Re: [License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD

A page at opensource.com defines "open source" as follows: The term "open source" refers to something people can modify and share because its design is publicly accessible. The term originated in the context of software development to designate a

Re: [License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD

ense-discuss@lists.opensource.org mailto:license-discuss@lists.opensource.org>> Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD On Sun, Nov 11, 2018, 19:42 Lawrence Rosen Please comment directly on the 10-item W3C Royalty-Free License<https://www.w3.org/Consortium/P

Re: [License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD

On Sun, Nov 11, 2018, 19:42 Lawrence Rosen > Please comment directly on the 10-item W3C Royalty-Free License > > requirements. Can you incorporate them somehow into the OSD? > I haven't evaluated them yet. It would probably b

Re: [License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD

D that deals with both copyrights and patents? /Larry From: Bruce Perens Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2018 7:02 PM To: Lawrence Rosen ; license-discuss@lists.opensource.org Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD Larry, Dave Rudin is in the group of supporte

Re: [License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD

er > licenses." That is the entire purpose of "license-discuss@" rather than > "license-review@". I am obeying Simon Phipps and others when I moved this > discussion here. Indeed, it is a great place to discuss open standards, > royalty-free patents, and lots of

Re: [License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD

It's always part of my talk: "Of course, we'd rather software patents went away entirely." On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 5:49 AM Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Lawrence Rosen dixit: > > >this phrase: "We want open standards, with royalty-free patents, for > >open source software." > > Actually, we want that

Re: [License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD

Lawrence Rosen dixit: >this phrase: "We want open standards, with royalty-free patents, for >open source software." Actually, we want that patents don’t apply to software. bye, //mirabilos -- I believe no one can invent an algorithm. One just happens to hit upon it when God enlightens him. Or o

Re: [License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD

d, it is a great place to discuss open standards, royalty-free patents, and lots of open source software issues, before OSI acts on its own. From: License-discuss On Behalf Of Bruce Perens Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2018 12:56 AM To: license-discuss@lists.opensource.org Subject: Re

Re: [License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD

Nicholas, No problem. OSI is fighting in the standards arena and the EU with very well-funded entities that insist that Open Source is only about copyright and wish to assert their royalties on standard-essential patents when there is an Open Source implementation. The way they have gone about it

Re: [License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD

Subject: [EXTERNAL] RE: [License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD Nicholas Weinstein wrote: > But with patents only the first inventor gets patent protection, so there is > always a possibility that someone who has never contributed to the project > has a valid patent cove

Re: [License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD

Hi Bruce, I’m sorry, I think there’s a disconnect. I read Larry’s statement to be about the definition of Open Source Software, but you’re referring to standards and patents in standards. I didn’t intend to get into a discussion of standards. I don’t have a problem with Open Source Licenses t

Re: [License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD

> > > *From:* Nicholas Matthew Neft Weinstock > *Sent:* Friday, November 9, 2018 10:22 AM > *To:* license-discuss@lists.opensource.org; lro...@rosenlaw.com > *Subject:* RE: [License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD > > Lawrence Rosen wrote: > > > In

Re: [License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD

Please copy freely. > > > From: Nicholas Matthew Neft Weinstock > Sent: Friday, November 9, 2018 10:22 AM > To: license-discuss@lists.opensource.org; lro...@rosenlaw.com > Subject: RE: [License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD > > Lawrence Rosen wrote: > >

Re: [License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD

: RE: [License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD Lawrence Rosen wrote: Instead, as long as the five basic freedoms on the cover of my book are protected, software will be open source enough for me. That is why I have proposed this common definition: “Open sourc

Re: [License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD

Lawrence Rosen wrote: Instead, as long as the five basic freedoms on the cover of my book are protected, software will be open source enough for me. That is why I have proposed this common definition: “Open source software” means software actually distributed to the public under software

Re: [License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD

Thank you for this. > On Nov 7, 2018, at 11:19 PM, Lawrence Rosen wrote: > > The initial debate between RMS and the OSI founders was some confusing > nonsense over socialism vs. capitalism (in technical lingo as software > license language rather than politics). I was initially confused. I fou

[License-discuss] Open source software licenses and the OSD

The initial debate between RMS and the OSI founders was some confusing nonsense over socialism vs. capitalism (in technical lingo as software license language rather than politics). I was initially confused. I found myself in the capitalist tribe at OSI, although my socialist parents would have