Re: Passage about licensing from OpenBSD documentation

2022-02-08 Thread deich...@placebonol.com
Paul Yep, that is definitely the authorative source. I've been using archive.org for a couple decades that I forget openbsd.org website uses CVS. 73 On February 8, 2022 9:11:56 AM MST, Paul de Weerd wrote: >On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 08:54:08AM -0700, deich...@placebonol.com wrote: >| Try archiv

Re: Passage about licensing from OpenBSD documentation

2022-02-08 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 08:54:08AM -0700, deich...@placebonol.com wrote: | Try archive.org for older versions of openbsd.org. Or just the CVS repository. The openbsd.org website is under revision control, there's 26 years of history available over at http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/www/ You

Re: Passage about licensing from OpenBSD documentation

2022-02-08 Thread deich...@placebonol.com
Try archive.org for older versions of openbsd.org. On February 8, 2022 8:39:46 AM MST, Ibsen S Ripsbusker wrote: >On Tue, Feb 8, 2022, at 15:25, Nick Holland wrote: >> Probably be one of these two pages, I think: >> >> https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html >> https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html >>

Re: Passage about licensing from OpenBSD documentation

2022-02-08 Thread Ibsen S Ripsbusker
On Tue, Feb 8, 2022, at 15:25, Nick Holland wrote: > Probably be one of these two pages, I think: > > https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html > https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html > > I call it the "Microsoft Question": which do you fear more? > 1) That MS uses your code and profits from your work >

Re: Passage about licensing from OpenBSD documentation

2022-02-08 Thread Nick Holland
On 2/6/22 11:57 PM, Ibsen S Ripsbusker wrote: My great and good friends, Like 20 years ago while trying to install OpenBSD for the first time I read a short passage in OpenBSD documentation that I really liked. Does anyone know where I can find it? The passage that said very directly that we li

Passage about licensing from OpenBSD documentation

2022-02-06 Thread Ibsen S Ripsbusker
My great and good friends, Like 20 years ago while trying to install OpenBSD for the first time I read a short passage in OpenBSD documentation that I really liked. Does anyone know where I can find it? The passage that said very directly that we license OpenBSD permissively because we know our s

Re: Licensing question

2013-06-22 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013-06-22, William Orr wrote: > I currently have an untested (I'm going to spin up some EC2 instances to > do testing this weekend) start on a port to linux on GitHub: > https://github.com/worr/spamd > > So my questions: > Is there anything else I need to do to make sure that I'm kosher with

Licensing question

2013-06-22 Thread William Orr
Hello, I'm a mail administrator for a student group at my alma mater, RIT. We're not particularly satisfied with our current greylisting software (gld), and the best alternative (hell, the best greylisting software, hands down) is spamd. Unfortunately, none of the other sysadmins want to mai

Re: Licensing OpenBSD artwork as CC-BY-SA?

2013-02-21 Thread Martin Schröder
2013/2/22 Theo de Raadt : > It is not allowed. I thought the same. So https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Openbsd2.svg is really a violation? Best Martin

Re: Licensing OpenBSD artwork as CC-BY-SA?

2013-02-21 Thread Theo de Raadt
ad for > http://meta.unix.stackexchange.com/q/1105/9454 for OpenBSD with an > image from http://www.openbsd.org/art2.html > > One of the conditions is that the images must be uploaded to their > network (via imgur), which requires a licensing as CC-BY-SA. > > This doesn't seem to be compatibl

Licensing OpenBSD artwork as CC-BY-SA?

2013-02-21 Thread Martin Schröder
Hi, I'm thinking about creating a community ad for http://meta.unix.stackexchange.com/q/1105/9454 for OpenBSD with an image from http://www.openbsd.org/art2.html One of the conditions is that the images must be uploaded to their network (via imgur), which requires a licensing as CC-BY-SA.

