[Ros-talk] License (was Re: My vision of Ros)

[Shasckaw]

Simon Strandgaard wrote:

>On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 00:59, Shasckaw wrote:
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>>Simon Strandgaard wrote:
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>>Glups.
>>My mother tongue is not english either, it is french (I live in belgium)
>>And I'm not lawyer at all.
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>I live in Denmark. I have gotten far better to English the last year,
>because we now have the second exchange student from the US living at
>our house. It educational, but far from lawyer language ;-)
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;-)

Because of that, I'm often affraid to be rude accidently, so if 
sometimes, someone here feel insulted by me, it is probably a 
misunderstanding. I also often look in my french-english english-french 
dictionnary to use the words that fit most.

>>And determining a license scheme is a truly hard thing, we must have a 
>>really clear idea of the organisation of Ros.
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>>What I know about licenses tell me that their use is easy when you just 
>>use one license with no third party code with different license, and 
>>their use is headache when you want to use multiple licensing or when 
>>you want to keep the copyright. And you can rapidly use multiple 
>>licensing just when using third party code.
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>Licenses worries me even more now.
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It is certainly not trivial. But if we are cautious with that, it won't 
be a major problem. I hope.

>>How can we know how to do?
>>Well, what about asking FSF or OSI about the compatibility of Ruby 
>>license with GPL and others?
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>We can ask on the comp.lang.ruby newsgroup. I have seen some talking
>about license issues before.
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>Do you, or should I ask ?
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You should probably for three reasons:
1) you have subscribed to comp.lang.ruby
2) you're the leader of ROS project
3) I haven't subscribed to comp.lang.ruby, and I don't think I'll do 
(until I have a good reason to do so). I've already subscribed to so 
many mailing lists... (and I have about 3000 mails not read, hum... and 
they aren't short ones and 2000 of them concerns scientific topics, arg!)
4) I'm a sometimes a little agoraphobic and... well, that's a forth 
reason that! :->

>I have added a license section to the 'BookOfIdeas' document. Feel free
>to write whatever you want. It just have to be relatively ok.
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Ok, I'll see what I can do.

Lio