Re: cc65 licensing (was: cc65 license check -- main or non-free?)

2004-06-25 Thread Benjamin Cutler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ullrich von Bassewitz wrote: | There is no need to reference a license in a source file for it to be valid. | Source code is copyrighted with or without referencing a license in the files | itself. Apart from that, the old license is part of the

Apple's APSL 2.0 Debian Free Software Guidelines-compliant?

2004-06-25 Thread Ryan Rasmussen
Is the following compliant with Debian's Free Software Guidelines? --- APPLE PUBLIC SOURCE LICENSE Version 2.0 - August 6, 2003 Please read this License carefully before downloading this software. By downloading or using this

scummvm dependent games: non-free?

2004-06-25 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! [Please Cc: me on replies, I'm not subscribed to this list -- OTOH I'll watch the archive for answers anyway] I wonder why the games Beneath a Steel Sky and Flight of the Amazon Queen are in main. To me the license is quite clearly non-free, because its for non-commercial use only:

Re: Apple's APSL 2.0 Debian Free Software Guidelines-compliant?

2004-06-25 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 04:32:01AM -0500, Ryan Rasmussen wrote: Is the following compliant with Debian's Free Software Guidelines? No. 12.1 Termination. This License and the rights granted hereunder will terminate: (c) automatically without notice from Apple if You, at any time during the

Re: Apple's APSL 2.0

2004-06-25 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-06-25 10:32:01 +0100 Ryan Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the following compliant with Debian's Free Software Guidelines? This question doesn't really make sense as phrased, IMO. We provide the guidelines that we use to determine if a work is free in the document entitled The

Re: scummvm dependent games: non-free?

2004-06-25 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Fr, den 25.06.2004 schrieb Gerfried Fuchs um 12:11: 3) You may not charge a fee for the game itself. This includes reselling the game as an individual item. Doesn't this violate point 1 of the DFSG? AFAIK it is ok, as long as it is allowed to distribute it as part of something

Re: cc65 licensing

2004-06-25 Thread Benjamin Cutler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ullrich von Bassewitz wrote: | Huh? The docs and the web page do *clearly* state that this is not the case. | The web page for example says: | | Until today, I have rewritten large parts of the compiler, all of the | library, completely replaced

Re: cc65 licensing

2004-06-25 Thread Ullrich von Bassewitz
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 05:16:27AM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: | What exactly is unclear about this information? That it's not in the source files themselves. I've stated that twice: No conclusion at all can be drawn from the fact that a source file doesn't contain or reference a license.

Re: cc65 licensing

2004-06-25 Thread Michael Poole
Ullrich von Bassewitz writes: On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 05:16:27AM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: | What exactly is unclear about this information? That it's not in the source files themselves. I've stated that twice: No conclusion at all can be drawn from the fact that a source file doesn't

Re: cc65 licensing

2004-06-25 Thread Ullrich von Bassewitz
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 08:58:04AM -0400, Michael Poole wrote: That isn't meaningful: No one argues whether the source is copyrighted. The question is what license applies. But it's not me asking this question, it's you. I have always stated that the old license is still in effect for parts

Re: scummvm dependent games: non-free?

2004-06-25 Thread jens persson
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 01:13:10PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: At least the splash screen of Flight of the Amazon Queen when you start it is misleading at large, too: Unauthorized copying, reproduction, adoption, rental, public performance, broadcast or other exploitation of

Re: cc65 licensing

2004-06-25 Thread Michael Poole
Ullrich von Bassewitz writes: The usual presumption is that someone who distributes the code does so (a) as the original author, (b) in accordance with some license, or (c) because the code is in the public domain. If you distribute code, it is your responsibility that licenses on it are

Re: cc65 licensing

2004-06-25 Thread Ullrich von Bassewitz
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 09:59:14AM -0400, Michael Poole wrote: There is an important difference between distributing and redistributing: Only the author can be the original distributor, so he may give the code to anyone he wishes. All redistributors have to have license from the original

Re: cc65 licensing

2004-06-25 Thread mdpoole
Ullrich von Bassewitz writes: You are really making me upset. As you can see from Benjamin Cutlers attempts to find old code in the current sources, I could have easily claimed that all code was written by me - no one would have noticed. I haven't done that. In fact, I have marked new and

Re: cc65 licensing

2004-06-25 Thread Ullrich von Bassewitz
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 11:45:26AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those four files you say have JRD's code in them, though, what is in their headers? You are really trying, aren't you? There is my name in three of the files. This is because I created the files at the given date by copying

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Re: scummvm dependent games: non-free?

2004-06-25 Thread Josh Triplett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jens persson wrote: Hello, What I found strange and RC, (but haven't acted upon yet) is that I could not find any source. the upstream package just contains binary file (queen.1c for Flight of the Amazon Queen) that is copied into the package. I

Re: cc65 licensing

2004-06-25 Thread Michael Poole
Ullrich von Bassewitz writes: After downloading the sources, you claim that the all compiler sources refer to the new license. I prove this wrong. Now you're keeping up with some more claims, that just show that you didn't look at the original JRD sources. I'm maintaining my original

Re: cc65 licensing

2004-06-25 Thread MJ Ray
Dear subset of debian-legal contributors, Please try to be a bit more constructive when working with upstream developers. The debian developer reference and manuals generally encourage *co-ordination* with upstream. Nothing that gets this response: On 2004-06-25 16:07:40 +0100 Ullrich von

Re: Draft Summary: MPL is not DFSG free

2004-06-25 Thread Lex Spoon
Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second, while acceptance alone does not obligate anything of you, some obligations do kick in if you try to use some of the rights you have been granted. For example, if you take the option to distribute binaries of modifications and then post

Re: cc65 licensing

2004-06-25 Thread Benjamin Cutler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ullrich von Bassewitz wrote: | | Correction: You don't want to understand that. It can be easily seen from the | fact that you accused me of intentional muddling with licenses before even | looking at the source code, that it is not your intention to

Re: Apple's APSL 2.0 Debian Free Software Guidelines-compliant?

2004-06-25 Thread Jim Marhaus
Ryan wrote: [snip] 1.4 Externally Deploy means: (a) to sublicense, distribute or otherwise make Covered Code available, directly or indirectly, to anyone other than You; and/or (b) to use Covered Code, alone or as part of a Larger Work, in any way to provide a service, including but not

Re: Draft Summary: MPL is not DFSG free

2004-06-25 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-06-25 17:00:42 +0100 Lex Spoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] what we are usually talking about on debian-legal are the agreements, not the licenses granted in those agreements. Maybe this is indicative of a general topic drift in this list?

Re: Visualboy Advance question.

2004-06-25 Thread Walter Landry
Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 15:30, Walter Landry wrote: Evan Prodromou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 19:02, Josh Triplett wrote: While I agree that it is not necessarily required that a Free package Depend on some piece of Free