[Nix-dev] Re: Nix wiki - license?

[Marc Weber]

Hi Michael,

Do you just know whether there are the existing licenses we can copy?
Because I'm not a lawyer. I can't confirm anything :-(

Eg if you want to commit to OpenOffice you must even sign an agreement:
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/guidelines.html#Sources
-> http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/sca.pdf

quote:
  you hereby assign to us joint ownership, and to the extent that such
  assignment is or becomes invalid, ineffective or unenforceable, you
  hereby grant to us a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide,
  no-charge, royalty-free, unrestricted license to exercise all rights
  under those copyrights. This includes, at our option, the right to
  sublicense these same rights to third parties through multiple levels of
  sublicensees or other licensing arrangements;

I think this is the most important part that both sides become owners
such they may do whatever they want.

The license used for OpenOffice is LPGL.

Does this come close to what you have in mind?

Marc Weber

Excerpts from Michael Raskin's message of Fri Dec 04 20:18:18 +0100 2009:
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> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > The license explicitly grants licensees the right to “sublicense”.  It’s
> > the X11 license and it can, for instance, be “cast” to a copyleft
> > license such as the GPL [0].
> 
> We may theoretically need an X11-incompatible license in the future
> (although I agree, it is hard to imagine).. And Nix is LGPL as I
> understand. My point is that we need to check everything and agree on a
> procedure that allows us to do something even if some of us become
> unavailable for discussion.