Novell license

Then somebody would have just come along and made a term "free source" that would have meant the same thing, but no trademarks would be broken. License Score: 1. This is an interesting license. I don't see any immediate showstoppers which would prevent this from being a free software license. You mean patented Open source is right on about copyrights Sorry, that mistake took away at least three Funny scores :. The NPL : an unnecessary licence? However, code under this licence will not be compatible with GPLed code.

I wonder why, therefore, they are not using a GPL-compatible licence. About three classes of Open Source Licence needed Score: 4. Why do people keep coming up with their own variations on a theme? The licenses that are coming out are innovative they let people share ideas and contribute to existing technologies.

I'm glad that there are people like Bruce taking care of getting these licenses properly reviewed by peers so that when I get around to releasing my own killer app or start contributing to a project myself,I know that my cvscommit will stand on solid legal ground!

But that's not new. Do we really want to deal with 5 zillion licenses? Yet another parallel-universe-licence Score: 1. If the Distributions contain derivative works created by you, you must place a Notice in the source code of the derivative works stating that your derivative works are being made available under the NCL;. I'm beginning to wonder about the proliferation of licenses in a slightly new light: What if it's not merely a problem to have new licenses pop up that are more complex, more restrictive, more Gotcha-Source where users presume rights that some small clause shoved into five words restrict than the standard, rather simple to generally understand but well defined and heavily thought out GPL, LGPL, and BSD licenses?

What if it's a significant worry to have licenses that aren't complex enough? After all, we talk alot about the benefits of Open Source turning the copyright system inside out upon itself, protecting situations where others restrict further usage of code beyond what the original authors ever intended.

I like the Novell License for its simplicity and its lack of Gotchas for the user, but I have to wonder if there's not some small aspect of a ticking time bomb for Novell built into it? There's a reason for every single clause in the GPL.

The arguments are publically available and quite searchable. Is there an annotated GPL out there, incidentally?

The GPL closes loopholes. It almost feels like the only reasons for this Novell license to exist are to leave them open. There's a dark side to that. As far as I know, copyright law is set up such that one has no rights to the content beyond that which is explicitly granted.

It is not inconcievable that Novell could be forced or has individuals counting on being able to to go to court to try to reclose a loophole that never should have been there in the first place, making a whole bunch of noise about the inadequacy of Open Source in the process. It's a Media War, and all that. Now, I doubt this is what Novell is up to. They've been doing some pretty cool stuff for Linux. Windows 9x is another matter. But they're going down a dangerous road.

It's just not clear from the Novell license why, say, they didn't just go with BSD. And that's a problem. I think the worst enemy of free software is not software forking, but license splintering. As much as I think the BSDL is too lax, it is at least compatible with the GPL, so we, as open-source programmers, can share our code between projects. Novell VS. If so, that doesn't show very well for Novell's track record.

Why does everyone use the term Open Source now? May Free Software live on. And I think it would be great if everything were licensed under GPL, instead of the current situation. We ought to make it a clause in the dfsg..

Re:Interesting Score: 1. Re:trusting Novell The commercial licence that is proposed is very similar to the SCSL.

So can we term it as open source without the right to fork? So the third point must necessarily imply a license like the SCSL. Does anybody really care? Some confusion re: deriv. From the draft licence: 2. If the Distributions contain derivative works created by you, you must place a Notice in the source code of the derivative works stating that your derivative works are being made available under the NCL; Unquote.

What this seems to me to say is that 2. You're right, they haven't actually come out and said "open source," and instead say things like "similar to an 'open source' style of license. It's really too bad they are only willing to go halfway. I am a lawyer, but this isn't legal advice. If you need legal advice, see a laywer licensed in your jurisdiction.

Instead, the actions taken by the authors amend to purported license. With LyX, we made the qualifications explicit a couple of releases ago; KDE may be too far into flamewar for this to be possible. Doesn't the third licence sound like the SCSL? Three cheers for Bruce Perens Score: 2.

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