Well, I think we've tortured these guys enough. As Jamie
said, it's been rushed through, and I'm sure they'll clean up
the various typos and legal issues in future drafts.
A very liberal interpretation of downloads I and others
made is that IntaDev copyright is weakened by their pre-
announcement of mInt as "open source," and the lack of
any license terms in the initial release as "free", and that
we therefore own this stuff.
A more conservative interpretation is that IntaDev's (implicit)
copyright means that current license restrictions on mInt's use
apply retroactively to previous unlicensed releases. While
that's probably simplistic, and has its own legal minefield
potential, I lean in this direction, and I think it's only civilized
that everyone else do the same. ("'Civilized'? Moi?")
Certain points of this license seem pretty smart: it rankles
a bit at first, for example, that benchmarks of mInt can't
be published without IntaDev's permission, but if you look
at Games Benchmarkers Play (many of them dirty), it's
not surprising that it's come to this.
-michael turner
leap@gol.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick May" <nick@kyushu.com>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 9:53 PM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: mInt License - By popular demand!
>
> keitai-l@appelsiini.net writes:
> >However, I note that Section 3 says that the "Software is provided
> >gratuitously." It's nice to know that you and Michael agree on
> >something!
>
>
> section 3 could not make up its mind - I have "without charge" and
> "gratuitously" in there, but marked as "deleted".
>
> I noted this off list, but it seems not to be a priority to fix.
>
> I am grateful that it has been released "free" in whatever sense, but
> Intadev have been frighteningly naive about the whole license issue.
> That's potentially dangerous for them.
>
> nick
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