Re: Help with SPIN License
Scripsit mcguire@cs.utexas.edu
> 4.0 MODIFICATIONS. You agree to provide the Original Contributor, at
> its request, with a copy of t he complete Source Code version, Object
> Code version and related documentation for Modifica tions created or
> contributed to by You.
Debian-legal usually views such clauses as non-free.
> Original Contributor and/or other Contributors shall have
> unrestricted, n onexclusive, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free
> rights, to use, reproduce, modify, display, perform, sublicense an d
> distribute Your Modifications, and to grant third parties the right
> to do so, including without limitation as a part of or with the Licensed
> Software;
And this is even worse - upstream wants the right to re-release my
modifications as proprietary code.
> 6.0 TERMINATION 6.1 The licenses and rights granted under this Agreement
> shall terminate automatica lly if (i) You fail to comply with all of
> the terms and conditions herein; or (ii) You initiate or participat e
> in any intellectual property action against Original Contributor and/or
> another Contributor.
Argh. A termination clause that triggers by any legal action that
relates to intellectual property.
> 11.0 LICENSE VERSIONS. LUCENT, at its sole discretion, may from time to
> time publish a revised and/or new version of this Agreement (each such
> revised or new version shall carry a disti nguishing version number)
> which shall govern all copies of Licensed Software downloaded after
> the posting of s uch revised or new version of this Agreement.
This is badly worded. Would it cover copies that are downloaded from,
say, a Debian mirror after Lucent decides to revoke the license?
--
Henning Makholm "Ambiguous cases are defined as those for which the
compiler being used finds a legitimate interpretation
which is different from that which the user had in mind."
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