Proposal for OSI Certification: The SteelBlue License

David Johnson david at usermode.org
Sat Sep 9 05:26:22 UTC 2000


On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, kmself at ix.netcom.com wrote:

> > I think you have misinterpreted the clause. The way I read it, they can
> > only yank rights away if the user does not abide by the license. This
> > isn't unilateral, it can only happen through specific action by the
> > user. 
> 
> Ok.  I see it this way.
> 
> In which case it appears that successor rights are also terminated (aka
> transmitted rights).  Cf:  Section 4 of the GNU GPL:  "However, parties
> who have received copies...".

Hmmm, a likely interpretation of "all copies thereof". It would be a
good thing for them to clarify this (or use an existing license :-) )

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David Johnson
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