Licensing terms

Submitted by brough on Fri, 2006-09-08 06:30.
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Someone needs to resolve conflicts in your licensing terms. You mention the "GPL" license on the project home page, the "BSD" license appears within the source files (at least the first few files I examined) but I had to "agree" to a set of "terms and conditions" which were NOT open source in the sense of GPL or BSD before I could examine the source code.

Just exactly what did you intend?

If this is really open source, I'm interested. If it's just a marketing scam, I suggest you take the site down right now, as you are likely to get some very negative press!

Thanks,
- rbt

Brough Turner
CTO
NMS Communications
rbt@nmss.com
http://blogs/nmss.com/communications/

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Licensing terms
Submitted by honglu on Fri, 2006-09-08 07:57.

Brough,

Thanks for the feedback.

Is the terms page your refer this one, http://www.openclovis.org/terms? On this page, it clearly states that all OpenClovis software is released under GPL.

Regarding BSD and GPL, the reason we have the BSD license header in some files is because these files are from 3rd party source code which was released under BSD. To be compliant with the BSD license, any product using them has to keep the headers as is. All OpenClovis authored files are released under GPL 2.0 as stated. I hope this clears your questions.

Hong

Licensing terms
Submitted by brough on Fri, 2006-09-08 08:14.

Indeed, the General Use Restrictions at http://www.openclovis.org/terms were what I found off-putting. I understand the BSD/GPL issue.

If your lawyer is not familiar with open-source projects and wants to put the site's images and html under some sort of copyright, you might suggest he look at a Creative Commons License.

Thanks,
Brough

Licensing terms
Submitted by honglu on Fri, 2006-09-08 08:20.

Sure, is there any specific language in the term you are referring to? I'll take your input back to our lawyer who is among the top law firm specialized in open source legals. Thanks again!