On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <ladyp...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi Boris, > on his Haifux talk about legal issues, this is a tricky subject. The FSF > compliance lab team ( http://www.fsf.org/licensing/team) supplies paid > counseling for companies which wish to do what you want. > Before i say to my employer to pay someone i wish to be sure in what i say , For instance i do know that there is no problem with BSD license software (invokation) or use of apache services. I didn't know there any representatives of FSF in IL , i guess I should start reading more israel LUGS. And i know of many talented law and software people are reading this list. The tricky thing is the intent of the license. As I understand, even if you > follow the license to the letter, but not to the spirit, a judge may rule > against you in court. > I am not saying you can't do this, just that you need to legally verify > your steps carefully (linux-il does not count). > > Another thing Yoni said is that when you add exceptions etc. to the GPL, you > take away freedoms, and it makes GPLv3 null and void. You have a special > place where you can add non-legal personal statements, and that's it. > > Is there a place to get the lecture ? Orna. > Any way i'm going to ask this also on fsf mailing list and Nmap's thank for the help. P.s Sorry didn't see the messages till now.. -- -- Boris Shtrasman ------------ |Gnu/Linux Software developer | | IM : bo...@jabber.com | | URL : myrtfm.blogspot.com| _______________________________
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