Re: Licensing

2013-01-08 Thread Peter Hessler
On 2013 Jan 07 (Mon) at 23:50:04 -0800 (-0800), noah pugsley wrote: So what? This is radically off-topic, please don't bring this kind of crap to misc@. -- You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a "realist," he is preparing to do something he is secretly ashamed of doing.

Re: bcrypt.c licensing

2011-06-21 Thread Theo de Raadt
> I have a question about the license for bcrypt.c. The OpenBSD policy > page (http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html) says: > > Berkeley rescinded the 3rd term (the advertising term) on 22 July > 1999. Verbatim copies of the Berkeley license in the OpenBSD tree have > that term removed. That

Re: bcrypt.c licensing

2011-06-21 Thread Aaron Patterson
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 06:28:21PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 09:23:13AM -0700, Aaron Patterson wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > I have a question about the license for bcrypt.c. The OpenBSD policy > > page (http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html) says: > > > > Berkeley rescinded

Re: bcrypt.c licensing

2011-06-21 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 09:23:13AM -0700, Aaron Patterson wrote: > Hi! > > I have a question about the license for bcrypt.c. The OpenBSD policy > page (http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html) says: > > Berkeley rescinded the 3rd term (the advertising term) on 22 July > 1999. Verbatim copies of

bcrypt.c licensing

2011-06-21 Thread Aaron Patterson
Hi! I have a question about the license for bcrypt.c. The OpenBSD policy page (http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html) says: Berkeley rescinded the 3rd term (the advertising term) on 22 July 1999. Verbatim copies of the Berkeley license in the OpenBSD tree have that term removed. In addition,

Re: licensing

2010-04-16 Thread Ted Roby
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:25 PM, J.C. Roberts wrote: > > > If I have clean licensing on everything, can > > I then ask for addition to the tree? > > > > Of course you can ask, and if the port is both well done and well > tested, then someone else might have enough

Re: licensing

2010-04-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
; > ports@, and do *NOT* expect (or ask for) it to be added to the > > OpenBSD ports tree. > > > > > What about a completely unrelated project? > I do not understand your question. > If I have clean licensing on everything, can > I then ask for addition to the tre

Re: licensing

2010-04-16 Thread Thomas Pfaff
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:52:55 -0600 Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > > There's non-free software in the ports tree. > > Not in a real sense. The ports tree is a build infrastructure > containing Makefiles, lists of files and where they should go, and (in > a perfect world, continously shrinking) minim

Re: licensing

2010-04-16 Thread Ted Roby
own, posting your updates to ports@, and do > *NOT* expect (or ask for) it to be added to the OpenBSD ports tree. > > What about a completely unrelated project? If I have clean licensing on everything, can I then ask for addition to the tree? Or should I just neatly post to ports@ and se

Re: licensing

2010-04-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:57:40 -0600 Ted Roby wrote: > Now, did umplawny have the original right to put his restricted > code into a project that was much more loosely licensed? > > If he did not, can I use his improperly licensed code (ie. does he > forfeit his license by superseding restrictions

Re: licensing

2010-04-15 Thread Ted Roby
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Henning Brauer wrote: > > find all(!) copyright holders and have them agree to a new license. or > don't use that code. > > There are at least three projects involved here. 1. The Diku project 2. The Merc project 3. The "Forsaken Lands" project The Diku and Merc

Re: licensing

2010-04-15 Thread Johan Beisser
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Thomas Pfaff wrote: > There's non-free software in the ports tree. Good thing it's in ports, then. Keeps that shady license where we can see it, and choose to suffer with it or not.

Re: licensing

2010-04-15 Thread Theo de Raadt
> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:41:35 -0600 > Ted Roby wrote: > > > > I didn't think OpenBSD was even interested in such licensing > > schemes in the Ports tree. > > > > There's non-free software in the ports tree. Not in a real sense. The ports tree

Re: licensing

2010-04-15 Thread Thomas Pfaff
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:41:35 -0600 Ted Roby wrote: > > I didn't think OpenBSD was even interested in such licensing > schemes in the Ports tree. > There's non-free software in the ports tree.

