Discuss: "Attribution Assurance License" (fwd)

[John Cowan]

At Ed Suominen's request, I am forwarding this to license-discuss.

> Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 08:58:24 -0700
> From: Ed Suominen <privaria at eepatents.com>
> Subject: Re: Discuss: "Attribution Assurance License"
> 
> John, I have prepared a template form of my Attribution Assurance 
> License for which I seek OSI approval. It is available at 
> http://eepatents.com/aal.html.
> 
> Please forward this to your discussion list, and thanks for your 
> comments thus far.
> 
> /--- Ed Suominen -------------------------------\
> |> Registered Patent Agent
> |> Independent Inventor of EE Technology
> |> Author, PRIVARIA Secure Networking Suite
> ||  Freely available at http://www.privaria.org
> |> Nothing above to be construed as legal advice
> ||  or the opinion of my firm or any client.
> \--- http://www.eepatents.com -----------------/
> 
> John Cowan wrote:
> 
> >Ed Suominen scripsit:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>So, I'm not sure that 
> >>derivative or combined works could be licensed under the GPL.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >They could not.  But your license seems to me clearly OSD-compliant
> >and Free-Software compliant as well; it is essentially equivalent
> >to the Old BSD license, except for the PGP signature.
> >
> >I would urge you, however, to request certification for a template
> >form of your license, similar to the BSD template, so that others
> >can use it by changing the author's name, professional identificaiton,
> >URL, and signature.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> 
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