I would agree with Peter on this. I put the question to Doug at our last
meeting, and recall that he gave the same answer. (01)
At 04:49 PM 6/10/2005, Peter Yim wrote:
>John,
>
> > On the IPR side, which of the two options for this
> > would you suggest?
>
>[ppy] I think Doug's personal disposition and/or CHM (or
>CHM-SCC) policy should be the basis of the decision.
>
>I see the beauty of either one of these options (or that of the
>various flavors of open source licenses.) However, if I have to
>pick one right now, I'll choose 'public domain.'
>
>Cheers. =ppy
>--
>
>
>John Toole wrote Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:32:29 -0700:
> > Peter,
> >
> > On the IPR side, which of the two options for this would you suggest?
> > Presume the open source license??
> >
> > --John
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Yim [mailto:peter.yim@cim3.com]
> > Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 4:29 PM
> > To: nls-restore; John Toole
> > Subject: Re: [nls-restore] Great news on the Boeing front
> >
> > > [JT] It appears that they are assigning all the rights to
> > > us, then licensing back, and the language seems to give
> > > us what we need.
> >
> > [ppy] The is great news indeed (hope legal concurs)!
> >
> > Question: if that is the case, can we assume that CHM will put it
> > in the public domain? Or, would it put an open source license on
> > the IPR? If so, which open source license?
> >
> > (By the way, John, are you subscribed to the [nls-restore] list?)
> >
> > > [KG] ...updated the SCC site ...
> > > http://community.computerhistory.org/scc/
> >
> > [ppy] the site looks great, Kathe; didn't realize it existed and
> > so much is on there already.
> >
> > Just super!
> >
> > Cheers. =ppy
> > --
>
>
> > Gust, Kathe wrote Fri, 10 Jun 2005 15:57:42 -0700:
> >
> >>I have also updated the SCC site to reflect the possible success of a
> >>negotiation on this front. If the lawyers clear it, I will update
> >>further. I put it in the "Source Code" section.
> >>
> >>http://community.computerhistory.org/scc/
> >>
> >>Kathe
>
>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: nls-restore-bounces@chm.cim3.net
> >>[mailto:nls-restore-bounces@chm.cim3.net] On Behalf Of Philip Gust
> >>Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 3:54 PM
> >>To: nls-restore@chm.cim3.net
> >>Subject: [nls-restore] Great news on the Boeing front
> >>Importance: High
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>John Toole just copied me on a note that he sent to the CHM legal
> >>department concerning NLS/Augment. It is really great news, and puts
> >
> > us
> >
> >>another step closer.
> >>
> >>Rayleen, any chance we can have a "preliminary" version of the code
> >>packaged by the meeting on the 14th? This doesn't have to be the
> >
> > final
> >
> >>one
> >>we deliver to CHM, just one that our group can use internally to do an
> >
> >
> >>initial test install on another machine to work out issues that are
> >>bound
> >>to arise. Please let me know on this.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >>-------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>Legal Committee,
> >>
> >>The Software Collections Committee has undertaken a project to work
> >
> > with
> >
> >>Doug Engelbart's NLS system, and we needed rights to the source code.
> >>Lew Platt agreed to help, and I just received the note from them which
> >>would give us the necessary permissions.
> >>
> >>It appears that they are assigning all the rights to us, then
> >
> > licensing
> >
> >>back, and the language seems to give us what we need.
> >>
> >>Would you please give this a quick read and let me know if there is
> >>anything that we should ask to amend?? Would appreciate a reply NLT
> >>June 14th - the team is ready to move out on this.
> >>
> >>Thanks! Here's another good precedent on software rights issues.
> >>
> >>--John
> >>
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >>------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Philip Gust
> >>Nouveau Systems, Inc.
> >>
> >>phone: +1 650 961-7992
> >>fax: +1 520 843-7217
> >>
> >>
> >>mailto: gust@NouveauSystems.com
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