On 2008-03-28, Peter Saint-Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. > > --------------ms030303010806020208040803 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Sune Vuorela wrote: >> On 2008-03-28, Peter Saint-Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. >>> >>> --------------ms020306050406060103010602 >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 >>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>> >>> Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >>>> It seems that the IETF Trust uses the "Non-Profit Open Software License >>>> 3.0" to license code written as work-for-hire under the auspices of the >>>> IETF (presumably this applies to efforts like the IETF Tools Team). >>>> >>>> The text of the license follows, as extracted from the PDF file linked >>>> to from <http://trustee.ietf.org/licenses.html>. >>>> >>>> Comments are welcome as to whether this license is DFSG-compliant. >>> At the least, 1(c) seems problematic: >>> >>>> 1) Grant of Copyright License. Licensor grants You a worldwide, >>>> royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicensable license, for the duration of >>>> the copyright, to do the following: >>> ... >>> >>>> c) to distribute or communicate copies of the Original Work and >>>> Derivative Works to the public, with the proviso that copies of Original >>>> Work or Derivative Works that You distribute or communicate shall be >>>> licensed under this Non-Profit Open Software License or as provided in >>>> section 17(d); >> >> Isn't that just plain copyleft? > > Yes, but do you want your code to be copylefted into using this license > instead of GPL or whatever?
That's just plain license incompabilities. Not a generic matter of freeness. (But having a license gplv2 compatible might be a good idea if they want to cooperate with the open source world) /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
