[wsfii-discuss] batman license

Alexander Morlang alx at dd19.de
Sun Nov 4 03:23:48 UTC 2007


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Rob Dyke schrieb:
> Different licenses for different parts of the puzzle? I see a
> conflict here. Commercial actors may have the tools (code) but not
> the knowledge (documentation) necessary to make them work. Perhaps
> releasing the code as text (under CC by-na-ca) rather than as code
> (under GPL) would bring about harmony of intention and the
> non-commercial restriction desired. Else GPL the documentation like
> the code and be done with it.

they have the knowledge but they can't sell it. reading it is still
permitted, or am i wrong here?

> 
> -- Rob Dyke

Alex
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Axel Neumann"
> <axel at open-mesh.net> To: "Discuss list on the World Summit on Free
> Information Infrastructure" <wsfii-discuss at lists.okfn.org> Sent:
> Friday, November 2, 2007 10:53:46 AM (GMT) Europe/London Subject: Re:
> [wsfii-discuss] batman license (Was: funding supernodes)
> 
> 
> All documents/code on open-mesh.net are licensed individually and
> define this with its header of footer. Generally, most of the source
> code (BATMAN) is licensed under GPL, so it allows commercial usage...
>  Most of the documents as well as the content of the web-pages is
> licensed under CC by-nc-sa. This license does not allow commercial
> usage.
> 
> ciao, axel
> 
> 
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