Legal Bounds of Licensing...
V. Alex Brennen
alexb at ufl.edu
Tue Sep 28 16:57:59 UTC 1999
Could anyone tell me which of the following would be legally
possible with a license in the US?
- Restrict people from using the licensed code in programs
which link with proprietary libraries
- Restrict people from using the licensed code in programs
which call services (through CORBA ORB, RMI etc) which
are provided by proprietary code
- Restrict people from using the licensed code in programs
which work with closed protocols, specifications or APIs
- Require that any content (data) produced by my program be
distributed under my license
- If the answer to the above is no, would it be yes if the
produced content was a program and that program included
source code generated dynamically by my program? what if
the source code was not generated dynamically, but came
from a template which was part of the originally licensed
code?
Basically, I have written an IDE for GNU/Linux which I'm
about to release. I would like to dual license it under
the GPL and a license which I will write. I would like the
second license to go to greater lengths than the GPL does
in it's effort to help make software free. I am curious
what the legal bounds would be for the efforts of the second
license.
I would think that since a license is a contract, I can
set any conditions I wish. However, I have been told by
other parties that this is not the case. Thanks for any
help in clearing this up...
- VAB
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