[License-discuss] Consideration stewardship

2019-06-18 Thread Alexander Terekhov
It has come to my mind that the problem of consideration (lack thereof) in FLOSS licensing can be solved by accepting consideration in form of registration so that authors can keep track of executions for later https://www.copyright.gov/recordation/termination.html / revocation. Would OSI be willi

Re: [License-discuss] OSL and GPLv3

2019-06-18 Thread Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz via License-discuss
Dear Antoine, Providing a definitive legal answer (and certainty) in your specific case is difficult. At Joinup.eu we constantly promote interoperability and the respect of primary licences. Therefore, in our view, a global project may include components under several licences and each component sh

Re: [License-discuss] OSL and GPLv3

2019-06-18 Thread Antoine Thomas
Patrice, thanks a lot for your answer. About your introduction question: the original code of PrestaShop project is currently in OSL, with some modules in AFL. We also rely on librairies in MIT and BSD, shipped with the installer (like the Symfony framework). But, we would like to use a few librai

Re: [License-discuss] OSL and GPLv3

2019-06-18 Thread Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz via License-discuss
Dear Antoine, It seems related to the question: how far is your project (that would be globally licensed under OSL) a derivative of the GPL-3.0 code, or not? It is also related to your legal framework, in so far the various codes are more or less closely linked. The European legal framework conside