Re: On the importance of per-file license information

2012-03-17 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Wise writes: > http://tieguy.org/blog/2012/03/17/on-the-importance-of-per-file-license-information/ Nice one, thank you. I wasn't aware of the Larry Rosen quote: “[O]ur goal is to pass on any important IP information that might be useful … in the place(s) [downstream licensees] are

On the importance of per-file license information

2012-03-17 Thread Paul Wise
http://tieguy.org/blog/2012/03/17/on-the-importance-of-per-file-license-information/ -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: license question

2012-03-17 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 17/03/2012 11:14, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors > wrote: >> Jérémy Lal writes: >>> If i can tell the author "here's a known license that fits your needs", >>> i can consider i answered him. >> >> That's difficult since I'm not quite sure what

Re: license question

2012-03-17 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 17/03/2012 16:14, Felyza Wishbringer wrote: > If, on contact, his goal is just wide-openness delivered in an > eccentric license, then I would recommend the WTFPL v2 located at > http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ which basically says you can do anything you > want to with the software. Its an eccentric

Re: license question

2012-03-17 Thread Felyza Wishbringer
If, on contact, his goal is just wide-openness delivered in an eccentric license, then I would recommend the WTFPL v2 located at http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ which basically says you can do anything you want to with the software. Its an eccentric license that is Debian compliant, and wide open. Otherw

Re: license question

2012-03-17 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:42:59 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > Well that is a fun license. > > I think it is attempting to say that the work doesn't qualify to have > copyright/patent laws applied to it. > > IMO it is way too vague to achieve that and cannot override copyright > law where copright law di

Re: license question

2012-03-17 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Jérémy Lal writes: >> If i can tell the author "here's a known license that fits your needs", >> i can consider i answered him. > > That's difficult since I'm not quite sure what he really wants. Is What he really wants is to be obtu

Re: license question

2012-03-17 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Jérémy Lal writes: > If i can tell the author "here's a known license that fits your needs", > i can consider i answered him. That's difficult since I'm not quite sure what he really wants. Is "You may not release the Software under a more restrictive license than this one." trying to say that

Re: license question

2012-03-17 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 17/03/2012 01:18, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Jérémy Lal writes: >> could anyone help me resolve this license question : >> https://github.com/isaacs/inherits/commit/0b5b6e9964ca > > That page contains more than one question. If i can tell the author "here's a known license that fits your n