Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Activity tagged “licenses”
Bookmarks
Maintaining Permissive-Licensed Files in a GPL-Licensed Project: Guidelines for Developers - Software Freedom Law Center
Important guidlines from the SFLC on how to properly relicense permissively-licensed (i.e. BSD/MIT) code. Good to see that something positive came out of the whole Atheros driver kerfuffle.
Advice on relicensing from the SFLC [LWN.net]
Really, really useful for those taking BSD/MIT/etc. code and turning into GPL. I need to send this to the people GPL'ing parts of Django; so far nobody's doing it right.
There Are Only Four Software Licenses
Amen! Open source needs an Anti-License Proliferation Treaty.
OLPC BTest-2 XO beta machine sequel arrives - Engadget
Featuring a picture from PyCon by yours truly. Now if I could just get Engadget to respect the attribution clause of the photo's license…
lj19: Derivative Works
The best summary of what constitutes a “derivative work” in open source. It's more complex than it needs to be :(