[Info-vax] Most popular application programming languages on VMS ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/10/2019 5:00 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 1/10/2019 4:39 PM, John Reagan wrote:
>> I was discussing with Rob that the documentation for that DLM feature
>> And back to the question about "code donations", etc., such things
>> get really complicated with licenses, ownership, patent protection,
>> etc.  For example, if you send me something with a GPL license, I'll
>> delete it.
> 
> Understood.
> 
>>  If you send me something, with copyright to you, I'll
>> delete it.
> 
> Even if I grant you full and unfettered use of the code, including the 
> right to remove copyright?
 >
 >> If you send me something with no copyright, I'll delete
 >> it.
 >
 > Now, that one I just don't understand.  How about if I state that the
 > code is a donation to VSI with no strings attached?  How about if I sell
 > you the code for $1 ?  Or one cent?

Copyright does not disappear just because the
copyright notice get removed.

You need to explicit grant him rights.

And if you pick your own  wording then it will be bad because
he will need to pay a lawyer big bucks to review it.

If you use a recognized permissive open source license: Apache,
BSD, MIT etc. then everybody should be happy.

Arne