Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-03 Thread Matija Šuklje
On Thursday 03 of March 2011 03:49:47 Norbert Preining wrote: > On Mi, 02 Mär 2011, Martin Schröder wrote: > > *On topic* I'd also _very_ much like to see what's up with ConTeXt > > licensing. From what it seems it looks like TeX Live is relicensing > > ConTeXt in its > > ??? How do you come to th

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mi, 02 Mär 2011, Martin Schröder wrote: > *On topic* I'd also _very_ much like to see what's up with ConTeXt licensing. > From what it seems it looks like TeX Live is relicensing ConTeXt in its ??? How do you come to that conclusion? TeX Live is *NOT* relicensing *anything*. THe REDAME and COP

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Hans Hagen
On 2-3-2011 12:10, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi, On 03/02/11 11:41, Martin Schröder wrote: It's a nice joke, but for practical purposes a one-clause BSD license allows the same freedoms, but is legally clear. Same for me, but in collaborative works, that is usually not doable. Once a single line

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:40, Matija Šuklje wrote: > > *On topic* I'd also _very_ much like to see what's up with ConTeXt licensing. > From what it seems it looks like TeX Live is relicensing ConTeXt in its > distribution. And both helping the Gentoo Licensing team and being Deputy > Legal Coordina

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 12:08:35PM +0100, Martin Schröder wrote: > 2011/3/2 Khaled Hosny : > > I was about to say that, though I'm pro strong copyleft (AKA GPL when > > fits) myself, though I highly doubt, for practical reasons ;), that any > > one can take a BSD licensed ConTeXt and make a closed

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, On 03/02/11 11:41, Martin Schröder wrote: > > It's a nice joke, but for practical purposes a one-clause BSD > license allows the same freedoms, but is legally clear. Same for me, but in collaborative works, that is usually not doable. Once a single line of a project is GPL-ed, all of it has

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Martin Schröder
2011/3/2 Khaled Hosny : > I was about to say that, though I'm pro strong copyleft (AKA GPL when > fits) myself, though I highly doubt, for practical reasons ;), that any > one can take a BSD licensed ConTeXt and make a closed source derivative > with any substantial improvement. That may be legall

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 11:41:58AM +0100, Martin Schröder wrote: > 2011/3/2 Mojca Miklavec : > > I really like the particular answer pointing to bugroff licence: > >    http://www.reocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/5947/bugroff.html > > It's a nice joke, but for practical purposes a one-clause BSD > license

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Martin Schröder
2011/3/2 Mojca Miklavec : > I really like the particular answer pointing to bugroff licence: >    http://www.reocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/5947/bugroff.html It's a nice joke, but for practical purposes a one-clause BSD license allows the same freedoms, but is legally clear. Best Martin _

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Matija Šuklje
On Wednesday 02 of March 2011 11:30:03 Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 22:37, Joseph Wright wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > A question came up recently on the tex.sx site about ConTeXt licensing: > > > > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12431/using-context-commercially > > I r

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 22:37, Joseph Wright wrote: > Hello all, > > A question came up recently on the tex.sx site about ConTeXt licensing: > > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12431/using-context-commercially I really like the particular answer pointing to bugroff licence: http://www.re

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-01 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On 1 mrt. 2011, at 22:37, Joseph Wright wrote: > Hello all, > > A question came up recently on the tex.sx site about ConTeXt licensing: > > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12431/using-context-commercially > > I have a feeling I've seen something similar elsewhere recently, but > cann

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-01 Thread Miguel Queiros
> You won't get a more "official" response than > http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mreadme.pdf > > ". . . and don’t bother discussing licence issues and related things > with us for the mere sake of discussing licence stuff." > > If someone wants to use ConTeXt commercially I advise her

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-01 Thread Martin Schröder
2011/3/1 Joseph Wright : > This question seems to require an 'official' response, as things do seem > a little confusing (at least to me). I'm happy to post something as a You won't get a more "official" response than http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mreadme.pdf ". . . and don’t bother d

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-01 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Joseph Wright wrote: Hello all, A question came up recently on the tex.sx site about ConTeXt licensing: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12431/using-context-commercially I have a feeling I've seen something similar elsewhere recently, but cannot be sure where. Perh

[NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-01 Thread Joseph Wright
Hello all, A question came up recently on the tex.sx site about ConTeXt licensing: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12431/using-context-commercially I have a feeling I've seen something similar elsewhere recently, but cannot be sure where. This question seems to require an 'official' resp