Opened 13 years ago
Last modified 12 years ago
#106 new task
Need to find a working and good license for Standards
Reported by: | ph3-der-loewe | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | blocker | Milestone: | CAPS support |
Component: | Standards | Version: | |
Keywords: | license | Cc: | shogsbro, ph3-der-loewe, themaister, the-me, AniX72 |
Architecture: | Compiler: | ||
Difficulty: | hard | Kernel: | |
Operating System: | Parent Tickets: | ||
Patch attached: | no | Protocol: | |
Sound driver: | Topic: | Legal |
Description
We need to find a working and good license for the standard.
The license needs to have those key features:
- It must allow copies, both commercial and non-commercial
- It must allow people to implement the described protocol, process, implementation, work(flow), data, ... freely. Both for commercial and non-commercial implementations.
- It must allow changes and publishing changes (but see bellow!)
- It must match common requirements like Debian's DFSG and OSI requirements so it can be freely distributed
- It must require to list authors
- It must not require the license to be inlined into the document itself.
- It must require changed versions to not claim to be the original: The Vendor ID MUST NOT be used by someone else than the person or company it was assigned to. If the vendor itself publishes a updated version the version number MUST be changed.
- It must require that all depends of the document needed to be implemented or used MUST NOT be of stricter restriction.
There should be a flavor which allows depends on stricter restricted standards.
Maybe there are some points I forgot, please comment!
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comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by ph3-der-loewe
- Priority changed from medium to blocker
comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by the-me
comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by ph3-der-loewe
- Difficulty set to hard
- Topic set to Legal
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LGPL-2+ may be the best license for it, but you have got some extra requirements, which are non-free in Debian and some more distributions:
# It must require changed versions to not claim to be the original: The Vendor ID MUST NOT be used by someone else than the person or company it was assigned to. If the vendor itself publishes a updated version the version number MUST be changed.
That is nearly the same as Mozilla has done, what was the reason why it gets non-free and so we forked the mozilla applications.
# It must require that all depends of the document needed to be implemented or used MUST NOT be of stricter restriction.
Could you give an example?