Re: DFSG#10 [was: Re: Draft Debian-legal summary of the LGPL]

2004-06-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:19:55PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:37:43AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: Some require it in the end-user documentation (Apache), which seems stronger. That's a problem, then. The full clause: 3. The end-user documentation

Re: DFSG#10 [was: Re: Draft Debian-legal summary of the LGPL]

2004-06-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:54:03AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 05:36:42PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: i.e., we include it in the supporting documentation /usr/share/doc/PACAGE/copyright, which we have to include anyway. On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:34:47AM

Re: DFSG#10 [was: Re: Draft Debian-legal summary of the LGPL]

2004-06-08 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:20:56PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: 3. The end-user documentation included with the redistribution, if any, must include the following acknowledgment: This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation

Re: Bug#251983: libcwd: QPL license is non-free; package should not be in main

2004-06-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 01:38:26AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: snip If this is agreed upon by everyone - then it makes sense to talk about the choice of venue versus choise of law thing. Provided that libcwd WILL be included in Debian, I am willing to change the wording of the last

Re: A radical approach to rewriting the DFSG

2004-06-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 06:28:12AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: I have been toying with the possibility of rewriting the DFSG such that it enumerates which things a free license *can* do, rather than just give examples of things it *cannot*. I think that such a revision could get the

Re: Which license for a documentation?

2004-06-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 11:50:31AM +0200, Måns Rullgård wrote: I know what please means. What I fail to understand is what it is that is so terrible about asking for credit for your work. Nothing at all is wrong with that, and anyone who characterizes the Debian Project as asserting this is

Re: Which license for a documentation?

2004-06-08 Thread Måns Rullgård
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 11:50:31AM +0200, Måns Rullgård wrote: I know what please means. What I fail to understand is what it is that is so terrible about asking for credit for your work. Nothing at all is wrong with that, and anyone who

Re: Which license for a documentation?

2004-06-08 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040608 09:14]: Nothing at all is wrong with that, and anyone who characterizes the Debian Project as asserting this is wrong, and may be being deliberately deceptive. That was not what I meant to say. However, someone did suggest that such a request

gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Benjamin Cutler
I'm pretty sure the following is at the very least non-free, but I wanted to run it by here first because I don't want to waste any more time trying to package this unless it can at least go in non-free. I already had to close the ITP[1] once I discovered that some of the code was lacking a

Re: Which license for a documentation?

2004-06-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-06-08 08:14:13 +0100 Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] However, someone did suggest that such a request would make the program non-free. [...] Do you mean Josh Triplett? He accepted Lewis Jardine's correction. Why won't you? I understand that it could be an

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Not only is that non-free, it may not be distributable. A single work, parts of which are GPL'd and parts of which are non-free, can't be distributed because the GPL requires that the entire thing be under the terms of the GPL. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen

Re: oaklisp: contains 500kB binary in source

2004-06-08 Thread Barak Pearlmutter
This is a technical issue related to ease of bootstrapping on a new architecture, and not a legal issue. As a technical measure, the circular dependency could be broken and the alternative prebuild-world-in-source kludge eliminated by writing an Oaklisp interpreter in another language (say, RnRS

Re: Which license for a documentation?

2004-06-08 Thread Barak Pearlmutter
This is not the first time that this has come up. Perhaps there could be a FAQ at www.debian.org/legal? Great idea. Perhaps the draft FAQ I started could be moved? http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html (Just added this question to it.) It is in pretty good shape, with contributions from

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Benjamin Cutler
Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Not only is that non-free, it may not be distributable. A single work, parts of which are GPL'd and parts of which are non-free, can't be distributed because the GPL requires that the entire thing be under the terms of the GPL. -Brian I guess I'm missing

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Benjamin Cutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Not only is that non-free, it may not be distributable. A single work, parts of which are GPL'd and parts of which are non-free, can't be distributed because the GPL requires that the entire thing be under the terms of

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Humberto Massa
@ 08/06/2004 12:10 : wrote Benjamin Cutler : Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Not only is that non-free, it may not be distributable. A single work, parts of which are GPL'd and parts of which are non-free, can't be distributed because the GPL requires that the entire thing be under the terms

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Benjamin Cutler
Humberto Massa wrote: Well, it is if you yank off the non-GPL parts. If you meant the _pristine_, untouched source tarball, yes, it's not distributable. If gens is still usable/useful without the non-free parts, you can package it this way (/vide/ all the flam^W healthy discussions about the

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Lewis Jardine
Benjamin Cutler wrote: Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Not only is that non-free, it may not be distributable. A single work, parts of which are GPL'd and parts of which are non-free, can't be distributed because the GPL requires that the entire thing be under the terms of the GPL. -Brian I

Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread Evan Prodromou
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm writing because I've just been made aware of this summary of the Creative Commons Attribution 1.0 license: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/04/msg00031.html Let me first note that Creative Commons uses a suite of licenses, with a

