On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 11:13:45PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Jim Wise wrote:
I'd like to point out a couple things that are _not_ wrong with the
current license:
1.) With the current license, contributors to the code are not opened
to legal liability
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Richard Poole wrote:
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 11:13:45PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Jim Wise wrote:
I'd like to point out a couple things that are _not_ wrong with the
current license:
1.) With the current license, contributors to
Philip Warner wrote:
Am I correct in saying that you agree that the GPL is where we should be,
but you want people to go there of their own free will?
Right. Someone who doesn't want to make his code "FREE" in
the entire meaning of this word but want to make it open for
any
Thus spake Jan Wieck
Right. Someone who doesn't want to make his code "FREE" in
the entire meaning of this word but want to make it open for
any non-commercial use should choose it. IMHO the GPL
While I am a proponent of keeping the BSD style license, there is nothing
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
Personally, from all the 'legal' issues that FreeBSD has gone through over
the years, especially recently with the BSDi/FreeBSD merger and the whole
cryptology merger, I would think they would have been the first to
adopt/change their BSD license
The Hermit Hacker wrote:
Okay, from seeing the responses so far on the list, I'm not the only one
that has issues with the whole "juristiction of virginia" issue *or* the
"slam this copyright in ppls faces" ... I do like the part in BOLD about
"ANY DEVELOPER" instead of just the "UNIVERSITY
On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Jan Wieck wrote:
The Hermit Hacker wrote:
Okay, from seeing the responses so far on the list, I'm not the only one
that has issues with the whole "juristiction of virginia" issue *or* the
"slam this copyright in ppls faces" ... I do like the part in BOLD about
"ANY
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 05:51:14PM +0200, Jan Wieck wrote:
The new license should clearly make it impossible to later
pull out things again.
I'm confused about this. I'm not a coder, so I beg forgiveness for my
intrusion, but how would it be possible to revoke the license on code
On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 05:51:14PM +0200, Jan Wieck wrote:
The new license should clearly make it impossible to later
pull out things again.
I'm confused about this. I'm not a coder, so I beg forgiveness for my
intrusion, but how
