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From: FRIGN <dev@frign.de>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: musl licensing
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 15:07:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160316150723.1634e3a30871c3e4fadc27de@frign.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160316134908.GB13856@example.net>

On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 14:49:08 +0100
u-uy74@aetey.se wrote:

Hey Rune,

> Copyright law is a [legacy originating from the Britain's] censuring
> framework, which happens to be applied to software for no technical reason
> (does a copyright notice influence the functioning of the program?) but
> for various political ones.

thanks for the history lesson. It still doesn't change the fact that
this topic needs to be addressed. Copyright law is not going to change
in the forseeable future, and I think the best that can happen to musl
is when it's used broadly (which implies broad testing and more chances
of patches flowing in).
I understand the caution by the companies when licensing isn't clear.
Given public domain practically implies "all rights reserved", there's
nothing stopping a "malicious" developer from making claims after
deployment. The term "public domain" is not very clear after all.

I also want to see musl in widespread use, and even if I probably
can't expect a relicensing to ISC or something, one can still expect
the sections which are "public domain" to be licensed under BSD-0
or ISC or MIT to clear up the licensing situation.

The CLA comment by Petr was probably a misunderstanding and I assume
he probably meant the case in which a license change won't happen
upstream, but as an exception for Google.

Cheers

FRIGN

-- 
FRIGN <dev@frign.de>


  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-16 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-15 21:59 Petr Hosek
2016-03-15 22:17 ` croco
2016-03-16 16:32   ` Alexander Cherepanov
2016-03-16 22:50     ` Petr Hosek
2016-03-16 22:55       ` Josiah Worcester
2016-03-16 23:46       ` Rich Felker
2016-03-17  2:06         ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-17  3:04           ` Rich Felker
2016-03-17  8:17           ` u-uy74
2016-03-17 15:14             ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-17 15:28               ` FRIGN
2016-03-17 15:49                 ` Hugues Bruant
2016-03-17 15:57                   ` Rich Felker
2016-03-17 16:01               ` Rich Felker
2016-03-17 23:32                 ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-18  4:21                   ` Rich Felker
2016-03-18  4:47                     ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-18 18:07                       ` Rich Felker
2016-03-18 18:16                     ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-18 19:12                       ` Rich Felker
2016-03-18 19:47                         ` George Kulakowski
2016-03-19  4:35                           ` Rich Felker
2016-03-21 22:46                             ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-23  2:32                               ` Rich Felker
2016-03-23 20:35                                 ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-23 22:53                                   ` Rob Landley
2016-03-29 17:18                                     ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-29 17:21                                   ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-29 20:03                                     ` Rich Felker
2016-03-29 20:21                                       ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-30  6:56                                     ` u-uy74
2016-03-30 14:11                                       ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-30 14:43                                         ` u-uy74
2016-03-18  8:31               ` u-uy74
2016-03-17  1:26       ` Alexander Cherepanov
2016-03-17  2:20         ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-15 22:20 ` Kurt H Maier
2016-03-15 22:20 ` Josiah Worcester
2016-03-15 22:41 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-15 22:49   ` Shiz
2016-03-16  4:54   ` Isaac Dunham
2016-03-16  8:00   ` u-uy74
2016-03-16 10:31   ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-03-16 10:55     ` FRIGN
2016-03-16 12:34       ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-03-16 12:46         ` Anthony J. Bentley
2016-03-16 13:49           ` u-uy74
2016-03-16 14:07             ` FRIGN [this message]
2016-03-16 14:01         ` FRIGN
2016-03-16 14:47           ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-03-16 10:22 ` FRIGN
2016-03-16 20:13 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-16 20:19   ` FRIGN
2016-03-16 20:34     ` Rich Felker
2016-03-16 21:11       ` Jens Gustedt
2016-03-16 21:15       ` FRIGN
2016-03-16 21:35         ` Rich Felker
2016-03-16 21:50           ` FRIGN
2016-03-16 21:34       ` John Levine
2016-03-16 21:38       ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-17  2:01       ` Ed Maste
2016-03-17  3:19         ` Rich Felker
2016-03-17 18:49           ` Ed Maste
2016-03-17 19:16             ` Rich Felker
2016-03-17 21:16               ` Wink Saville
2016-03-17 21:25                 ` Petr Hosek
2016-03-17 22:56                   ` Ruediger Meier
2016-03-17 23:07                     ` Anthony J. Bentley
2016-03-17 23:19                       ` Kurt H Maier
2016-03-17 23:31                         ` Anthony J. Bentley
2016-03-17 23:46                           ` Ruediger Meier
2016-03-18  3:30                           ` Kurt H Maier
2016-03-18  3:41                             ` Rich Felker
2016-03-18  3:55                               ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-17 21:42               ` Ed Maste
2016-03-17 23:37               ` Luca Barbato
2016-03-18  8:01             ` u-uy74
2016-03-18 12:35 ` chromium with musl libc (was: [musl] musl licensing) Natanael Copa

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