Re: Ocean and the search for a Music Framework

[Marco Scheurer]

On Mar 3, 2004, at 12:13 AM, Jeff Teunissen wrote:

> Marco Scheurer wrote:
>
> > On Mar 2, 2004, at 4:39 AM, Jeff Teunissen wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > > That is not at issue. What *is* at issue is whether or not the
> > > developers of the MusicKit have permission from the copyright holders
> > > (namely NeXT/Apple) to relicense said code under any license at all.
> >
> > I think I addressed this, and that it is clear enough: you have
> > permission if you obey to the MusicKit license. I don't understand how
> > the fact that some files are copyrighted by X rather than Y changes
> > anything.
>
> If the MusicKit developers have no explicit permission to place the 
> NeXT and
> Apple portions of the work under the MusicKit license, then the 
> license on
> the work as a whole is invalid.

Yes, but as we found out earlier that would be a license issue, not a 
copyright issue. There could perfectly be stuff copyrighted by NeXT or 
you in a package licensed by Stanford if it was contributed by NeXT or 
you.

But since some of the files in the distribution carry a different 
license agreement than the distribution as a whole, there is some 
ambiguity about how to treat them, and I agree that there is a problem.

marco