Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 05:45:39PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
>> Indeed. Larry Rosen, who is an attorney and is the legal advisor to the
>> Board of the Open Source Initiative[1], is a major advocate of
>> converting copyright licenses into contracts[2], as are major me
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 05:41:23PM +0530, Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
> The GNU/GPL, OTOH, does not impose an obligation on *use*. Obviously,
> the FSF does not require it to be `accepted'. The policy of certain
> package installation software, (typically on non-free platforms)
> insisting on t
Branden Robinson said on Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 05:45:39PM -0500,:
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 07:29:57PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > To veer off the subject a little, we don't like licenses which
> > engage in too much contract-like behavior, because they're
> > usually non-free.
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 05:45:39PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Indeed. Larry Rosen, who is an attorney and is the legal advisor to the
> Board of the Open Source Initiative[1], is a major advocate of
> converting copyright licenses into contracts[2], as are major media[3]
> and proprietary so
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 07:29:57PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> To veer off the subject a little, we don't like licenses which engage
> in too much contract-like behavior, because they're usually non-free.
> In particular, any license which requires that you agree to it in
> order to *use* it -
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