For Approval: Open-Realty License

[Ryan Bonham]

Rod,

My apologies for admitting that in my approval request, been working to 
many hours.. I can change that to read. "If you use Open-Realty in an 
application you redistribute, the complete source code for your 
application must be available and freely redistributable under an 
approved OSI license." or if you have a suggestion on how to word that I 
am all ears, the basic goal was to make sure that any applications built 
using our source are then released under and open-source license and 
that the include the html comments..

I also have a question, if we dual license the application with one 
license allowing removal of the html comment and charge for this license 
but still require that the code remain open-source etc, will this effect 
OSI approval of the license?

Thanks

Ryan Bonham
Transparent Technologies
ryan at transparent-tech.com

Phone: (888) 418-8900
Help Desk: http://www.transparent-tech.com/esupport/



Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M. wrote:

> I have one question.   On your website at: 
> http://www.open-realty.org/license_info.html you state that your license:
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> "...permits you to use the software at no charge under two conditions.
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> 1.You have to leave the html comment that reads "<!--Open-Realty is 
> distributed by Transparent Technologies and is Licensed under the 
> Open-Realty License. See http://www.open-realty.org/oslicense.html for 
> more information.-->”" intact.
>
> 2. If you use Open-Realty in an application you redistribute, the 
> complete source code for your application must be available and freely 
> redistributable under reasonable conditions."
>
> The second condition is not only vague, but it does not actually 
> appear in the license you posted. Is this an additional requirement? 
> What does "reasonable conditions" mean?
>
> -Rod Dixon
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Bonham" 
> <ryan at transparent-tech.com>
> To: <license-discuss at opensource.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 6:56 PM
> Subject: For Approval: Open-Realty License
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to submit our open source projects license for approval. 
>> The Open-Realty license is similar to the new BSD license. It 
>> additionally requires that web pages built using our open source 
>> project leave the following html comment "<!--Open-Realty is 
>> distributed by Transparent Technologies and is Licensed under the 
>> Open-Realty License. See http://www.open-realty.org/oslicense.html 
>> for more information.-->". Our software can be used in conjunction 
>> with other open source products, as long as the html comment 
>> mentioned previously is present on all pages that use our projects 
>> source code.
>>
>>
>> ----------- Start Open-Relaty License -------------
>>
>> Copyright (c) 2003-2005
>> Transparent Technologies. All rights reserved.
>>
>> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 
>> modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 
>> are met:
>>
>> 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 
>> notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
>> 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 
>> notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 
>> documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
>> 3. Neither the name of the Transparent Technologies nor the names of 
>> its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived 
>> from this software without specific prior written permission.
>> 4. All websites using Open-Realty must leave the html comment that 
>> reads “<!--Open-Realty is distributed by Transparent Technologies and 
>> is licensed under the Open-Realty License. See 
>> http://www.open-realty.org/oslicense.html for more information.-->” 
>> intact.
>>
>> THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY TRANSPARENT TECHNOLOGIES AND ITS 
>> CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, 
>> INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 
>> MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 
>> IN NO EVENT SHALL TRANSPARENT TECHNOLOGIES OR ITS CONTRIBUTORS BE 
>> LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 
>> CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 
>> SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR 
>> BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, 
>> WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE 
>> OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, 
>> EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
>>
>>
>> ----------- End Open-Relaty License -------------
>>
>> -- 
>> Ryan Bonham
>> Transparent Technologies
>> ryan at transparent-tech.com
>>
>>
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