Re: [sword-devel] Notice in licence agreement

2009-04-25 Thread Jonathan Morgan
On 4/24/09, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: > Quoting DM Smith : > > > I like your suggestion. Give that CC are legal licenses, it appears > > that this summary is complete, perhaps drafted by lawyers :0 > > > > The problem with it is that it's too long. I don't want to give a legally > correct statement, o

Re: [sword-devel] Notice in licence agreement

2009-04-24 Thread jhphx
Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: ... The point is to tell shortly what they can do: obtain and use it freely for almost any purpose. AND that distributing is allowed within certain limits. My clause about distributing is too limited as was pointed out. However, it's not legally binding and it still tells

Re: [sword-devel] Notice in licence agreement

2009-04-24 Thread DM Smith
On Apr 24, 2009, at 2:48 AM, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: Would it be good idea to put a notice with licence agreement in each frontend which says that "this software can be obtained with no cost, if you have paid a large sum you may have been fooled"?" Yes. How about part of the banner/splash an

Re: [sword-devel] Notice in licence agreement

2009-04-24 Thread Tonny Kohar
Hi, On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: > Anyways, even if we forget the exact wording, the other point was even more > important. Would the frontend developers like to use this kind of statement, > crafted carefully, in all frontends? We don't know yet how our apps will be >

Re: [sword-devel] Notice in licence agreement

2009-04-23 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
Quoting DM Smith : I like your suggestion. Give that CC are legal licenses, it appears that this summary is complete, perhaps drafted by lawyers :0 The problem with it is that it's too long. I don't want to give a legally correct statement, only a short and easily understandable statement

Re: [sword-devel] Notice in licence agreement

2009-04-23 Thread DM Smith
I like your suggestion. Give that CC are legal licenses, it appears that this summary is complete, perhaps drafted by lawyers :0 -- DM On Apr 23, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: 2009/4/24 DM Smith : I appreciate and understand that we (myself included) don' like it when free/Fr

Re: [sword-devel] Notice in licence agreement

2009-04-23 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
2009/4/24 DM Smith : > > I appreciate and understand that we (myself included) don' like it when > free/Free software is sold, especially when it is our effort, but the GPL > clearly allows for that. Even we can do that! Totally agree > The GLP requires that the user be told that the software sou

Re: [sword-devel] Notice in licence agreement

2009-04-23 Thread DM Smith
On Apr 23, 2009, at 7:38 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: 2009/4/23 Eeli Kaikkonen "BibleTime is released under the GPL licence.You can download and use (but not distribute) the program for personal, private, public or commercial purposes without restrictions.You can give away or distribute

Re: [sword-devel] Notice in licence agreement

2009-04-23 Thread Greg Hellings
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > > > 2009/4/23 Eeli Kaikkonen >> >> "BibleTime is released under the GPL licence.You can download and use (but >> not distribute) the program for personal, private, public or commercial >> purposes without restrictions.You can give away or

Re: [sword-devel] Notice in licence agreement

2009-04-23 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
2009/4/23 Eeli Kaikkonen > "BibleTime is released under the GPL licence.You can download and use (but > not distribute) the program for personal, private, public or commercial > purposes without restrictions.You can give away or distribute the program if > you also distribute the corresponding so

[sword-devel] Notice in licence agreement

2009-04-23 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
Would it be good idea to put a notice with licence agreement in each frontend which says that "this software can be obtained with no cost, if you have paid a large sum you may have been fooled"? Usually applications have an About dialog. It could be put there. More importantly, it could be inc