Re: Choosing a License: GNU APL? AFL 3.0?

2008-01-02 Thread Sean B. Palmer
On Jan 2, 2008 11:12 AM, Sean B. Palmer wrote: > the question being the fairly subtle one of whether unqualified > permission to modify a file *entails* modification of copyright > notices. Ah, this may in fact be irrelevant! "The phrase /above copyright notice/ is somew

Re: Choosing a License: GNU APL? AFL 3.0?

2008-01-02 Thread Sean B. Palmer
hat I know how to make, and ask friends and people on debian-legal and so on... In other words, if you have evidence that's better than mine, please do tell me! -- Sean B. Palmer, http://inamidst.com/sbp/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2008-01-02 Thread Sean B. Palmer
7;t be able to know that now since you weren't patient enough to find out :-) > Have they fixed that google bug where you can hide whole > threads by sending a known spam body [&c.] This is off-topic for this list as far as I understand, but I've not heard of this bug before

Re: Eiffel Forum License v2 [was: Re: Choosing a License: GNU APL? AFL 3.0?]

2008-01-01 Thread Sean B. Palmer
hanks to everyone for that; and sorry to spoil your bad reputation :-) -- Sean B. Palmer, http://inamidst.com/sbp/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Choosing a License: GNU APL? AFL 3.0?

2008-01-01 Thread Sean B. Palmer
ndates the preservation of copyright notices... No, it says the "above copyright notice and this permission notice" only. When you're using a LICENSE.txt file, that means the content of the LICENSE.txt file only. It doesn't say anything about anything else. > Disclaimers: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP. Same here! :-) -- Sean B. Palmer, http://inamidst.com/sbp/

Re: Choosing a License: GNU APL? AFL 3.0?

2007-12-31 Thread Sean B. Palmer
package they apply to are retained and preserved. > http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/001398.php > http://www.epic.org/privacy/gmail/faq.html > http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/ > http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2006/google Well at least you're not forced to use Google Mail. N

Re: Choosing a License: GNU APL? AFL 3.0?

2007-12-31 Thread Sean B. Palmer
us email in this thread. I would need to delete a single clause to, I think, make it fully compatible with my requirements. Is it DFSG compatible in your opinion? It doesn't seem to be widely used, sadly. -- Sean B. Palmer, http://inamidst.com/sbp/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Choosing a License: GNU APL? AFL 3.0?

2007-12-31 Thread Sean B. Palmer
port List-Post and > other common mailing list behaviours? You're the user, after all. Because I don't know that it's common, and I don't mind the behaviour myself (I think that good clients should drop duplicates). Thanks, -- Sean B. Palmer, http://inamidst.com/sb

Re: Choosing a License: GNU APL? AFL 3.0?

2007-12-30 Thread Sean B. Palmer
On Dec 30, 2007 5:51 PM, Sean B. Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A = Allows short statement of application > B = Preserves copyright statements and notices > C = Allows distribution without full license text > D = License is or may be fixed to exclude later versions An

Re: Choosing a License: GNU APL? AFL 3.0?

2007-12-30 Thread Sean B. Palmer
hat the following might be okay: * * * Copyright 2007, Sean B. Palmer, inamidst.com Released to the public under the CDDL, v1.0 only. * * * But that column C failure is a shame. Note that though every single common license failed column C, some licenses such as the AFL 3.0 do pass that column.

Re: Choosing a License: GNU APL? AFL 3.0?

2007-12-30 Thread Sean B. Palmer
ed under the Academic Free License version 3.0' - http://opensource.org/licenses/academic.php So I could use that as follows: * * * #!/bin/sh # Copyright 2007, Sean B. Palmer, inamidst.com # Licensed under the Academic Free License version 3.0. [&c.] * * * And now you can make modif

Re: Choosing a License: GNU APL? AFL 3.0?

2007-12-30 Thread Sean B. Palmer
nes have to be 70 column long? Nobody; but Guido van Rossum says they must be 79 columns :-) Really the difference comes down to the following: * * * Copyright 2007, Sean B. Palmer, inamidst.com Released to the public under the Example License. * * * Compared to: * * * Copyright 2007, Sean B

Choosing a License: GNU APL? AFL 3.0?

2007-12-30 Thread Sean B. Palmer
ect the notice. Please read my badly explained requirements carefully :-) Probably I'm just hoping for the moon, but maybe someone can help me out here? Thanks, -- Sean B. Palmer, http://inamidst.com/sbp/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]