Re: Open source - Free software

[Alexander Terekhov]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" wrote:
> 
>    >    >    > Which has nothing to do with why the NASA Open Source
>    >    >    > Agreement (NOSG) is a non-free license.  I suggest you
>    >    >    > read section G:
>    >    >    >
>    >    >    > | G. Each Contributor represents that that its
>    >    >    > |    Modification is believed to be Contributor's
>    >    >    > |    original creation and does not violate any
>    >    >    > |    existing agreements, regulations, statutes or
>    >    >    > |    rules, and further that Contributor has sufficient
>    >    >    > |    rights to grant the rights conveyed by this
>    >    >    > |    Agreement.
>    >    >    >
>    >    >    > I.e. I am not allowed to take code that I have not
>    >    >    > created and combine it with a program which is licensed
>    >    >    > under the NOSG.
>    >    >
>    >    >    When you take third party code and combine that code with
>    >    >    NOSA'd code, it is neither modification nor Modification,
>    >    >    [...]
>    >    >
>    >    > The end product is a modification, yes.
>    > ...
>    >    > The creation that is added
>    >
>    >    Is just separate computer program (literary) work (aka
>    >    software).
>    >
>    > A seperate program which is not the "Contributor's original
>    > creation".
> 
>    It's separate software from the Subject Software.
> 
> Section G does not speak of `Subject Software'.
> 
> | G. Each Contributor represents that that its Modification is
> |    believed to be Contributor's original creation and does not
> |    violate any existing agreements, regulations, statutes or rules,
> |    and further that Contributor has sufficient rights to grant the
> |    rights conveyed by this Agreement.
> 
>    >    Program code A + program code B modifies neither program code
>    >    A nor program code B.
>    >
>    > But program A or B is not the "Contributor's original creation".
> 
>    And?
> 
> ... see section G.  One can only make a modification if it is the
> "Contributor's original creation".

Uh moron. 

Read all definitions. (First take some medicine.) Then try to grok that  
"separate software from the Subject Software" + "the Subject Software"
results in "Larger Work", not "Modification". 

regards,
alexander.