Re: PROPOSED: the Dictator Test (was: Contractual requirements

2004-07-01 Thread Joe Moore
On 2004-06-30 23:05:08 +0100 Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] We should come up with a name for this test. Maybe the Autocrat Test or the Dictator Test? The copyright (or patent, or trademark) holder does not get to make up his or her own laws? The Ideocrat Test? Or perhaps Egocrat?

Re: request-tracker3: licence problem

2004-07-01 Thread Jesse Vincent
so, the # BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK and # END LICENSE BLOCK lines are there _solely_ to allow an automated tagging tool to go through and tag things and not intended as an ammendment to the GPL. If we changed it to # {BEGIN|END} BPS-TAGGED BLOCK, would that satisfy the objection? On Thu, Jul 01,

Re: Visualboy Advance question.

2004-07-01 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Jun 29, 2004, at 18:22, Andrew Suffield wrote: Sony have given a stream of conflicting messages about the playstation platforms. More importantly, when they tried it against Connectix(sp?), they lost.

Re: request-tracker3: licence problem

2004-07-01 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 07:56:20AM -0400, Jesse Vincent wrote: so, the # BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK and # END LICENSE BLOCK lines are there _solely_ to allow an automated tagging tool to go through and tag things and not intended as an ammendment to the GPL. If we changed it to # {BEGIN|END}

Re: Licening ibwebadmin and JSRS

2004-07-01 Thread Remco Seesink
Each way you interpret it, it seems to miss something. Really, I agree with Andrew Suffield again (warning: End of World ahead). This is clumsy wording and I would be unhappy if it got into debian. I wish you luck persuading the author, but I think gutting/replacing the JSRS may be the

Re: PROPOSED: the Dictator Test (was: Contractual requirements

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 18:40, Joe Moore wrote: On 2004-06-30 23:05:08 +0100 Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] We should come up with a name for this test. Maybe the Autocrat Test or the Dictator Test? The copyright (or patent, or trademark) holder does not get to make up his or her

Re: Licening ibwebadmin and JSRS

2004-07-01 Thread Josh Triplett
Remco Seesink wrote: Great news, The author of JSRS agreed to a license change. I want to get it right now the first try, so I thought I better check here first. Good idea. How about this version where I removed the offending line? BEGIN JSRS LICENSE No Nonsense Copyright and License for

Re: PROPOSED: the Dictator Test

2004-07-01 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-07-01 03:16:10 +0100 Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] You might find the last two weeks of MPL Contract discussion useful. ...or not. I'm afraid I don't particularly want to learn huge detail about foreign law systems right now, as I have enough trouble trying

Re: Licening ibwebadmin and JSRS

2004-07-01 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Why not just point him at the smallest possible BSD-style license: Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list

Re: Contracts and licenses

2004-07-01 Thread Lex Spoon
Sending one email is not free for me, I pay $ per month to send email, receive email, and browse web pages. There may be no incremental cost associated with sending one email, but there is still a cost. (Therefore it's not free, so I don't have to send one) True, but a license clause

Re: Contracts and licenses

2004-07-01 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Jun 29, 2004, at 15:05, Lex Spoon wrote: More interestingly, the consideration might be really minor. Suppose it says you must email the author before distributing a modified version, provided that sending one email is free for you. This is certainly annoying, but it's very minor and it

Re: request-tracker3: license shadiness

2004-07-01 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Jul 1, 2004, at 03:12, Nick Phillips wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 05:00:54PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 04:51:06PM -0400, Michael Poole wrote: # Unless otherwise specified, all modifications, corrections or # extensions to this work which alter its source code

Re: Licening ibwebadmin and JSRS

2004-07-01 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Jul 1, 2004, at 14:48, Remco Seesink wrote: The only thing you can't do is to restrict anyone else from using it however they see fit. You may not change the rules I have set on how it can be used. What exactly is this trying to require? I can see several things: 1) You may not

Re: request-tracker3: license shadiness

2004-07-01 Thread Nick Phillips
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 05:00:54PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 04:51:06PM -0400, Michael Poole wrote: # Unless otherwise specified, all modifications, corrections or # extensions to this work which alter its source code become the # property of Best Practical