Thanks for the useful anecdote Mark.
Isaac: NOT having a license is an issue for anyone that has a requirement for
understanding the intellectual property rights of the module they are using.
My suggestion was to not enforce a license, but to print a warning if one does
not exist.
fwiw: I
Interesting discussion! Unfortunately this does not change the fact that I
am INCREDIBLY LAZY. Typing License: MIT is easy.
If you got a problem with that, send me a PR.
--Josh
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Dick Hardt dick.ha...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the useful anecdote Mark.
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Joshua Holbrook
josh.holbr...@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting discussion! Unfortunately this does not change the fact that I
am INCREDIBLY LAZY. Typing License: MIT is easy.
Then why not use a license that doesn't require the license text be
included when
On 29/03/2013 00:28, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Joshua Holbrook
josh.holbr...@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting discussion! Unfortunately this does not change the fact that I
am INCREDIBLY LAZY. Typing License: MIT is easy.
Then why not use a license that doesn't
A license is something that is granted by the author at distribution-time,
it need not be included in the package contents. If an author wholly owns
the copyright on their work, they can offer the program to you under any
license they want, regardless of what the file inside the repository or
Actually, that is not true. There are several MIT licenses, so unless the
actual license text is included, it is ambiguous what the license is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License#Various_versions
Having a LICENSE file in the package makes it clear what the license is, or
alternatively
I had no idea there were so many experienced IP lawyers on this
mailing list! How lucky we are! It's amazing that you all found time
to learn JavaScript, what with going to law school, passing the bar,
and then becoming familiar with the massive libraries of case-law on
this subject!
Sadly, I'm
Even as a non-lawyer, I can assert that having no mention of any license at
all is a real problem. My company won't allow any software to be used
without a license.
By coincidence our lawyers contacted me a few days ago and wanted to know
the licensing for the software we use. I went to google
Mark,
Were any of those mine? If so, you have my permission (now, in
writing) to use it according to the terms of any BSD license in any of
my other projects. Feel free to ping me if any of them are
outstanding, I usually try to respond pretty quick.
You might have a better response if you
On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 10:14:00 AM UTC-7, Isaac Schlueter wrote:
I had no idea there were so many experienced IP lawyers on this
mailing list! How lucky we are! It's amazing that you all found time
to learn JavaScript, what with going to law school, passing the bar,
and then
If a work is creative enough to be covered by copyright (there's no rule
for code, but usually anything not straightforward and more than a few
lines), then yeah, you need some form of license.
But may I ask, why is your company listening to these lawyers.
No, really, while they are
Austin,
Where'd you go to law school?
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Austin William Wright
diamondma...@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
If a work is creative enough to be covered by copyright (there's no rule for
code, but usually anything not straightforward and more than a few lines),
then
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Austin William Wright
diamondma...@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
If a work is creative enough to be covered by copyright (there's no rule for
code, but usually anything not straightforward and more than a few lines),
then yeah, you need some form of license.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Scott Elcomb pse...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Austin William Wright
diamondma...@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
If a work is creative enough to be covered by copyright (there's no rule
for
code, but usually anything not straightforward
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Scott González
scott.gonza...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Scott Elcomb pse...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Austin William Wright
diamondma...@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
If a work is creative enough to be covered by
without to decide who is right and who not:
enforcing having at least one licence in the package.json or/and to have a
corresponding file in the root would make live easier for all of us.
Am 27.03.2013 um 18:14 schrieb Isaac Schlueter i...@izs.me:
I had no idea there were so many
Yes, copyright is automatic. What's your point? A work still has to be
creative enough to be copyrightable, you cannot copyright data like e.g. a
list of telephone numbers, and even then, you can't copyright e.g. fashion
designs.
Note that treaties are only binding to governments, they don't
But may I ask, why is your company listening to these lawyers.
Who should we listen to then?
I'm not aware of any case law where someone got in trouble for utilizing
code published publicly by the author for the purpose of being used (though
I can imagine it, IF you're re-distributing the
So much silly posturing on this thread. If it's an issue with a specific
module post a bug in their issue tracker on github (or even better, a pull
request). Posting a generic please EVERYONE check your hundreds of
modules on here isn't going to fix anything.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:49 PM,
On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 11:49:00 AM UTC-7, Mark Hahn wrote:
But may I ask, why is your company listening to these lawyers.
Who should we listen to then?
I'm not aware of any case law where someone got in trouble for
utilizing code published publicly by the author for the purpose
I hereby agree to grant a MIT/BSD/ISC compatible license for any code I
post publicly to my github account under creationix. If I forget to
document this while creating a project and your employer's lawyers require
more documentation, please send me a friendly pull request and I'll try to
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Austin William Wright
diamondma...@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
A license is something that is granted by the author at distribution-time,
it need not be included in the package contents. If an author wholly owns
the copyright on their work, they can offer the
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