Re: [License-discuss] [License-review] License Ragnarök

2018-10-24 Thread VM Brasseur (OSI)
Please move this conversation to license-discuss. (a reply should do it, since I set the reply-to accordingly) Thank you, --V > On 24 Oct 2018, at 18:59, Lawrence Rosen wrote: > > Larry Rosen asked: > > > And you should define "license Ragnarök." > > Josh Berkus answered: > > A state of uni

Re: [License-discuss] GPLv3 'permanent' license reinstatement?

2018-10-24 Thread John Cowan
On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 5:03 PM Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Time passes, things change. I may be in full compliance with the > license for years, during which time my license has been 'permanently > reinstated' according to the text. "cease all violation of the > License" indicates a point at which I

Re: [License-discuss] GPLv3 'permanent' license reinstatement?

2018-10-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Johnny A. Solbu dixit: >Is there an english version of that page? Eek. Yes, of course, but apparently the webserver is not intact currently. Normally, it was linked there, too… I’m digging it out of the Wayback Machine: A working version of the original German site *with* links to the other ver

Re: [License-discuss] GPLv3 'permanent' license reinstatement?

2018-10-24 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Wednesday 24 October 2018 23:37, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Read http://deb.li/quote for more. Thanks. Is there an english version of that page? Many of us dont read german. -- Johnny A. Solbu web site, http://www.solbu.net PGP key ID: 0x4F5AD64DFA687324 signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [License-discuss] GPLv3 'permanent' license reinstatement?

2018-10-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Kevin P. Fleming dixit: >reinstated' according to the text. "cease all violation of the >License" indicates a point at which I have returned to being in full >compliance, not an ongoing state of affairs (at least in my layman's I actually looked up the various translations of “cease” into my nati

Re: [License-discuss] GPLv3 'permanent' license reinstatement?

2018-10-24 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Time passes, things change. I may be in full compliance with the license for years, during which time my license has been 'permanently reinstated' according to the text. "cease all violation of the License" indicates a point at which I have returned to being in full compliance, not an ongoing state

Re: [License-discuss] GPLv3 'permanent' license reinstatement?

2018-10-24 Thread Smith, McCoy
"However, if you cease all violation of this License " is the precondition to that reinstatement condition. If you begin violating the terms again, how could you have "cease[d] all violation of th[e] License"? -Original Message- From: License-discuss [mailto:license-discuss-boun...@list

Re: [License-discuss] GPLv3 'permanent' license reinstatement?

2018-10-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Kevin P. Fleming dixit: >As I read this, if I violate the license terms, notice my own >violation, cure it, and at no time does anyone else notify me of my >violations, then my license is reinstated *permanently*. If the >reinstatement is indeed permanent, how could it ever be terminated >again if

[License-discuss] GPLv3 'permanent' license reinstatement?

2018-10-24 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Section 8 of the GPLv3 says this: You may not propagate or modify a covered work except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to propagate or modify it is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License (including any patent licenses granted under th