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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/11/2019 8:40 AM, John Reagan wrote:
> On Thursday, January 10, 2019 at 6:31:53 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 1/10/2019 5:00 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>   > 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
> 
> ^^ this ^^
> 
> Even if I get some email from somebody claiming to be you that grants
> me rights, that is not sufficient.  Your estate can easily dispute
> such an unproven email and file a civil suit that could go on
> forever.

I am not sure that I can follow you.

You get a usenet post or an email from "me" with some code
and an Apache 2.0 license slapped on it.

You have received the code under Apache 2.0 license.

I don't see the question whether it is really me or
someone faking my email address changing anything.

As long as the code and the license is a bundle
from the same person then it should not matter who
that person is (in the context of the open source
license).

Arne