Re: Is open sourcing a good idea?
From: Noah Roberts (nroberts_at_dontemailme.com)
Date: 10/24/03
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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:39:24 -0700
Willem wrote:
> Protocol specifications can be every bit as much open source as code.
> I'm not at all sure how you can license a protocol, however...
You could probably patent it (I think that says more bad than good) or
possibly copyright. On the other hand anything like this would probably
just get into the way as the best you could do is something like the
java license - if you call it java it has to be java... I did consider
my options and decided to leave it at being annoyed. I put a clause in
the definition asking people that use it to be decent and left it at that.
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