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

[Dave Froble]

On 1/11/2019 5:07 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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

Some people are paranoid, but, that doesn't mean there isn't someone out 
to "get" them.

It's possible this is a rule that VSI decided they needed to implement.


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