Re: licensing

2010-04-15 Thread Ted Roby
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Ted Roby wrote: > > So how does that work with OpenBSD? How to I introduce > > code with shady licensing, and take all the brunt of it? > > I don't suppose you've stopped to a

Re: licensing

2010-04-15 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Ted Roby wrote: > So how does that work with OpenBSD? How to I introduce > code with shady licensing, and take all the brunt of it? I don't suppose you've stopped to ask if the OpenBSD project is at all interested in whatever code you feel like contributing?

Re: licensing

2010-04-15 Thread Henning Brauer
at's what I'm interested in! I don't mind being that > lightning rod at all. Thank you for valid information which > may resurrect my hopes. > > So how does that work with OpenBSD? How to I introduce > code with shady licensing, and take all the brunt of it? find a

Re: licensing

2010-04-15 Thread Ted Roby
... Now that's what I'm interested in! I don't mind being that lightning rod at all. Thank you for valid information which may resurrect my hopes. So how does that work with OpenBSD? How to I introduce code with shady licensing, and take all the brunt of it?

Re: licensing

2010-04-15 Thread Ted Roby
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Chris Dukes wrote: > > > As for the personal attacks, you can print off this email, > fold it until it's all corners, and shove it up your ass. > > Now that was far longer than your first one-liner smackdown. Good job.

Re: licensing

2010-04-15 Thread Chris Dukes
on of "I really liked this original implementation, and I'm looking for others interested in re-implementing under less restrictive licensing." So let's drill through things. 1) Did you actually attempt to track down who might be using a umplawny email address at university of man

Re: licensing

2010-04-15 Thread Ted Roby
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Sean Kamath wrote: > On Apr 14, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Ted Roby wrote: > > I got more help from the first poster who suggested using > > Circle Mud instead. The problem is, I was quite attached to > > to this modified Rom code, and perhaps committed the > > error of g

Re: licensing

2010-04-14 Thread Sean Kamath
On Apr 14, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Ted Roby wrote: > I got more help from the first poster who suggested using > Circle Mud instead. The problem is, I was quite attached to > to this modified Rom code, and perhaps committed the > error of getting my hopes up. You just weren't to to clear in your first p

Re: licensing

2010-04-14 Thread Ted Roby
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Bryan wrote: > > I thought "nothing" was "zero", and NUL was the absence of nothing... > Wouldn't NULL be the absence of everything, including numerical 0? Dropping the semantics I'd have to say this thread is NULL, and yet it is full of... well, whatever tha

Re: licensing

2010-04-14 Thread Ted Roby
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Paul M wrote: > > Please clarify what you want from this list. > > Peace, Love and Understanding. Yeah right.. I got more help from the first poster who suggested using Circle Mud instead. The problem is, I was quite attached to to this modified Rom code, and pe

Re: licensing

2010-04-14 Thread Paul M
On 15/04/2010, at 8:16 AM, Ted Roby wrote: I had googled all of this before my first post. In fact, I have been in contact with the current maintainers of the project. They have explicit permission, but that doesn't give me explicit permission. Ok, now I'm confused. You've been ranting for a

Re: licensing

2010-04-14 Thread Ted Roby
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Sean Kamath wrote: > On Apr 14, 2010, at 1:16 PM, Ted Roby wrote: > >> You blew off on this message board assuming I hadn't even >> googled, or found our friend Voytek Plawny. >> > > So? Inquiring minds want to know! *Is* he the guy at EA? And more > important

Re: licensing

2010-04-14 Thread Sean Kamath
On Apr 14, 2010, at 1:16 PM, Ted Roby wrote: You blew off on this message board assuming I hadn't even googled, or found our friend Voytek Plawny. So? Inquiring minds want to know! *Is* he the guy at EA? And more importantly, is he still a dick? Sean

Re: licensing

2010-04-14 Thread Ted Roby
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Chris wrote: > > You're kidding us, right? You can't bother to google something so > basic, you complain when someone points you in the right direction, > make a quick detour for a spelling flame, then act like it'd be way > more work to email a couple of guys ra