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Humberto Massa
@ 08/06/2004 12:58 : wrote Benjamin Cutler : Humberto Massa wrote: Well, it is if you yank off the non-GPL parts. If you meant the _pristine_, untouched source tarball, yes, it's not distributable. If gens is still usable/useful without the non-free parts, you can package it this way (/vide/

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:58:57AM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: Humberto Massa wrote: Well, it is if you yank off the non-GPL parts. If you meant the _pristine_, untouched source tarball, yes, it's not distributable. If gens is still usable/useful without the non-free parts, you can

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Benjamin Cutler
Humberto Massa wrote: I can't even find the original source page for Starscream any more... Other (better!) option would be try the Starscream original author to release under a more liberal license (BSD/MIT/2clause or even the GPL). As to mpg123, what about mpg321 ?? I should also have

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Benjamin Cutler
Andrew Suffield wrote: No amount of hoop-jumping will help you here. It's still clearly a derivative work of starscream. Not even something like what I mentioned in my other message? Seperating the source packages wouldn't help either? m68k is not a difficult chip to emulate, and there

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 12:06:25PM -0400, Evan Prodromou wrote: I'm writing because I've just been made aware of this summary of the Creative Commons Attribution 1.0 license: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/04/msg00031.html Let me first note that Creative Commons uses a suite

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:01:23AM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: Andrew Suffield wrote: No amount of hoop-jumping will help you here. It's still clearly a derivative work of starscream. Not even something like what I mentioned in my other message? Seperating the source packages

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 10:58:04AM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: Humberto Massa wrote: I can't even find the original source page for Starscream any more... Other (better!) option would be try the Starscream original author to release under a more liberal license (BSD/MIT/2clause or even

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Josh Triplett
Benjamin Cutler wrote: I had another idea, though. I've noticed a few packages in contrib don't actually assemble the package until postinst... could I seperate gens into gens (all the GPL code) and gens-nonfree (mpg123 and Starscream), and have gens postinst call ld at install-time? The two

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Josh Triplett
Benjamin Cutler wrote: I can't even find the original source page for Starscream any more... A search for the author's name turns up http://www.neillcorlett.com/ , which has a page http://www.neillcorlett.com/star/ about Starscream. There is an email address on that site's contact page; is it

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Benjamin Cutler
Andrew Suffield wrote: A quick search of the Packages file reveals basilisk2, an emulator for m68k macs. I know there are more m68k emulators out there, which haven't been packaged. Looking at Basalisk it says that it uses UAE's emu core for m68k... sounds like it's worth looking into, but

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Humberto Massa
@ 08/06/2004 13:58 : wrote Benjamin Cutler : Humberto Massa wrote: I can't even find the original source page for Starscream any more... Other (better!) option would be try the Starscream original author to release under a more liberal license (BSD/MIT/2clause or even the GPL). As to

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Benjamin Cutler
Josh Triplett wrote: Benjamin Cutler wrote: I can't even find the original source page for Starscream any more... A search for the author's name turns up http://www.neillcorlett.com/ , which has a page http://www.neillcorlett.com/star/ about Starscream. There is an email address on that

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Benjamin Cutler
Benjamin Cutler wrote: Searching for Starscream somehow managed to miss that page. I'll check it out. Eh, it's the same thing from before. Different addy, but just about the same content. I'm going to look into replacing the m68k core. Probably from UAE, since that's a pretty tested

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Josh Triplett wrote: That is commonly done for packages that allow distribution as source only, or do not allow distribution of binaries built from modified source. It does not get around the GPL's requirements. Quoting from http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html :

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:42:12AM -0700, Ken Arromdee wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Josh Triplett wrote: That is commonly done for packages that allow distribution as source only, or do not allow distribution of binaries built from modified source. It does not get around the GPL's

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Josh Triplett
Ken Arromdee wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Josh Triplett wrote: That is commonly done for packages that allow distribution as source only, or do not allow distribution of binaries built from modified source. It does not get around the GPL's requirements. Quoting from

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 02:35:55PM -0400, Evan Prodromou wrote: AS We've done these to death already, starting in 2003. They're AS non-free. That won't change. Ah. Well, could you respond to my points as to why I think they _are_ free? I disagree with the terms of the summary. You

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Andrew Suffield wrote: The FSF's position here is well-known, but has some odd implications. For instance, if you write code that requires Windows libraries, it is a derivative work of Windows, and thus Microsoft can at any time prohibit you from distributing it.

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Josh Triplett
Ken Arromdee wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Andrew Suffield wrote: The FSF's position here is well-known, but has some odd implications. For instance, if you write code that requires Windows libraries, it is a derivative work of Windows, and thus Microsoft can at any time prohibit you from

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Humberto Massa
@ 08/06/2004 14:48 : wrote Benjamin Cutler : Benjamin Cutler wrote: Searching for Starscream somehow managed to miss that page. I'll check it out. Eh, it's the same thing from before. Different addy, but just about the same content. I'm going to look into replacing the m68k core.

