Re: Panda3d Public License?
"Arc Riley" <arc@xiph.org> wrote in message
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Has anyone looked at Disney's "Panda3d Public License Version 2.0"?
http://www.panda3d.org/license.php
Clause 4 seems worrysome (requires sending signifigant changes to Disney).
Other parts seem redundant with copyright law.
Well Looking closely at the relevent clause:
An electronic copy of the source code for major modifications that You
make to the Software should
be forwarded to Licensor at Panda.Project@Disney.com as soon as the
modifications are significant or
stable enough for Licensor's evaluation for possible future distribution.
Alternatively, you may notify
Licensor of a location from which the modifications are available and may
be downloaded by Licensor
at Licensor's election.
If by "should" they mean: You are Strongly Encouraged, then the clause is
probbably acceptable.
Disney should be contacted for clarifiation.
Also Clause 4 has this potentially troubling line:
In addition, You must identify Yourself as the originator of the
modifications You made to the Software,
if any, in a manner that reasonably allows subsequent recipients to
identify You as the originator of the modifications.
It is unclear if this requires identification by name, or if identification
by psuedonym is acceptable.
Clause 10 is troubling as it madates following US export control laws.
That should not be a problem if Dinsney will clarify this as not being a
binding clause of the
licence, but is merely a non-binding reminder of the relevent US law.
It would be good to remind disney that they do not intend to sue over
violation of that clause,
so it need not be a binding clause of the licence.
Other portentially problematic clauses are clause 11, which appears to be
choice of venue.
All other clauses look fine to me. Most of them appear in more or less the
same form in other accepted licences.
So with a few clarifications from Disney, the licence could be compatable
with the DFSG except potentially for choice of venue.
IANAL, INADD.
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