Luis Villa asked: > Are you suggesting OSI should give legal advice, Larry? :)
I asked the question that way only to see if you are actually paying attention here. Members of this OSI list frequently give advice, although they preface it with IANAL or "please don't listen to me." When it comes to the GPL, that advice is sometimes wrong. Especially when they advise us to pay attention to certain legal opinions of the Free Software Foundation about copyright law. :-) > Obviously this is a fact-specific issue, though; consult with your own lawyer. :) I already have. I will again. /Larry -----Original Message----- From: Luis Villa [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 5:43 PM To: License Discuss Subject: Re: [License-discuss] License compatibility - reg On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Rick Moen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> And who does OSI suggest that any of us listen to on an important >> FOSS combination/project like this one? Are you suggesting OSI should give legal advice, Larry? :) The advice I have given clients in the past is to listen to the copyright holders. However, in cases where there is a large diversity of copyright holders for some reason (e.g., Linux kernel, many major web rendering engines), or where the exact set of copyright holders is not known (e.g., you're setting organization-wide policy for an unknown set of future projects) then treat the license author as a proxy for the views of the copyright holders, as some fraction of the copyright holders will likely follow the interpretation of the license authors. Obviously this is a fact-specific issue, though; consult with your own lawyer. :) Luis _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
