[tahoe-dev] Is TGPPL compatible with Apache license?

[Randall Mason]

This discussion addresses the use after the one year of the TGPPL.  Could
somebody confirm if this is true:

The period before the one year you can do anything with it, including
releasing complete closed source executables without source code that
requires that you eat horse meat while you use it.  Just, after that one
year, everything becomes GPL.  If your legal department is okay with a 1
year head start on the competition, then you are also good to go.

Randall Mason
clashthebunny at gmail.com


On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 6:00 AM, <kpneal at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 06:59:54PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > True.  <clinton> But probably "using" does not include using. </>
>
> You joke, but ...
>
> Law is essentially a different language. Lawyers from places in the English
> legal tradition (including here in the US) do not speak English. They speak
> this other "law" language where words mean what judges say they mean.
>
> This is why we have weirdness like "in camera" meaning "behind closed doors
> / out of sight". And the guy who climbed in my unlocked window the other
> year when I was at work was charged with law:"breaking and entering" even
> though he didn't english:break anything.
>
> Seriously, when licenses get this complicated the real answer to most
> questions is "ask a lawyer". Really.
> --
> Kevin P. Neal                                http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/
>            On the community of supercomputer fans:
> "But what we lack in size we make up for in eccentricity."
>   from Steve Gombosi, comp.sys.super, 31 Jul 2000 11:22:43 -0600
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