RE: OpenLDAP Licenseing issues

2003-05-23 Thread Howard Chu
re is the infamous 'advertising clause'. The > Regents have however, from my understanding, retroactively > removed that > clause from all of their licenses, at the request of the FSF. > In the HC > (Howard Chu) and PM (Pierangelo Masarati) there is 'should' do this > an

RE: OpenLDAP Licenseing issues

2003-05-24 Thread Howard Chu
o respect your wishes > regarding acknowledgement so long as we're distributing your code; the > issue only comes up because the GPL imposes contradictory requirements > that could prevent us from shipping LDAP-enabled binaries of many GPL > applications. I thank you for your c

Re: AGPLv3 Compliance and Debian Users

2013-07-11 Thread Howard Chu
C-R-U did the modifications then they are obligated to publish the source code, by virtue of the fact that giving the modified code to Company A is distributing it. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chi

Re: AGPLv3 Compliance and Debian Users

2013-07-11 Thread Howard Chu
Paul Tagliamonte wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:19:47PM -0700, Howard Chu wrote: Right, I want to understand AGPL's motivations is all. I used to put similar terms on my code, back before the GPL existed. Essentially: If you modify this code, you must send your modifications back

Re: AGPLv3 Compliance and Debian Users

2013-07-11 Thread Howard Chu
Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:53:01PM -0700, Howard Chu wrote: Sure, but that doesn't make it DFSG free (hint: it's likely not)[1][2] [1]: The Dissident test [2]: The Desert Island test Sure, but #2 is stupid. We didn't say "must send changes ba

Re: AGPLv3 Compliance and Debian Users

2013-07-11 Thread Howard Chu
g your own government, then complying with a license that can only be enforced by a government agency is probably the least of your worries. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, Open