I am being asked as V-Ger of VSIDO to join the Open Invention Network... I am no lawyer and really do not know as much as I should even about Open Source licensing (just enough to know what to make VSIDO)
This is the OIN License Agreement (http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/joining-oin/oin-license-agreement/) that they would like me to sign before I join it...
I would appreciate any and all of you to go over it and give your impression of them and the orginization
Thank you!
Have you been to their website? Looked to me that this group- and therefore their agreement- is for individuals or groups that are actually developing/coding software. Since you are using existing software to spin a user friendly implementation of Sid,
I don't think it really applies to you. This agreement would be good for the developers of say SpaceFM.
The way I read it, you are more like a subsidiary as defined by the licencing agreement.
+1
They talk about patents, property and rights. It may apply to the tools you developed for visido and perhaps the concept of vsido as a whole. But the majority of the software was developed by other authors. I really don't know. I'm a law layman, but the way I see it, let's say Redhat as an example of a commercial distro, they ask for money for the support. They cannot sell OS licenses as far as I know. They are not proprietary of most part of the included software.
I agree with both of you ... what you both surmise is my own findings
Thanks, but I think I will pass on it