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Hello Theora developers, I'm doing some cursory research into Theora's IP status in preparation for asking Apple to reconsider the possibility of shipping an implementation. I have a few questions and I'm hoping knowledgeable people can help out. 1) What are the terms of any patent licenses or disclaimers, and do they have field of use restrictions or limitations on code for

...e been asking. ?"Have you checked with legal counsel about your package licensing strategy?" and the answer was "Of course we have."..."Who are your lawyers?" was my next question and the answer was "Well, we asked the Software Freedom Law Center?." ?What the SFLC essentially said was that packages designed to run through the R interpreter don't necessarily have to be licensed under the GPL. Obviously, changes to Core R do need to be under GPL. and REvolution has always done that. The R community has a long-standing practice of allowing packages to be d...

Hi Andrey, 2016-01-23 4:02 GMT+01:00 Andrey Gursky <andrey.gursky at e-mail.ua>: ... > If they don't want to bother with just discussing, why would they take a > big effort to claim? And your proposition for LGPL is not very > different in opposite to BSD or public domain. Yes, I agree. The risk of having a future lawsuit against my project would be pretty small if I

Hi all, We have downloaded and made modification to LLVM version 2.7 -- we added new files and modified some existing files. We would like to upload the entire source to GitHub (both our new/modified files as well as the rest of the LLVM files). What would be the best way (legal w.r.t to LLVM license, which is NCSA) to publish the entire source ? Can we simply distribute the entire source under

...on't object to you doing that on GPL'd work that I wrote. I would consider the first two to be a violation. I think you have a couple of cheap options to get some clarity: - mail the other key authors listed above explaining what you're doing and ask if they object - mail the FSF or SFLC as custodians of the L/GPL > I think that the best thing would be if rsync would be split into a > library part (LGPL) and application part (GPL). This could make the > rsync protocol even more used. > > But again, it could be quite some substantial work, both coding (?) > but a...

On 29 October 2015 at 10:25, Jonas Maebe via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Regarding the previously voiced concerns of incompatibilities between the > Apache and GPLv2 license, I'd like to add one more thing. > > I work on a, at this time mostly LLVM-unrelated [1], "GPLv2 or later" > licensed compiler: the Free Pascal Compiler. Some