Re: licensing

2010-04-14 Thread Ted Roby
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Sean Kamath wrote: > On Apr 14, 2010, at 12:02 PM, Ted Roby wrote: > >> Please tell me what I should do with his permission? >> >> At best, he can let me host my own mud with his code. >> At worst, he must rewrite his entire license in all the associated >> files

Re: licensing

2010-04-14 Thread Chris
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Ted Roby wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Sean Kamath wrote: > >> On Apr 14, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Ted Roby wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Chris Dukes >>> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:21:53AM -0600, Ted Roby wrote:

Re: licensing

2010-04-14 Thread Sean Kamath
On Apr 14, 2010, at 12:02 PM, Ted Roby wrote: Please tell me what I should do with his permission? At best, he can let me host my own mud with his code. At worst, he must rewrite his entire license in all the associated files. Now *that* is an interesting question. As the original author, the

Re: licensing

2010-04-14 Thread Ted Roby
I reluctantly reply to the entire list, even though you copied me personally... I don't care about finding the original "auther". He left behind licensing which forbids its application in Open Source. Please tell me what I should do with his permission? At best, he can let me

Re: licensing

2010-04-14 Thread Sean Kamath
On Apr 14, 2010, at 11:40 AM, Ted Roby wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Sean Kamath wrote: On Apr 14, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Ted Roby wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Chris Dukes wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:21:53AM -0600, Ted Roby wrote: /* umpla...@cc.umanitoba.ca

Re: licensing

2010-04-14 Thread Ted Roby
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Sean Kamath wrote: > On Apr 14, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Ted Roby wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Chris Dukes >> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:21:53AM -0600, Ted Roby wrote: >>> /* umpla...@cc.umanitoba.ca >>> */ >>> >>> http://lmgt

Re: licensing

2010-04-14 Thread Sean Kamath
On Apr 14, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Ted Roby wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Chris Dukes wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:21:53AM -0600, Ted Roby wrote: /* umpla...@cc.umanitoba.ca */ http://lmgtfy.com/?q=plawny+umanitoba I think you'll find a good idea of who to write care of which

Re: licensing

2010-04-14 Thread Ted Roby
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Chris Dukes wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:21:53AM -0600, Ted Roby wrote: > > /* umpla...@cc.umanitoba.ca > */ > > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=plawny+umanitoba > > I think you'll find a good idea of who to write care of which company. > -- > Chris Dukes > Are you

Re: licensing

2010-04-14 Thread Chris Dukes
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:21:53AM -0600, Ted Roby wrote: > /* umpla...@cc.umanitoba.ca */ http://lmgtfy.com/?q=plawny+umanitoba I think you'll find a good idea of who to write care of which company. -- Chris Dukes

Re: licensing

2010-04-14 Thread bofh
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Ted Roby wrote: > Time for me to write OpenMUD? I've had fond memories of CircleMud, and I believe the maintainer is still around. -- http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk "This officer's men seem to follow him merely o

licensing

2010-04-14 Thread Ted Roby
Hi list. I've spent some time porting one of my favorite dungeon games (a Rom 2.6 derivative). I've only begun this project, but have already converted 1700+ lines as such: strcat -> strlcat strcpy -> strlcpy sprintf -> snprintf Much to my disappointment, I may have to rewrite large portions befor

Re: Licensing Help

2008-10-12 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Benjamin Adams wrote on Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 02:21:31PM -0400: > I'm looking for some clarification on Licensing. > I'm looking to build a product using: > OpenBSD > MySQL Note that the MySQL client libraries are licenced under the GPL, not under the LGPL, with an explicit

Re: Licensing Help

2008-10-09 Thread Mike Swanson
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Benjamin Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for some clarification on Licensing. I'm looking to build > a product using: > OpenBSD > Tomcat > MySQL > Java > > I know OpenBSD is do what you want. Anyone know wh

