Re: request-tracker3: license shadiness
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Josh Triplett wrote:
> In that case, would you consider the clause Free if it said "when
> the author of such alterations submits them for inclusion in the
> work"? That would make such assignment entirely voluntary.
Possibly. I'm not entirely enthused about clauses like this because
they really don't have any reason to be in a license at all.
Companies like this should do due dilligence and request copyright
assignment or specific licensing before incorporating a patch rather
than relying on their license to do it for them. [Ie, do what the FSF
does for contributions to GNU projects...]
If possible, I'd strongly suggest that someone suggest to companies
and licensors with similar terms follow the lead of the FSF. It's the
intelligent way to avoid a SCO like case that actually has merits.
Don Armstrong
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has to be the HP-48 series of calculators. They'll run almost
anything. And if they can't, while I'll just plug a Linux box into
the serial port and load up the HP-48 VT-100 emulator.
-- Jeff Dege, jdege@winternet.com
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