[dundee] Questions about a "Source Code License Agreement"

[Dan Bolser]

2009/8/4 gordon dunlop <astrozubenel at googlemail.com>:
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>
> 2009/8/4 Dan Bolser <dan.bolser at gmail.com>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been sent a "Source Code License Agreement"
>
> First of all find out the type of license it is issued under as there are
> many types with differing conditions:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SoftwareLicenses

In particular I read:

    There is no way we could list all the known non-free software
licenses here; after all, every proprietary software company has its
own.


and:

    Of course, we urge you to avoid using non-free software licenses,
and to avoid non-free software in general.


but of course none of that helps.

The license has gone to a lawyer, but they will either say 'OK' or 'no
way', according to the rules and regulations governing my employment
here. However, what I want to get is some general impression of how
restrictive you think the license is, and weather you think I should
not be signing it on principle. Also, given that the company in
question has no current aspiration to market their software
commercially (allegedly), I'd like to know if I could reasonably ask
them to GPL or dual license the code, for example. I appreciate it may
be asking a lot, but I just figured somebody on the list would have an
eye for these things.

Thanks for the above pointers,

Dan.


> Gordon
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dan.
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