Re: discuss: OCLC Office of Research Open Source License

2002-10-02 Thread Nathan Kelley
To OSI License Discussion subscribers, From: Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED], [ Please discuss this license. -russ ] Dears Sirs, We are submitting the OCLC Office of Research Public License 2.0 as a candidate for OSI Certification. Feel free to post the license to the license-discuss

RE: discuss: OCLC Office of Research Open Source License

2002-10-01 Thread Terrall,Tom
and Aggregate work distinction. Tom -Original Message- From: Forrest J. Cavalier III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: discuss: OCLC Office of Research Open Source License This is how combined work

Re: discuss: OCLC Office of Research Open Source License

2002-10-01 Thread Brendan Hide
Hello Tom (and other licence-discuss subscribers) First, IANAL, and second, I haven't actually studied the OSI Certification requirements thoroughly. What I have noticed is that the Original Contributor is defined as the OCLC Office of Research within Section 1 of the license. This means that

RE: discuss: OCLC Office of Research Open Source License

2002-10-01 Thread Terrall,Tom
Thanks for your 2 memos Rod. I agree that Section 1 and Section 4 partially overlap and lead to confusion as to wht is granted. We will see about an improvement. The Section 4 sentence, This Section 4 shall survive termination of this License for any reason, was the input of our legal

RE: discuss: OCLC Office of Research Open Source License

2002-10-01 Thread Chris Gray
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Terrall,Tom wrote: Thanks for your comments, Forrest! One of our java programmers informs me that java bytecode is highly modifiable by using a java decompiler to regenerate the source code. There are obfuscators to make this harder, and de-obfuscators to counter

discuss: OCLC Office of Research Open Source License

2002-09-30 Thread Russell Nelson
[ Please discuss this license. -russ ] Open Source Initiative. September 23, 2002 Dears Sirs, We are submitting the OCLC Office of Research Public License 2.0 as a candidate for OSI Certification. Feel free to post the license to the license-discuss list.

Re: discuss: OCLC Office of Research Open Source License

2002-09-30 Thread Rod Dixon
through the following url: http://papers.ssrn.com/author=240132 - Original Message - From: Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Terrall,Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 10:39 AM Subject: discuss: OCLC Office of Research Open Source License [ Please

Re: discuss: OCLC Office of Research Open Source License

2002-09-30 Thread Forrest J. Cavalier III
This is how combined work is defined... A Combined Work results from combining and integrating all or parts of the Program with other code. A Combined Work may be thought of as having multiple parents or being result of multiple lines of code development. Is this definition precise enough