... Any ideas welcome in order to simplify the wording. This is an open initiative. Please feel free to contribute ;-) But I think it is rather clear. As...
Cf Contribution agreement of the Apache Foundation: http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt . Grant of Copyright License. Subject to the terms and conditions...
... Of course no. The exact wording is: "The fee for a particular version may only be increased in line with general price inflation in the currency used to...
... I'm sorry, but I still don't see why this would have to be in the definition. As you said, the author can still refuse a contribution in kind, and require...
... That's ok for open source, but for collaborative/fair/cooperative source I would choose something slightly different. Furthermore, this agreement is only...
... Alright, I understand, and I can agree with that then, since its necessary to prevent extortion due to vendor lock-in. I'm not sure whether the general...
Hi Harry I start with your last email... ... The question is not here. The question is: What is the minimum set of common points you want to assure for a ...
... Please Henry read carefully and do not misinterpret our license or the CSD definition. Our license clearly mentionnes: "Your Error Corrections, Shared ...
... Because point 4 is not an option up to the orignial Author A. This is an obligation. So this is more: 4. A may accept or decline the contribution. Refusal...
Sorry Stéphane, apparently I *did* misread part of your license. Section 2.2b is clear to me now. Did you ever hear any complaints about contributors having...
I'm joining together separate mails here... But first, let me say that after reading your license a couple of times, and after the discussions we've had, I...
I've been lurking. Excelent discussion. I find no unsurmountable differences. I would aim for a revised "definition" that would fit all variants. Probably less...
... Do you have any idea how and where to apply? I bet you have to have a pretty good project description first. ... Good thinking, Marius! Should we name it...
... I have an idea of the basics. We need a project of course, and also a consortium, and a consortium agreement ready by the time of the funding contract....
... No, it is more the opposite. For maintenance reasons (mainly upgrading reasons), customers prefer seeing their patches and fixes in the CVS of the main...
... No problem. You raised certain good points too that will need further investigation such as forcing acceptance or not of a contribution (and the limit of...
... I am not so sure that MySQL AB would be interested by such a project as they heavily rely (marketing, history, distribution with Linux distrib,...) on the...
... accept it ... them to ... just be ... Yes. Great idea. Let's try to find a case. ... would be ... Yes. I don't know SUN and Java licensing, I'll let you...
... Let's define a project first, then sollicit companies (they probably won't join something as vague as we have now). I agree SUN with Java would bring a lot...
... In my opinion an author shouldn't be forced to accept anything. In practice, most authors will gladly accept good contributions, as it saves them valueable...
Correct me here, but SUN is american, yes? I saw some provision for non-european partnership in the FP6 rules, but it must be special. We'll have to check...
... Did I say SUN as a partner? Didn't mean that. I just meant to say that if SUN were to use one of our licenses for Java, that would give a great boost to...
... Yes. The project will have some kind of "USA connection", even if only logical. From SUN and other USA companies--even Microsoft--we could try to obtain a...
Incidently SUN filed a request for OSI-compliance certification today. http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi? 3:mss:9125:200412:dmcacncfamieofeochbn...
... The main deliverables namely the Foundation and the Definition will be global. It can happen that many legal studies and/or concrete licenses be European....
Yes, in form of the Common Development and Distribution License. They made a couple of good improvements to the Mozilla Public License, which formed the basis...
... American anti-trust law specifically forbids charging customer's of the same "class" different prices. The other princible that it applies to normal...
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