From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/9655 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: FRIGN Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: musl licensing Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 16:28:48 +0100 Message-ID: <20160317162848.0e2a44231ee8a836129370d4@frign.de> References: <20160315221757.GA3522@openwall.com> <56E98AB1.9030309@openwall.com> <20160316234656.GQ9349@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20160317081748.GF13856@example.net> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1458228545 19723 80.91.229.3 (17 Mar 2016 15:29:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:29:05 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-9668-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Thu Mar 17 16:29:05 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1agZrD-0003gz-PQ for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 16:29:03 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 3093 invoked by uid 550); 17 Mar 2016 15:29:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Original-Received: (qmail 2042 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2016 15:29:00 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1458228529; l=3009; s=domk; d=frign.de; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:Mime-Version:References: In-Reply-To:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=DCIvV84q3/B53yCjTM73dTN48I8yehljR+cgOWZO6Pc=; b=kZoYSrzLKnPp8/oMIRWPUx/Nd/pB/wI5V0+L59rojVoVg29lTMjROTk7vpbPfmfTfRW IiJIMOBuUeFHrxYwYBnMma8Wyec0qoqmkOJrbQQvKTciWOu4IwawPaMaJRaBOTUFfQWNi rSRvRIUzuLcWltToz+1ObDiS5KWkdHnpUis= X-RZG-AUTH: :KGkSVUa6cvg6QHOypuT/F//XhghIqIrrftbI6xdAzo0GYm6y2943wg== X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.2 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:9655 Archived-At: On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 08:14:04 -0700 Christopher Lane wrote: Hey Christopher, > This isn't about shoveling risk from Google to musl. We want musl to be a > clear and unambiguously licensable product so we can use it. Incidentally, > figuring out the licensing stuff here is a large distraction for our team > (and we knew it would be), but we're willing to put in the time and effort > because we think it's beneficial for the open source community overall, and > because it's ethically correct. This isn't just CYA, and it's not some > nefarious scheme.. > If it comes down to it, it might be possible for us to avoid using any of > the public domain parts of musl - maybe in a fashion similar to what bionic > did, I don't know yet. If that's good enough for our lawyers, it'll get > our team unblocked and that's good enough I guess. Though, I'd prefer we > solve this without such a workaround so others can benefit. I totally understand what you mean. Even for my open source works, I'm very careful when it comes to public domain. I consider public domain problematic because the legal definition is unclear. Every developer here who supports his points with ideological arguments is in my opinion stubborn and should get a reality check, and it's a mistery for me why you literally want to make it difficult for Google and other people to use your software by not just licensing your public domain stuff as BSD-0 for reasons that are beyond insanity. Only because you stamp "public domain" on something doesn't make it not your intellectual property. That's the thing people, every work of art has an owner, it's your responsibility to mark work you want to share with everyone and don't want credit in a way it is legally sound. Google cannot argue with ideology in front of courts, so can't you and me neither in case some license hippie decided to revoke his public domain license for some fucked up reason. Now, if you just wrote down codetables and you think it's not copyrightable and by that means you can just declare it to be public domain, it won't work that way either. In the end, only a court can decide that and up until this point you still have to release this stuff just like anything else that is your intellectual property. And don't get me wrong, I'm probably one of the biggest enemies of the term "intellectual property" in the open source context; for companies it's another matter, however, we have to play by the rules of the system and be clear about what we mean. For lawyers, calling something "public domain" doesn't mean much to them. So endure the pain, license it under BSD-0, so Google's lawyers and future peoples' lawyers are happy and we actually get shit done. This entire discussion about public domain ideology has been going on for too fucking long and is a waste of fucking time, and the solutions have been laid out multiple times. Cheers FRIGN -- FRIGN