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread Evan Prodromou
AS == Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AS Beyond that I'm not personally inclined to analyse a license AS which is clearly non-free for other reasons; it's AS time-consuming. No problem; I'm sure someone else will chime in. Thanks for your help so far. ~ESP -- Evan

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 12:00:21PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: Also, note that the Linux kernel includes an explicit exception for works that simply make system calls; without that exception, software that uses any system call specific to Linux would most likely be a derived work of the

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-06-08 17:06:25 +0100 Evan Prodromou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second, let me note how poorly timed the analysis is. Creative Commons revised their suite of licenses this year (from 1.0 to 2.0), and this list was asked to provide comment:

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So before Wine was created, anything which uses a Windows library was a derivative of Windows? Yes. There are so many theories on this subject that I am perpetually confused, but I don't think that is what is usually claimed in the case of GPL libraries.

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread Evan Prodromou
MR == MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Me Second, let me note how poorly timed the analysis is. MR It may be poorly timed but at least a debian user helped to MR make it happen. Please praise Ben Francis and give him due MR credit for getting your attention with MR

license change for POSIX manpages

2004-06-08 Thread Andre Lehovich
(Please cc: me on replies) The upstream source for the manpages has received permission from IEEE to include text from the POSIX documentation in Linux manual pages. Debian has not distributed the POSIX man pages because until recently the license prohibited modification. The latest version

Re: gens License Check - Non-free

2004-06-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 10:03:38PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So before Wine was created, anything which uses a Windows library was a derivative of Windows? Yes. There are so many theories on this subject that I am perpetually confused,

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-06-08 17:06:25 +0100 Evan Prodromou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a number of mix-and-match license elements (Attribution, ShareAlike, NonCommercial, NoDerivatives). So any CC license that would require Attribution would also fall under this analysis. Do any SA/NC/ND licences not include

Re: license change for POSIX manpages

2004-06-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 04:32:11PM -0700, Andre Lehovich wrote: The latest version (1.67, 20 May 2004) now allows modification, so long as any conflicts with the standard are clearly marked as such in the text. This seems to be reasonable. It's also right up against the line - a stronger

Mozilla Public License is non-free: stipulates court venue ?

2004-06-08 Thread Jim Marhaus
Hi all - With the recent discussion about choice of venue, I was wondering about the Mozilla license. Specifically, the Mozilla Public License v. 1.1 [1] seems to contain a choice of venue clause in section 11: | With respect to disputes in which at least one party is a citizen of, or an |

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-06-09 00:12:02 +0100 Evan Prodromou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MR == MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please don't SuperCite outgoing email. It is difficult to follow. [...] I'm now subscribed to debian-legal and I'll try to keep the lines of communication open better. I don't think

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
posted mailed Evan Prodromou wrote: snip Making our organization's ideas known to Creative Commons could have meant a better suite of licenses for the 2.0 release. Instead, the opportunity was missed. As far as I know, the above-mentioned analysis wasn't forwarded to Creative Commons before

Re: Mozilla Public License is non-free: stipulates court venue ?

2004-06-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Jim Marhaus wrote: Hi all - With the recent discussion about choice of venue, I was wondering about the Mozilla license. Specifically, the Mozilla Public License v. 1.1 [1] seems to contain a choice of venue clause in section 11: | With respect to disputes in which at least one party

Re: license change for POSIX manpages

2004-06-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
posted mailed Andre Lehovich wrote: (Please cc: me on replies) The upstream source for the manpages has received permission from IEEE to include text from the POSIX documentation in Linux manual pages. Debian has not distributed the POSIX man pages because until recently the license

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-06-09 01:56:18 +0100 Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) As for the trademark clause, I agree that the trademark requirement is burdensome. This isn't supposed to be an actual part of the license, according to the source code for the web page; [...] I missed that. I'm not

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread Josh Triplett
MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-06-08 17:06:25 +0100 Evan Prodromou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a number of mix-and-match license elements (Attribution, ShareAlike, NonCommercial, NoDerivatives). So any CC license that would require Attribution would also fall under this analysis. Do any SA/NC/ND

Re: Creative Commons Attribution license element

2004-06-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Evan Prodroumou wrote: On the Creative Commons side, I'd wonder what opportunity there is to get Debian's very tardy comments and critiques applied to new versions of the CC licenses. Perhaps if they read their own mailing list?... The trademark issue appears to be an issue solely with the web

Re: Mozilla Public License is non-free: stipulates court venue ?

2004-06-08 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 10:30:09PM +, Jim Marhaus wrote: | With respect to disputes in which at least one party is a citizen of, or an | entity chartered or registered to do business in the United States of America, | any litigation relating to this License shall be subject to the