[License-discuss] Database of all licenses?

2021-04-06 Thread James
'd prefer not having to curate my own list if possible. I'd also like to assign each of these a unique name similar to SPDX. I suppose getting the blackduck database would be an excellent option, but I imagine that data might be proprietary, and I'd like to consume a

Re: [License-discuss] Modified Apache License

2021-02-07 Thread James
elated to this "in the wild" or if this is merely a preventative change to reduce that possibility. (In fact if anyone has experienced trademark issues as a result of Apache V2, please let us all know.) Thanks, James ___ The opinions expres

Re: [License-discuss] [License-review] For approval: The Cryptographic Autonomy License (Beta 4)

2020-01-04 Thread James
ear that the licenses are not OSI-approved. This is a really brilliant proposal that I think we should accept. It would help with license proliferation, and it would probably help prove that we only need five licenses for new works: MIT, ALv2, [A|L]GPLv3+. Thanks, James

Re: [License-discuss] Open Source Software Question.

2019-10-04 Thread James
or user access is under > proprietary licence. Is it dually-licensed (ie: available under two different licenses) or is part of it under ALv2 and part under proprietary? Probably best to send us the GH link. Cheers, James > > Can someone claim a software to be an open source by restri

Re: [License-discuss] OSI is not a trade association

2019-07-03 Thread James
On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 7:43 PM VanL wrote: > > Hi Christine, > > there are businesses and business plan that are fully aligned with the goals > of the community. Which ones? Thanks, James ___ License-discuss mailing list

Re: [License-discuss] OSI is not a trade association

2019-07-03 Thread James
On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 5:17 PM Bruce Perens wrote: > > James, I understand the problem of the companies pushing for that, but a > license that everyone can use except Amazon, or SaaS companies, or SaaS > companies over a certain size, isn't copyleft and isn't "str

Re: [License-discuss] OSI is not a trade association

2019-07-03 Thread James
On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 5:06 PM Bruce Perens via License-discuss wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 2:00 PM Christine Hall wrote: >> >> as long as there are permissive licenses, the enterprise is quite happy >> with the way things are. > > > Well, obviously, it's restrictive licenses they want fr

Re: [License-discuss] Government licenses

2019-06-03 Thread James
;s pretty obvious: requiring copyleft, it usually ensures (modulo above question) that one entity can't take the work proprietary. Wikipedia is a similar example where the choice of license was chosen to benefit the commons. Thanks, James ___ Lic

Re: [License-discuss] License licenses

2019-05-31 Thread James
icense as well. In this case CC0: https://github.com/copyleft-next/copyleft-next/blob/master/CC0 HTH James PS: Cheap plug: teaching lawyers git skills: https://github.com/purpleidea/legal-hackers ___ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.op

Re: [License-discuss] License licenses

2019-05-30 Thread James
n source stuff is being done on a proprietary platform-- I'd like to avoid that, but for popularity reasons, I've stayed for now. Cheers, James ___ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org

Re: [License-discuss] Evolving the License Review process for OSI

2019-05-25 Thread James
rience IMO which breeds doubt. If someone wants to make a complaint, it should be public so that they are accountable for it as well, so that it's only used when it's really necessary. Thanks, James ___ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org