[IGDA_indies] GPL/LGPL, etc

[Thomas H. Buscaglia]

Jason

Sounds like a good idea...but probably isn't.  A style guide put together 
by non-professionals could end up promulgating a lot of bad advice.  And 
unlike publisher/developer agreements or IP, I don't know of any attorneys 
with any real world experience with GLP/LGPL (or even to more commercially 
familiar EULA for that matter).

Licensing is not a matter of "style" but of detail drafting and analysis of 
the resulting legal impact and consequences of every material term.  I am 
hesitant to even consider an undertaking of this nature  because it could 
easily lend itself to a great deal of speculation and possibly, unlike the 
numerous other white papers I have contributed in the past, bad advice.  Or 
in the alternative, some general BS without any real value.  These are very 
tough issues and I doubt they would lend themselves to a general 
informational sort of white paper...but then I have been wrong before.

At best - we could talk around the issues involved.  But this is not a very 
satisfactory result.

I will ponder this matter further...

Tom B <-- pondering


At 03:18 PM 8/31/2004, you wrote:
>All this discussion on GPL/etc makes me think that the SIG should put 
>together a "licensing for indie developers" style guide.
>
>Could be a valuable resource!
>
>Jason
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