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There are several licenses which use this Exhibit B all claiming to be open source companies, products, etc. None of them have submitted their licenses for approval to my knowledge. Is it possible to submit their license on their behalf so there can be an actual determination?<BR>
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<B>If not, can I submit my own license?</B> Ie, just like they all use the same Exhibit B template can I submit a license "ForcedAttributionCompany Public License" with the Exhibit B for determination? <BR>
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IMHO, they are not. There is a very broad audience now buying into these "apps" as open source; these additions to the open source community are not as educated as those on the infrastructure side. It seems the very people that could use an OSI service most (newbie open source USERs) would benefit greatly from a determination from OSI on the Exhibit B's of the world.<BR>
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Please let me know if I can prepare a license for submission "ForcedAttributionCompany Public License." I know it is strange to submit a license with an expectation it be rejected but the outcome remains just as important (determining if Exhibit B meets OSD or not).<BR>
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Kind Regards,<BR>
Nick<BR>
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On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 21:41 +0000, David Woolley wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> APL contains the attached (below) Exhibit B. I have three questions if I may:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> a) Could you please let us know if such Exhibit B is compliant with MPL1.1?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I think you need a lawyer, or at least the author of the MPL, to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">answer that.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> b) Is APL a valid Open Source license (I cannot find any reference in</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> OpenSource.org)?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">It wouldn't have got through in the last few years without a lot</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">of obvious negative comment, so I don't think it is approved.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Note that the only official purpose for this list is obtaining</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">such approval, and that is best done by a request by the author</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">of the licence terms.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> c) Can a Contributor force the User of an Open Source license to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> display such a message on each and every screen of all his GUIs?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Wouldn't it be enough to refer to it in the Source Code and in the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> About box?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">The BSD licence with the advertising clause is open source, so I don't</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">think there is any absolute bar. However, such a licence would be</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">incompatible with anything more restrictive than a BSD licence, so </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I would expect it to be shunned by the open source community.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Generally people want licences that allow one to extract code and</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">use it in other contexts, e.g. ones in which there is no rastererised</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">user interface.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Versions" and (iii) the copyright notice in the same form as the latest</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> version of the Covered Code distributed by Alfresco Software, Inc. at</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I doubt that they mean copyright notice. The copyright notice tends</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">to be, at least in part, a property of a specific version (I guess</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">it could vary if the copyright ownership was assigned). I wonder if</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">they mean the licence terms?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">IANAL, so TINLA.</FONT>
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