[cc-community] by-nd for software

Burobjorn burobjorn at gmail.com
Sun Oct 21 11:01:49 EDT 2007


Actually, some Microsoft licenses are now open-source licenses (as in 
approved by OSI).

See this news items by OSI:
http://opensource.org/node/207

All the best,

grtz
BjornW


Nathan Yergler wrote:
> On 10/21/07, NikNot <niknot at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/21/07, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:
>>> Have you looked at the GNU LGPL?  It seems to be a good fit for you:
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License
>>>
>>> It has the advantage of being designed for software, unlike the CC license
>>> suite.
>> Yes, GNU (and BSD) would be my logical choices; however I have a problem
>> with both in that I need to prevent the modifications and derivatives - this is
>> the main reason I'm looking for the alternatives.
> 
> As Asheesh pointed out, the CC licenses aren't great for software.
> Maybe one of the Microsoft or Sun "Community" or "Reference" licenses
> (ie, http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/licensingbasics/referencelicense.mspx)?
>  They aren't open source licenses (as defined/approved by OSI), but it
> doesn't sound like that's a requirement in this situation.
> 
> Nathan
> 
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