The Readme for VCG says:
LICENSE CONDITIONS
Copyright (C) 1993--1995 by Iris Lemke, Georg Sander, and
the Compare Consortium
This work is supported by the ESPRIT project 5399 Compare.
We thank the Compare Consortium for the permission to
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:31:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Readme for VCG says:
[...]
We thank the Compare Consortium for the permission to distribute
this software and documentation freely. You can redistribute
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
JL == Jeff Licquia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WL == Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JL There's a new draft floating around. It also has
JL problems, but is closer to what we need, and I think the
JL problems can be worked out. I owe the LaTeX people an
JL analysis, but have allowed
After 5 months in Incoming, mindterm was rejected from the US archive
due to possible license incompatabilities. The situation is pretty
unclear so I'd appreciate advice.
Mindterm is a ssh client implemented wholly in java. As a whole it is
licensed under the GPL (later versions were taken
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 20:32, Aaron Swartz wrote:
I think it's clear that graphics fonts and documentation are not
software.
I think it's clear you don't work with fonts or documentation.
Type1 and TrueType fonts are both Turing-complete language.
Non-bitmapped fonts are described as a program
On Tuesday 27 August 2002 12:17, Joey Hess wrote:
So, they took the DES code from the ssh 1.2.26 source code (note that
that version of ssh was non-free as a whole; openbsd chose an earlier
version to fork). They rewrote it in java, but it is still presumably a
derivative work.
I think
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 03:17:19PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
After 5 months in Incoming, mindterm was rejected from the US archive
due to possible license incompatabilities. The situation is pretty
unclear so I'd appreciate advice.
[...]
ssh-1.2.12
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/08/27/1626241.shtml
New MP3 License Terms Demand $0.75 Per Decoder
*Posted by chrisd[1] on Tuesday August 27, @03:27PM*
*from the good-thing-ogg-is-up-to-speed dept.*
Götz[2] writes The licensing terms of Thomson and the Fraunhofer
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 02:52:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah. I don't think it is distributable, and therefore not DFSG-free.
While the copyright holder can certainly distribute obfuscated source
and no one can tell him not to, the GNU GPL by which the licensees
(i.e., we, and
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One file, DES.java, has the following comment:
/**
*
* Copyright (c) 1998,99 by Mindbright Technology AB, Stockholm, Sweden.
* www.mindbright.se, [EMAIL
Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Type1 and TrueType fonts are both Turing-complete language.
[...]
PDF and PS documentation formats are Turing-complete languages,
Hmmm... I'm pretty sure neither PDF nor Type 1 are Turing-complete.
PDF was designed as sort of a predigested version of PS,
3. http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html
I wonder whether it's time to cease all mp3 players from Debian as well.
FWIW, this licensing change occurred in mid-2001.
Walter Landry wrote:
What is the license on the java modifications by Mindbright? The
snippet above doesn't make it clear, but the usual custom is to place
modifications under the same license as the original. In which case
mindterm is still undistributable :(
What java modifications? They
Branden Robinson wrote:
I wonder if it possible to reconstruct the existing mindterm code base
from all the known DFSG-free code using a recipe. This recipe could
then be handed to the FTP admins.
Only if you have an automatic C to java translator program..
An example closer to home for you
On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 02:19 PM, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
I think it's clear that graphics fonts and documentation are not
software.
I think it's clear you don't work with fonts or documentation.
I work with both. I understand these complexities but I didn't really
want to go into
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 07:32:36PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Branden Robinson wrote:
I wonder if it possible to reconstruct the existing mindterm code base
from all the known DFSG-free code using a recipe. This recipe could
then be handed to the FTP admins.
Only if you have an automatic C
Please don't Cc me on list mail.
On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 18:34, Aaron Swartz wrote:
On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 02:19 PM, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
I think it's clear that graphics fonts and documentation are not
software.
I think it's clear you don't work with fonts or documentation.
I
Steve Langasek wrote:
This is what puzzled me about this question. If the old code was C and
the new code is entirely Java, are there enough recognizable portions of
the old code left to be able to call mindterm a derivative work of
libdes? Algorithms are not copyrightable, and there are
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:59:41PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
I wonder whether it's time to cease all mp3 players from Debian as well.
Heh, I just noticed this on the licensing page:
Note: This license does not cover the right to distribute, broadcast
and/or stream mp3 / mp3PRO encoded
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Walter Landry wrote:
What is the license on the java modifications by Mindbright? The
snippet above doesn't make it clear, but the usual custom is to place
modifications under the same license as the original. In which case
mindterm is still
Malcolm Parsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The code can be de-uglified with a combination of this perl script, and
indent(1L):
---
#!/usr/bin/perl
$text=;
while(){ $text.=$_; }
$text =~ s/\/\*[^\*]*;[^\*]*\*\///sg;
$text =~
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