Re: X.Net, Inc. License

2001-08-09 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Russell Nelson wrote: > Karsten M. Self writes: > > on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 01:19:20PM -0400, John Cowan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >wrote: > > > Matthew C. Weigel scripsit: > > > > > > > My opinion is that "MIT License with specified jurisdiction" should be > > > > approved, as

Re: X.Net, Inc. License

2001-08-09 Thread Russell Nelson
Karsten M. Self writes: > on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 01:19:20PM -0400, John Cowan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Matthew C. Weigel scripsit: > > > > > My opinion is that "MIT License with specified jurisdiction" should be > > > approved, as this seems like a valid concern. > > > > It should

Re: X.Net, Inc. License

2001-08-09 Thread Russell Nelson
Matthew C. Weigel writes: > What would be an example? The popular "oops we didn't mean to include > old revisions that make disparaging remarks" kind of markup? I'd think > that it's what prints out that counts. Right, that's my point. CR and LF are a form of markup which, when properly ren

Re: X.Net, Inc. License

2001-08-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 01:19:20PM -0400, John Cowan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Matthew C. Weigel scripsit: > > > My opinion is that "MIT License with specified jurisdiction" should be > > approved, as this seems like a valid concern. > > It should be noted for the record that such licenses ar

Re: X.Net, Inc. License

2001-08-06 Thread M. Drew Streib
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 03:08:37PM -0400, Forrest J Cavalier III wrote: > > It should be noted for the record that such licenses are not GPL-compatible. > > > > When the jurisdictions are different, they are not compatible > with each other either. That seems like a problem. I believe that bot

Re: X.Net, Inc. License

2001-08-06 Thread Forrest J Cavalier III
John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Matthew C. Weigel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > My opinion is that "MIT License with specified jurisdiction" should be > > approved, as this seems like a valid concern. > > It should be noted for the record that such licenses are not GPL-compatible. > When the juris

Re: X.Net, Inc. License

2001-08-06 Thread John Cowan
Matthew C. Weigel scripsit: > My opinion is that "MIT License with specified jurisdiction" should be > approved, as this seems like a valid concern. It should be noted for the record that such licenses are not GPL-compatible. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: X.Net, Inc. License

2001-08-06 Thread M. Drew Streib
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 05:27:03PM -0400, Matthew C. Weigel wrote: > My opinion is that "MIT License with specified jurisdiction" should be > approved, as this seems like a valid concern. Specified jurisdictions are extremely common, and imo do not conflict with the intent of this contract. They

Re: X.Net, Inc. License

2001-08-06 Thread Matthew C. Weigel
On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Russell Nelson wrote: > Karsten M. Self writes: > > I'm assuming that markup isn't a legal part of the license -- and > > would strongly encourage submissions be made as plaintext, not > > HTML-tagged content. > > If you got a Word .doc file, would you also assume that the

Re: X.Net, Inc. License

2001-08-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 08:58:30AM -0400, Russell Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self writes: > > I'm assuming that markup isn't a legal part of the license -- and would > > strongly encourage submissions be made as plaintext, not HTML-tagged > > content. > > If you got a Word

Re: X.Net, Inc. License

2001-08-05 Thread Russell Nelson
Karsten M. Self writes: > I'm assuming that markup isn't a legal part of the license -- and would > strongly encourage submissions be made as plaintext, not HTML-tagged > content. If you got a Word .doc file, would you also assume that the markup isn't a legal part of the license? > With the

Re: X.Net, Inc. License

2001-08-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 11:24:15PM -0700, Brian DeSpain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Russell Nelson wrote: > > > Open source or not? > > -russ > > > > Carl W. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The X.Net, Inc. License > > > &g

Re: X.Net, Inc. License

2001-08-04 Thread Brian DeSpain
This is nearly identical to the Apache license. So My guess is free. Russell Nelson wrote: > Open source or not? > -russ > > Carl W. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The X.Net, Inc. License > > > > > > > > Copyright (c)

X.Net, Inc. License

2001-08-04 Thread Russell Nelson
Open source or not? -russ Carl W. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The X.Net, Inc. License > > > > Copyright (c) 2000-2001 X.Net, Inc. Lafayette, California, USA > > Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy > o