Colloquium at Stanford
The Unfinished Revolution


Memorandum

Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 14:25:06 -0800

From:   Eric Armstrong
eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com
Reply-To: unrev-II@onelist.com

To:     unrev-II@onelist.com

Subject:   IP Issues & Licensing of OHS/DKR -- a Primer

Important mail. It's going to take a while to digest. One part caught my on the initial scan, though:

On Thu, 03 Feb 2000 02:54:40 -0500

Paul Fernhout wrote:

Basically, to use something contributed to the colloquium, in the absence of any other license, you need permission from either the contributor, Stanford, or the Bootstrap Institute. While this state of affairs is probably adequate for the durection of the colloquium, clearly it is too one-sided to persist for the long term. If major contributions are to be made to the OHS/DKR, then they will need to be made under a license that gives a much wider audience some sort of permission to use the contributions and redistribute them.

Couldn't agree me.

Glad you spotted that.

Any chance of boiling it all down to a set of recommendations, and keeping the original for background? (He asked, with eyes crossed...)

Sincerely,


Eric Armstrong
eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com