Re: Visualboy Advance question.

2004-06-24 Thread Josh Triplett
Ken Arromdee wrote: On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Josh Triplett wrote: Every package must specify the dependency information about other packages that are required for the first to work correctly. Emulators do not work correctly without software to emulate. If there is no software, then by

Re: Draft Summary: MPL is not DFSG free

2004-06-24 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:16:51 -0400 Lex Spoon wrote: First, the GPL states explicitly that you must accept the terms or that you do not get permission to do anything with the code. Should we argue with a statement that the text says itself? Wait, quoting from GPL#0: | Activities other than

Re: Summaries in general, was: Summary Update: MPL ...

2004-06-24 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 22:44:42 +0100 MJ Ray wrote: I see. Were you absent from the discussion earlier this year about whether these summaries would be useful? Now that we've seen them in action a few times, I feel that they are doing more harm than good because they always seem to include

RFC: moving from BSD to GPL

2004-06-24 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Is it possible for an upstream to change license from a BSD-old to GPL? Consider the hypothesis that the product is a derivative work with a few old contributors. I see no reasons to do not relicense after adding a credits note as required in the BSD license. Comments? -- Francesco P.

Re: RFC: moving from BSD to GPL

2004-06-24 Thread Michael Poole
Francesco P. Lovergine writes: Is it possible for an upstream to change license from a BSD-old to GPL? Consider the hypothesis that the product is a derivative work with a few old contributors. I see no reasons to do not relicense after adding a credits note as required in the BSD license.

Re: Summaries in general, was: Summary Update: MPL ...

2004-06-24 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-06-24 10:40:01 +0100 Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, IMHO, summaries of /license/ analyses are still useful. Oh, I agree, but I think we need to make a few changes to how they're being done, now we've seen them in action for a while. There seem to be two types of

Re: RFC: moving from BSD to GPL

2004-06-24 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-06-24 11:27:15 +0100 Francesco P. Lovergine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible for an upstream to change license from a BSD-old to GPL? Consider the hypothesis that the product is a derivative work with a few old contributors. I see no reasons to do not relicense after adding a

Re: cc65 license check -- main or non-free?

2004-06-24 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Jun 20, 2004, at 21:20, Benjamin Cutler wrote: Ok, just to see, I did a diff on any files that looked like they might have been derived from the other... none of them matched a SINGLE LINE OF CODE, except for silly things like opening/closing braces and a couple of #include lines, and a

Re: Draft Summary: MPL is not DFSG free

2004-06-24 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Lex Spoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you mean? In order to gain the licenses GPL grants you, you must comply with all of the terms. Some of those terms require that you perform in some way, e.g. by distributing source code. Actually, as

Re: cc65 license check -- main or non-free?

2004-06-24 Thread Benjamin Cutler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anthony DeRobertis wrote: | | If upstream is still active, please ask him about that. There might be a | reason for the license still being there; if not, it'd be best if he | removed it. | | I just sent this upstream: | On your page you have the

Re: patent aspects, was: Summary Update: MPL ...

2004-06-24 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
MJ Ray said on Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:19:36PM +0100,: I am glad that Mahesh has replied. I have noticed use of the debian-legal MPL discussion to justify condemnation of the term free software in messages to fsug-kochi-discuss. I was wondering about this, till I re-read what I wrote on