Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:55:54 -0400 From: cfuhrman@iwaynet.net To: tlambert2@mindspring.com, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switching from LGPL to ??? License Message-ID: <999028554.3b8bf74a8b2fd@webmail.iwaynet.net> In-Reply-To: <3B8BE7D5.B9A0B3A5@mindspring.com> References: <999001492.3b8b8d94b71c3@webmail.iwaynet.net> <3B8BE7D5.B9A0B3A5@mindspring.com>
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Howdy, Quoting Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>: > Be careful. > > If you have accepted any contributions to the code, you will > either need to back them out, get the authors to assign rights > to the changes to you, or get the authors to agree with your > change in license, before you can do this. I will be contacting the contributors before releasing any new version under a new license. I believe there's only two or three people that I have to contact. > This depends on the level of control you want to maintain > over the code: > > o If you liked the goals of the LGPL,you might even > want to consider the eCOS license, etc.; there are > much better instrumentalities of the GNU manifesto > than the LGPL/GPL. I really don't mind if people use my code for their own profit but would like credit where credit is used. > > o If you would do public domain, but want to have a > hold harmless, you would probably be best served by > a BSD two clause license. The version of the BSD license I found that appears "current" is listed at this address: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.html The above version is the "three-clause" license *without* the claim-credit clause. Tenatively, it appears the "three-clause" license would meet my needs. Out of curiousity, which two clauses are in the BSD "two-clause" license? > > o The CMU License is similar to the BSD three clause > license: it has the restriction that you can't use > the author's name without permission, and it has the > same effect as the two clause "hold harmless"; it also > _requests_ that changes be sent back to the authors, > but doesn't require it. Could you provide a link to the CMU license? I google'd for it and came across the following link: http://asg2.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/license.html The above license does not appear to include the "request" clause. > > o The Artistic License permits you editorial control > over future versions of the code. It is rather more > restrictive with what can be done with the code, if > you are not involved. Okay, that rules out the Artistic License. I'm being pretty liberal here and would like to have a fair balance between my own and other people's "flerbage" (yes, I'm using ESR's coined word *g*) I appreciate your help :) > -- Terry > > - Chris Fuhrman cfuhrman@iwaynet.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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