From: Marius Amado Alves <maa@liacc.up.pt>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: [Announce] Mneson : persistent untyped graphs
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 13:01:01 +0000
Date: 2004-03-24T13:01:01+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.124.1080132478.327.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnc62nhh.482.randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@k-083152.nt.ntnu.no>
[Regarding SDC Conditions, the licensing terms of Mneson,
http://www.liacc.up.pt/~maa/mneson]
> In the way that somebody wanted to use it in a non-commercial (GM)GPL
> program.
If it's non-commercial, just use it.
> I don't find any statements about this license.
There is some amount of discussion and commentary in SDC and OSI fora.
> Neither is it on the OSI list as I can see.
It is open source, but no, not OSI-compliant. The SDC license breaches clause
6 of the OSD under a certain conservative interpretation of that clause,
namely one whereby "restrict" means "requiring a separate deal". It seems
this is the official interpretation by OSI. I'm liberal so I call it open
source. It does not hurt any other clause of the OSD.
The commercial-open source clash is still an open issue. Never mind. Just use
it. If it's commercial, tell the authors. They'll cut you a fair deal. You'll
not have to pay unless you get rich, and then it doesn't hurt you. That's the
gist of it. Ignore the legalese. "Just do it."
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-23 20:39 [Announce] Mneson : persistent untyped graphs Marius Amado Alves
2004-03-24 7:42 ` Preben Randhol
2004-03-24 17:37 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-03-24 10:08 ` Preben Randhol
2004-03-24 13:01 ` Marius Amado Alves [this message]
2004-03-28 15:38 ` Licensing issues (Was: [Announce] Mneson : persistent untyped graphs) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-03-28 22:10 ` tmoran
2004-03-29 12:16 ` Marin David Condic
2004-03-29 13:08 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-03-29 14:02 ` Marin David Condic
2004-03-31 7:35 ` David Starner
2004-03-31 11:27 ` Licensing issues (Was: [Announce] Mneson : persistentuntyped graphs) Marius Amado Alves
2004-03-30 2:46 ` Licensing issues (Was: [Announce] Mneson : persistent untyped graphs) Stephen Leake
2004-03-30 11:54 ` Marin David Condic
2004-03-30 15:07 ` Licensing issues Florian Weimer
2004-03-30 17:56 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-03-31 0:07 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-04-03 17:10 ` Florian Weimer
2004-03-31 7:36 ` Licensing issues (Was: [Announce] Mneson : persistent untyped graphs) David Starner
2004-03-31 12:27 ` Marin David Condic
2004-03-31 14:16 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-04-01 16:48 ` Licensing issues (Was: [Announce] Mneson : persistent untyped Robert I. Eachus
2004-03-30 18:53 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-03-31 12:31 ` Marin David Condic
2004-03-29 0:45 ` Licensing issues (Was: [Announce] Mneson : persistent untypedgraphs) Marius Amado Alves
2004-04-01 17:09 ` Licensing issues Jacob Sparre Andersen
[not found] ` <200403241301.01079.maa@liacc.up.pt>
2004-03-24 19:27 ` [Announce] Mneson Manual Marius Amado Alves
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