[Server-devel] [XSCE] copyright and licensing

[Adam Holt]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Anish Mangal <anishmangal2002 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> +1 to both. Will do.
>
Huge thanks -- added to meeting Agenda here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg

PS 10AM vs 11AM NYC Time Thursday ain't yet carved in stone.  Depends who
wins the arm wrestle -- Californians seems to prefer 11AM NYC Time while
Hong Kong residents prefer 10AM so they don't have to stay up till Midnight
before things even start -- perhaps we oscillate week by week :-)



> On Oct 31, 2014 9:37 PM, "Adam Holt" <holt at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>>
>>>
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