On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > Time to check it out again!
Quoting from https://www.helixcommunity.org/content/rpsl [2.1] (d) You must make Source Code of all Your Externally Deployed Modifications publicly available under the terms of this License, including the license grants set forth in Section 3 below, for as long as you Deploy the Covered Code or twelve (12) months from the date of initial Deployment, whichever is longer. You should preferably distribute the Source Code of Your Deployed Modifications electronically (e.g. download from a web site); and 1.7 "Externally Deploy" means to Deploy the Covered Code in any way that may be accessed or used by anyone other than You, used to provide any services to anyone other than You, or used in any way to deliver any content to anyone other than You, whether the Covered Code is distributed to those parties, made available as an application intended for use over a computer network, or used to provide services or otherwise deliver content to anyone other than You. This section has the same issues that the APSL has. IE, it fails the two person variant of the desert island test. Why people keep introducing this onerous term into their licenses is beyond me. And then the neatoid "if you sue us for patent violations, you can't use this software" section: 11.1 Term and Termination. The term of this License is perpetual unless terminated as provided below. This License and the rights granted hereunder will terminate: (c) automatically without notice from Licensor if You, at any time during the term of this License, commence an action for patent infringement against Licensor (including by cross-claim or counter claim in a lawsuit); There's been more than enough discussion about this particular problem on -legal and the descrimination against different fields of endeavor that it entails. As a parting note, it is troubling that they call a license version 1.0, and then have a revision date associated with it. The RPSL should really be refered to as RPSL version 1.0 as of 10/28/2002 or some such. [Or they should incrememnt the version numbers when they change something.] Don Armstrong -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot http://www.donarmstrong.com http://www.anylevel.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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