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All those you mention do have licenses. OpenEXR - https://github.com/openexr/openexr/blob/develop/OpenEXR/LICENSE https://github.com/openexr/openexr/blob/devel

by ncannon 10y ago

All those you mention do have licenses. OpenEXR - https://github.com/openexr/openexr/blob/develop/OpenEXR/LICENSE https://github.com/openexr/openexr/blob/develop/OpenEXR/LICE... Ptex - http://ptex.us/documentation.html http://ptex.us/documentation.html Partio - https://github.com/wdas/partio/blob/master/src/doc/license.txt https://github.com/wdas/partio/blob/master/src/doc/license.t...

yazaddaruvala 10y ago
Cool, I'm glad, but still always be careful. Meanwhile, I don't really have access to a lawyer and I'm curious: 1. Should I trust a license which is not distributed with the source code (i.e. on the hopefully official website)? 2. Should I trust a license which is in a sub-directory? My initial assumption is that, only that sub-directory is licensed.
- dr_zoidberg 10y ago
  IANAL (but I work often with them) and, about (2)... It'd depend mostly on how it's presented. You could either argue along your reasoning (only sub-directories are licensed) or say "it's right there in the 'documents' subdirectory that comes with the project, it's in another directory only to have things better organized, so all the project is licensed". Probably you'd be able to find legal precedents for both arguments. Still, I agree with you that it's good to pay attention and understand the licenses (or get legal councel if you don't) if you're planning on doing anythnig with these projects (and others too).
viraptor 10y ago
I don't think it changes yazaddaruvala's point. What happens when ptex website goes away and disney lawyers decide there was no proof?
- ncannon 10y ago
  Poor choice of link on my part, the license is there in the Github repo: https://github.com/wdas/ptex/blob/master/src/doc/License.txt https://github.com/wdas/ptex/blob/master/src/doc/License.txt
- wangchow 10y ago
  Copy the license into your fork of the codebase.
  - viraptor 10y ago
    That's not how licenses work. You can't just apply what you assume is true. You'll get called out when you don't expect it.
- rtkwe 10y ago
  Luckily there are tools like the Wayback Machine from archive.org where you can retrieve the previous versions. There's also some existing cases where it's been ruled to be a legitimate source of evidence too so you're not arguing that from scratch.
  - viraptor 10y ago
    If you request removal from wayback machine (either robots.txt or direct) the history is gone too.

by ncannon 10y ago

yazaddaruvala 10y ago

Cool, I'm glad, but still always be careful. Meanwhile, I don't really have access to a lawyer and I'm curious: 1. Should I trust a license which is not distributed with the source code (i.e. on the hopefully official website)? 2. Should I trust a license which is in a sub-directory? My initial assumption is that, only that sub-directory is licensed.

dr_zoidberg 10y ago
IANAL (but I work often with them) and, about (2)... It'd depend mostly on how it's presented. You could either argue along your reasoning (only sub-directories are licensed) or say "it's right there in the 'documents' subdirectory that comes with the project, it's in another directory only to have things better organized, so all the project is licensed". Probably you'd be able to find legal precedents for both arguments. Still, I agree with you that it's good to pay attention and understand the licenses (or get legal councel if you don't) if you're planning on doing anythnig with these projects (and others too).

viraptor 10y ago

I don't think it changes yazaddaruvala's point. What happens when ptex website goes away and disney lawyers decide there was no proof?

ncannon 10y ago
Poor choice of link on my part, the license is there in the Github repo: https://github.com/wdas/ptex/blob/master/src/doc/License.txt https://github.com/wdas/ptex/blob/master/src/doc/License.txt
wangchow 10y ago
Copy the license into your fork of the codebase.
- viraptor 10y ago
  That's not how licenses work. You can't just apply what you assume is true. You'll get called out when you don't expect it.
rtkwe 10y ago
Luckily there are tools like the Wayback Machine from archive.org where you can retrieve the previous versions. There's also some existing cases where it's been ruled to be a legitimate source of evidence too so you're not arguing that from scratch.
- viraptor 10y ago
  If you request removal from wayback machine (either robots.txt or direct) the history is gone too.