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You Can't Make This Stuff Up
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 11:23:23 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Jim Thompson <jim () netgate com> Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 05:30:58 -1000 To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: You Can't Make This Stuff Up For IP, if you wish http://www.clientservernews.com/ #Cherokee%20Indians%20Encircle%20Open%20Source%20Or%20How%20the%20GPL%20 Might%20Wind%20Up%20with%20Arrows%20Sticking%20in%20It Cherokee Indians Encircle Open Source Or How the GPL Might Wind Up with Arrows Sticking in It By Maureen O'Gara Jeff Merkey, who used to be chief scientist at Novell and wrote NetWare's SMP kernel, calls open source a "socialist movement that's destroying the software industry in America." He's also convinced open source misappropriates other people's IP. But he thinks he's figured out a way to make it a commercially viable capitalist tool by letting the Cherokee Nation run it. Merkey has rewritten NetWare and merged it with Linux to create a distribution called GaDuGi, a Cherokee word for the work crews that used to engage in what we might call community service for the good of the whole tribe. He says he has turned GaDuGi over to the Cherokee Nation, which will hold the copyright. GaDuGi will be distributed under a new Cherokee Nation Open Source License that is still being written, but reportedly differs from other open source licenses in recognizing trade secret rights in the underlying code. In anticipation of the move, there is also draft trade secret legislation pending before the Nation, due to be submitted for ratification by the Full Tribal Council on February 14, that would recognize individual as well as corporate trade secret rights. Otherwise it reportedly apes the Uniform Trade Secret Act in effect in the United States. People who want to redistribute GaDuGi commercially would be required to do so under the Cherokee Nation Open Source License. ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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