Licensing Help

2008-10-09 Thread Benjamin Adams
I'm looking for some clarification on Licensing. I'm looking to build a product using: OpenBSD Tomcat MySQL Java I know OpenBSD is do what you want. Anyone know what sun says for licensing? I'm looking to sell this product for profit which will help me give back to OpenBSD :) A

Re: About C++ and licensing on OpenBSD

2007-05-01 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:50:04AM -0400, Ernesto Bascon wrote: > Hi everybody: > > I do not want to start a flamewar about licensing and hope some > concrete answers to my questions (maybe I seem aggressive, I am not at > all :) ). > > I want to develop an OpenBSD spec

Re: About C++ and licensing on OpenBSD

2007-05-01 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 15:09 +0930, Adam Hawes wrote: > It's your code. You could license it any way you please, even > charging people for it, Commercial ("charging people for") distribution is a different issue than the license itself. Please don't confuse the two. > as long as it can't be cons

Re: About C++ and licensing on OpenBSD

2007-04-30 Thread Nate Montague
> 2. OpenBSD is known as a very anti-GPL project... so, what would be > the OpenBSD position on front of some LGPL code implemented > specifically for OpenBSD? Well Ernesto, OpenBSD doesn't really care what you do with your own code, regardless of what platform it is developed for. You can put it

Re: About C++ and licensing on OpenBSD

2007-04-30 Thread Adam Hawes
Hi, > I want to develop an OpenBSD specific set of libraries, implementing > it on C++ and using the LGPL or the Classpath::License licenses for my > code (both are almost identical). Well, I will be the initial owner of > my code and I can do (again, initially) anything with it, but: It's your c

Re: About C++ and licensing on OpenBSD

2007-04-30 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Ernesto Bascon wrote: I want to develop an OpenBSD specific set of libraries, implementing it on C++ and using the LGPL or the Classpath::License licenses for my code (both are almost identical). Well, I will be the initial owner of my code and I can do (again, initially) anything with it, but:

About C++ and licensing on OpenBSD

2007-04-30 Thread Ernesto Bascon
Hi everybody: I do not want to start a flamewar about licensing and hope some concrete answers to my questions (maybe I seem aggressive, I am not at all :) ). I want to develop an OpenBSD specific set of libraries, implementing it on C++ and using the LGPL or the Classpath::License licenses for

Microsoft Volume Licensing Acknowledgement (KMM8004423I3516L0KM)

2006-12-11 Thread MVLS Help
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Re: Intel and Licensing

2006-10-02 Thread Ingo Schwarze
marrandy wrote on Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:56:44AM -0400: [...] > The key component is that source should be open. > If you can't provide source then API's have to be open In similar arguments, it might even be better to argue just the other way round: Please provide hardware and firmware document

Intel and Licensing

2006-10-02 Thread marrandy
erial which includes copyrights which are more restrictive than the Berkeley copyright, or must relegate this material to a secondary status, i.e. OpenBSD as a whole is freely redistributable, but some optional components may not be." A number of applications have been culled from Ope

Intel and Open Source Licensing w/r/t the OpenBSD Operating System

2006-10-02 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Dear Mr. Awad: As a recent purchaser of a brand-new Intel 965 motherboard with Core 2 Duo chip I am very pleased with the product, but disappointed with news from my favorite Open Source community, the OpenBSD community (http://www.openbsd.org) that Intel's licensing schemes fall sho

Re: Future licensing trouble for Sendmail

2006-03-27 Thread Theo de Raadt
> "Luckily within a few months you will be able to tell Sendmail how > to disclose their bugs because their next version is going to come > out with a much more commercial licence. Then you can pay for it, > and then you can complain too." > > Is this a hint that there might be a license issues th

Future licensing trouble for Sendmail

2006-03-27 Thread Will H. Backman
No, this isn't another "Sendmail needs to be replaced because there was a security hole" email. I was following the thread on BugTraq regarding the Sendmail vulnerability, and saw this from Theo (Mar 24 2006): "Luckily within a few months you will be able to tell Sendmail how to disclose their bu