd like to make the revised version as neutral as possible for just this reason. mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:25:56PM -0800, Adam C. Engst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hey folks, A quick question. If you want to

Re: Modifying existing licenses in minor ways

2000-11-28 Thread Adam C. Engst
At 1:01 PM -0800 11/28/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A quick question. If you want to adopt an OSI-certified license to avoid the proliferation of yet more open source licenses, how do you deal with the fact that many of the open source licenses have specific language that doesn't make

Re: Modifying existing licenses in minor ways

2000-11-28 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 02:36:53PM -0800, Mitchell Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:25:56PM -0800, Adam C. Engst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hey folks, A quick question. If you want to adopt an OSI-certified license to avoid the