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.

(bsd, copyright, development, gpl, law, legal, licenses, mit, opensource, software)

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.

(bsd, gpl, licenses)

There Are Only Four Software Licenses

Amen! Open source needs an Anti-License Proliferation Treaty.

(licenses, opensource, software)

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…

(cc, ego, laptop, licenses, olpc, photo)

lj19: Derivative Works

The best summary of what constitutes a “derivative work” in open source. It's more complex than it needs to be :(

(copyright, law, legal, licenses, opensource, programming)