Re: Fwd: Libranet (Debian derivate) requires $10 membership

2000-08-07 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Isn't this a huge violation of the GPL ?? It seems to be. Their decision only to distribute to people who agree to pay them $10 is, of course, perfectly fine, but they also say: You may freely download and use this distribution for any purpose with

export law again

2000-08-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
[Please CC me, I do not subscribe to -legal] What is this forum's opinion on a US developer compiling (without modifying) a package and uploading it to non-US? I've occasionally had to do this, since there is no PowerPC autobuilder outside the US right now. We can work around that in other

Re: Fwd: Libranet (Debian derivate) requires $10 membership

2000-08-07 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: You may freely download and use this distribution for any purpose with the exception that you may not sell or distribute this iso image without prior permission from Libra Computer Systems Ltd. ... However, this change may

Python licensing

2000-08-07 Thread Henry Jones
The following are brief quotes. Please read the complete versions of these articles on Python licensing as well as others by Tim Peters and Guido van Rossum in say comp.lang.python. A key point that must be said, CNRI has not to my knowledge made any public statements at all about Python