Re: CS00003271 - Please review your case update - (Assigned)

2005-06-06 Thread Horms
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 02:14:02PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2005 11:24:27 -0700, NIC Technology Support wrote: Below is a response to your case number CS3271 submitted to Broadcom NIC Technology Support. Case Title: GPLed driver and binary-only firmware blobs.

Understanding OEM software

2005-06-06 Thread Elisabeth
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Re: openssl vs. GPL question

2005-06-06 Thread Humberto Massa GuimarĂ£es
De: Steve Langasek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The phrase For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains appears in the text of GPL section *3*, which is not specific to works based on the Program. Such lack of attention to license detail from

Re: CS00003271 - Please review your case update - (Assigned)

2005-06-06 Thread Andres Salomon
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 13:03 +0900, Horms wrote: On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 02:14:02PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2005 11:24:27 -0700, NIC Technology Support wrote: Below is a response to your case number CS3271 submitted to Broadcom NIC Technology Support.

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 01:38:24PM -0400, astronut wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Jeff King wrote: The latter message is from me. I am looking for such a license, as I am trying to avoid ridiculous license propagation. My ideal license would

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-06 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: astronut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am probably wrong here, since I joined the list in the middle of the discussion, but can't you just put a notice at the top of the code like this? /* This code was written by name and is hereby released into the public domain

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-06 Thread Jeff King
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 07:57:47PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: What's the public domain in the context of UK / European law? I don't know, as I am neither a lawyer nor a European. However, I assume there is some concept of a work which has passed out of copyright (due to time limitations).

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-06 Thread Jeff King
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:24:51PM +0200, Arnoud Engelfriet wrote: The Netherlands is one. Well, we do have a public domain, but it only contains works that by law have no copyright and works whose copyright has expired. So what's wrong with a license like: You may do anything with this

Re: openssl vs. GPL question

2005-06-06 Thread Michael K. Edwards
You might also observe the comments at http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=6924 and http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=8508 regarding MySQL's retreat, first from providing OpenSSL-enabled binaries, and then from referencing OpenSSL in the server source code. Any bets on whether there was a quid pro

Re: openssl vs. GPL question

2005-06-06 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 6/6/05, Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The implementation of SSL in the Netscape NSS libraries is available under the GPL, and I believe certain versions of it have FIPS validation. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/fips/ I'm delighted to hear that. It does not

Re: openssl vs. GPL question

2005-06-06 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 6/6/05, Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P. S. If you think that an FSF vendetta against OpenSSL would be an anomaly, or that RMS is purist about copyright law when it comes to his own conduct, you might be interested in Theo de Raadt's comments at