Re: [License-discuss] [Fedora-legal-list] The license of OpenMotif (Open Group Public License)

2018-10-26 Thread John Cowan
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 3:36 PM Florian Weimer wrote: > "The license must not place restrictions on other software that is > > distributed along with the licensed software. For example, the license > > must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium > > must be free softwar

Re: [License-discuss] [Fedora-legal-list] The license of OpenMotif (Open Group Public License)

2018-10-26 Thread Florian Weimer
* Adam Jackson: > On Thu, 2018-10-25 at 22:56 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: >> Motif has since been released under the LGPL, so this is largely >> of historic interest. >> >> Was the license of OpenMotif ever submitted to OSI? >> >> >> >> Debian cl

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

2018-10-26 Thread Smith, McCoy
>>I do not believe the intent in the drafting was to provide a mechanism for a >>licensee to escape the obligations of the license, but I can't see how >>'permanently' could reasonably be interpreted in any other way. If you want to discern the intent and effect of the language in this license

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

2018-10-26 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
For what it's worth, this is not just an academic exercise, nor am I trying to waste the time of the fine people on this mailing list :-) I've been requested to consider having my employer join the GPL Cooperation Commitment, which effectively substitutes GPLv3's section 8 for the corresponding po