[Server-devel] [XSCE] copyright and licensing

[Adam Holt]

Anish,

Can you lay out the AGPL vs GPL choice before next week's Thur Nov 6
meeting?  (10AM NYC Time, OK for you?)

And make clear that content licensing (hosted by school server) is very
different, as schools/districts/ministries-of-education quite reasonably
insist they need to accommodate so many different kinds of content
licenses?  (Some of which licenses are plainly abusive, whereupon
communities/families/teachers/kids need to mobilize, when "publishing
innovation" becomes nothing more than a pretext mass surveillance and other
privacy abuses.)

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Anish Mangal <anishmangal2002 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> GPL or AGPL? Can/Should we ask the IIAB maintainers and contributors for
> permission to license under GPL if it's not too complicated?
> On Oct 31, 2014 8:52 PM, "Tim Moody" <tim at timmoody.com> wrote:
>
>>   I am starting to write larger chunks of code and wondering what
>> copyright and licensing I should include.  Any suggestions welcome.  (In
>> Canada copyright rests with the author unless it is relinquished.)
>>
>> Most XS code has something like:
>>
>> #  Copyright 2007, One Laptop per Child
>> #  Author: John Watlington
>> #
>> # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>> # modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License
>> # as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
>> # of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
>> #
>> # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>> # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>> # GNU General Public License for more details.
>> #
>> # You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
>> # License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
>> # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
>> # 02111-1307, USA.
>>
>> IIAB has:
>>
>> This software is licensed with the BSD 2-clause license
>> (See http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause)
>>
>> Copyright (c) 2013, Humane Informatics LLC
>> All rights reserved.
>>
>> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
>> modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
>> met:
>>
>>     Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
>> notice, this
>> list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
>>     Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
>> notice,
>> this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
>> and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
>>
>> THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS
>> IS" AND
>> ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
>> IMPLIED
>> WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
>> DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE
>> LIABLE
>> FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
>> DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
>> SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
>> CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
>> LIABILITY,
>> OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE
>> USE
>> OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> --
>> Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org !
>>
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