Re: [License-discuss] For Public Comment: The Contribution Public License

2019-08-05 Thread Moritz Maxeiner
I've incorporated several new suggestions and attached the new draft as plaintext. - More verbose initial paragraph that's explicit about both copyright and patent license grants - copyright notice -> contributor notice - "use or distribute this software with it" in clause 2 -> "use the hereby

Re: [License-discuss] For Public Comment: The Contribution Public License

2019-08-05 Thread Moritz Maxeiner
On Monday, 5 August 2019 19:34:39 CEST Nicholas Matthew Neft Weinstock wrote: > A few points that could do with some thought and possibly clarification: > > It doesn't seem like this license requires distribution of source code. It > seems like the original author could distribute an application

Re: [License-discuss] For Public Comment: The Contribution Public License

2019-08-05 Thread Nicholas Matthew Neft Weinstock
A few points that could do with some thought and possibly clarification: It doesn't seem like this license requires distribution of source code. It seems like the original author could distribute an application only as a precompiled binary, in which case subsequent recipients/modifiers would al

Re: [License-discuss] For Public Comment: The Contribution Public License

2019-08-05 Thread Moritz Maxeiner
On Monday, 5 August 2019 15:23:57 CEST Pamela Chestek wrote: > You've added confusion with these two new paragraphs: > >You are granted a perpetual, universal, non-exclusive, > no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except by not > fulfilling the above obligations) copyright

Re: [License-discuss] For Public Comment: The Contribution Public License

2019-08-05 Thread Pamela Chestek
You've added confusion with these two new paragraphs:        You are granted a perpetual, universal, non-exclusive,     no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except by not     fulfilling the above obligations) copyright license to use     and distribute this software without restrictio