Re: YAOSL - Yet Another Open Source License v1.03

1999-11-12 Thread Alex Nicolaou
Angelo Schneider wrote: > > Alex Nicolaou wrote: > > It isn't clear to > > me why my license should take steps to allow my software to be used in > > countries where the laws are oriented at restricting my ability to > > The U.S. does exactly and only that ... > Why should europe (or some countr

Re: YAOSL - Yet Another Open Source License v1.03

1999-11-12 Thread Angelo Schneider
Hi, please see below. >> > 6. You are not required to distribute your patches under the terms of >> > this license. However, by submitting your patches to the copyright >> > holder you grant the copyright holder the right to distribute a new >> > version of the software that includes your patche

Re: YAOSL - Yet Another Open Source License v1.03

1999-11-12 Thread Angelo Schneider
Alex Nicolaou wrote: [...] > > This is similar to the above. What if a nation (France for example) ruled that > > something was unenforcable (the 90 days for another example). This would mean > > that no one in the nation of France is able to use the software at all. > > > > I think a better sol

Re: YAOSL - Yet Another Open Source License v1.03

1999-10-30 Thread Alex Nicolaou
Alex Nicolaou wrote: > Yes, that is my intention. I guess I don't really see the problem? The > GIF example is weak since the patent covers encoding/decoding the GIF, I should only say "encoding" since the patent only restricts compression and not decompression. alex

Re: YAOSL - Yet Another Open Source License v1.03

1999-10-30 Thread Alex Nicolaou
Arandir wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Alex Nicolaou wrote: > > > 1. You may distribute complete and verbatim copies of this software and > > all supporting files, provided that you do so without any charge. > > > > 2. You may charge for distributing complete and verbatim copies of this > > sof

Re: YAOSL - Yet Another Open Source License v1.03

1999-10-29 Thread Arandir
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Alex Nicolaou wrote: > 1. You may distribute complete and verbatim copies of this software and > all supporting files, provided that you do so without any charge. > > 2. You may charge for distributing complete and verbatim copies of this > software with all supporting files

YAOSL - Yet Another Open Source License v1.03

1999-10-29 Thread Alex Nicolaou
In this version I have believe the licence addresses all complaints against it so far. More feedback, please! thanks, alex -- SOS - Simple Open Source License version 1.03 Copyright (C) 1999, Alex Nicolaou. Distribution of verbatim copies of this license is permitted. All other rights reserved.