discuss: Bento Poetic License (resubmission)

[Brian Behlendorf]

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Michael St . Hippolyte wrote:
> Our intention is not to enforce trademark rights, but to protect
> the value of our copyright, specifically our copyright on the Bento
> Language Specification.  If a product claims to support Bento, but
> in reality what it supports is an adulterated version of Bento, it
> has violated our copyright, just as distributing adulterated versions
> of a novel would violate its copyright.  It's an unfair use of our
> source code.

Sun wanted the same thing with Java, to make adherence to a published
standard part of the copyright license.  Unfortunately for you, it's been
well established that such a desire is not compatible with the Open Source
definition.

	Brian



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