[Discussioni] la licenza di The Scratch

[Nicola A. Grossi]

Prima Marco aveva linkato a una sorta di sintesi della licenza.

Nella licenza si parla di "non-commercial purposes":
"non-commercial uses" può far pensare, erroneamente, a usi commerciali
da parte di terzi, ma riferire "non-commercial purposes" a terzi e non
al licenziatario mi pare assurdo.

E' la classica formula riferita nelle licenze d'uso al licenziatario.

Tanto più che i terzi sono espressamente citati dopo: "to permit persons
to whom the Software is furnished to do so".

bye
nag

----------------

Scratch Source Code License

Copyright (c) 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

All Rights Reserved.

Scratch was developed by Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media
Lab. See scratch.mit.edu.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy of the Scratch source code and accompanying documentation (the
"Software"), to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, or distribute the
Software or software derived from it ("Derivative Works") for
non-commercial purposes, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

  1. The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies of the Software and Derivative Works.

  2. The word "Scratch" shall not be used to refer to Derivative Works
except in the phrase "Based on Scratch from the MIT Media Lab" provided
that such phrase is not used to promote the Derivative Work or to imply
that MIT endorses you or the Derivative Work.

  3. Derivative Works shall not use the Scratch logo or the
(copyrighted) default Scratch sprite cat used in the official Scratch
software distributed in binary form by the Lifelong Kindergarten group
at the MIT Media Lab.

  4. Derivative Works shall not implement or enable any feature that
would allow uploading Scratch projects to any MIT Scratch website
(currently http://scratch.mit.edu).

  5. The source code for any Derivative Work based on this software
shall be made readily available to the public, ideally on a public web
site, free of charge.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.