From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 15 13:42:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 806CE37B401 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:42:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 744A543F3F for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:42:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with ESMTP id <20030115214250003005uvo7e>; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 21:42:50 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h0FLfqm9087077; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:41:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id h0FLfkv2087074; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:41:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: fischermi@t-online.de (Michael Fischer) Cc: Subject: Re: Question about the BSD License References: From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 15 Jan 2003 13:41:46 -0800 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 37 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG fischermi@t-online.de (Michael Fischer) writes: > But I could not found some of this information about the license. I only > found a template: You should study your template better. It's quite clear about the issues you raised. Your best bet on the more tricky issues is to find past discussions in mailing lists and Usenet, using groups.google.com, starting in the *bsd* lists/groups. > Do you have more information where I can found more? Not specifically about BSDish licences, but you should read about the general subject (and probably from some .de sites too). http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/ http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/ http://www.fplc.edu/TFIELD/CopySof.htm http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/circs/index.html http://www.duq.edu/Technology/copy/copylaw1.html http://www.x.org/xlicense.htm http://bs.mit.edu/pgp/mitlicen.html /usr/src/ has examples of 4-term, 3-term, and 2-term BSDish licenses. Consider that you're probably going to provide a license over only one or two things: non-exclusive rights to create copies and derivatives and to publish them. Everything else is conditions and terms. If you want to be generous, waive your copyrights, or use a BSDish license. If you want to punish closed-source developers or require their payment in money or cross-licensing, use a copyleft/GPLish license. If you want to be selfish, use a closed-souce license. These are gross simplifications, of course. A lawyer would probably want you to have a much longer license than BSDish licenses, even to achieve the same general effect. Consult one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message