Re: OpenDivX license

2001-01-22 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A philosophical point first: I believe that attempting standards > enforcement through copyright licensing is fundamentally broken. We've > seen this tried several times, with the Artistic (control over "Perl" > name), and SCSL licenses, the results

Re: OpenDivX license

2001-01-21 Thread Ben Tilly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:51:40PM -0800, Brian Behlendorf >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [...] >A philosophical point first: I believe that attempting standards >enforcement through copyright licensing is fundamentally broken. We've >seen this tried several times, with

Re: OpenDivX license

2001-01-21 Thread kmself
on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:51:40PM -0800, Brian Behlendorf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Patrik Wallstrom wrote: > > http://www.projectmayo.com/opendivx/divx_open_license_v10.txt > > > > This license has not been approved by OSI, has it? > > > > They call OpenDivX an Open Sou

Re: OpenDivX license

2001-01-20 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Patrik Wallstrom wrote: > http://www.projectmayo.com/opendivx/divx_open_license_v10.txt > > This license has not been approved by OSI, has it? > > They call OpenDivX an Open Source-project, but limits the code to be > compatible with the MPEG-4 standard: > > 6. Any Codec or

OpenDivX license

2001-01-18 Thread Patrik Wallstrom
http://www.projectmayo.com/opendivx/divx_open_license_v10.txt This license has not been approved by OSI, has it? They call OpenDivX an Open Source-project, but limits the code to be compatible with the MPEG-4 standard: 6. Any Codec or Larger Works created by you must conform to the MPEG-4 Vide