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From: Hugues Bruant <hugues@aerofs.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: musl licensing
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 08:49:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+bHwppbAyN8p5an3qqNEKuhNeAAvBfPnfSLzUsjf9GmEdrHDg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160317162848.0e2a44231ee8a836129370d4@frign.de>

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>
> 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.
>
Or go the SQLite way and charge a fee to get an explicit license for
companies that are not comfortable with Public Domain

http://sqlite.org/copyright.html

That's probably much stronger than the musl community would be comfortable
with and also too late as it would require all past contributors to
disclaim copyright, not just Rich but it's worth noting that public domain
ideology is not incompatible with corporate use.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-17 15:49 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 [this message]
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
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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