Re: Bug#317359: kde: ..3'rd Help-About $KDE-app tab calls th e GPL License Agreement, ie; a contract.

2005-07-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
Quite the string of self-replies. Sorry about that. Didn't expect to turn up a run of interesting precedents with merchantability in various circuits after implied warranty was such a dud in the Ninth. In short, I begin to fear that _any_ GPL contributor who isn't shielded by having acted in

Re: Bug#317359: kde: ..3'rd Help-About $KDE-app tab calls th e GPL License Agreement, ie; a contract.

2005-07-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
Once more unto the breach, so to speak. I wrote: But if a Linux distro qualifies as a consumer good, other laws may apply -- conspicuously California's Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act ( http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cacodes/civ/1792-1795.7.html ). I am by no means convinced that the GPL

Re: Bug#317359: kde: ..3'rd Help-About $KDE-app tab calls th e GPL License Agreement, ie; a contract.

2005-07-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
This is the last installment of implied warranty citations for a while, I promise. Forgive me for spamming; this suddenly seemed important to me once Sean pointed out that no end user acceptance of warranty disclaimer could be a problem. Wow. Depending on which version of UCC 2318 a given state

Re: MP3 decoder packaged with XMMS

2005-07-15 Thread MJ Ray
Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] If I were defending, say, an Ogg/Vorbis implementation [...] I would argue that a wavelet transform is sufficiently different [...] Wavelet transforms are not the only thing the format supports, but it may be usable to defend a particular

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2005-07-15 Thread MJ Ray
Morten Werner Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: THIS SOFTWARE IS NOT FAULT TOLERANT AND SHOULD NOT BE USED IN ANY SITUATION ENDANGERING HUMAN LIFE OR PROPERTY. I consider this as a warning to the user, and not a usage limitation from the author. What do you think, and can the package go to

Correct license

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Re: Correct license

2005-07-15 Thread Florian Weimer
* Alex de Oliveira Silva: This license is in accordance with debian social contract? VOSTROM Public License will be Open Source http://oppleman.com/license/index.opp This clause seems to rule out in-house versions: | 7. no permission is granted to distribute, publicly display, or |

Re: Correct license

2005-07-15 Thread Humberto Massa Guimarães
| 7. no permission is granted to distribute, publicly display, or | publicly perform modifications to the Distribution made using | proprietary materials that cannot be released in source format under | conditions of this license; While this is probably DFSG-free, it can be very obnoxious,

Re: Correct license

2005-07-15 Thread Alex de Oliveira Silva
This is package. Package: layer-four traceroute Debian: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/lft -- .''`.Debian GNU/Linux : :' : Alex de Oliveira Silva (enerv) `. `'`Home Page: www.debian-ce.org `- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

Re: Correct license

2005-07-15 Thread Florian Weimer
* Humberto Massa Guimarães: | 7. no permission is granted to distribute, publicly display, or | publicly perform modifications to the Distribution made using | proprietary materials that cannot be released in source format under | conditions of this license; While this is probably

Re: Mandatory click wraps trivially non-free

2005-07-15 Thread Raul Miller
On 7/14/05, Sean Kellogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but nothing worth quibbling over. Obviously the GPL prohibits a pop-up which cannot be removed by a later distributor. My only contention was that as a distributor, if I wanted extra assurance that those I was distributing to saw the GPL,

Re: MP3 decoder packaged with XMMS

2005-07-15 Thread Raul Miller
On 7/13/05, Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's difficult to create JPEG image rendering software without using technologies described by MP3 patents. On 7/13/05, Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So do tell us where MP3 patents fit -- what patents, which claims, and what

Re: MP3 decoder packaged with XMMS

2005-07-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 7/15/05, Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I very carefully made a distinction between technology described by the patents and patented technology in the message you're responding to. One example of technology where this distinction should be clear is the use of time - frequency

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Re: MP3 decoder packaged with XMMS

2005-07-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Michael K. Edwards wrote: The Federal Circuit, en banc, characterized one defendant's reliance on a similar statistic (offered by their counsel and apparently relied on in good faith to the extent that that means anything) as flagrant disregard of presumptively valid patents without

Re: MP3 decoder packaged with XMMS

2005-07-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
I have copied the Executive Contact and the Legal Counsel for Xiph.org on this message. Please drop them on follow-ups that are not relevant to Ogg/Vorbis. Mr. Rosedale and Mr. Moffitt: the topic of MP3 patents arose on debian-legal (thread at

Re: MP3 decoder packaged with XMMS

2005-07-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 7/15/05, Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael K. Edwards wrote: The Federal Circuit, en banc, characterized one defendant's reliance on a similar statistic (offered by their counsel and apparently relied on in good faith to the extent that that means anything) as

Re: MP3 decoder packaged with XMMS

2005-07-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
Oh, and by the way: get the letter quoted at http://ballsome.org/index.php/news/100 on corporate letterhead, and Debian and most of its users are probably (IMHO, IANAL, TINLA) golden WRT both MP3 encoding and decoding, anywhere that reliance to one's detriment and substantial non-infringing use

Re: Correct license

2005-07-15 Thread MJ Ray
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] This clause resembles the extended copyleft provisions of the Affero General Public License. Has debian-legal reached consensus on that license? Only that it sucks, I think, not whether it's for main or not. There were one or two people willing to

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Re: Correct license

2005-07-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 7/15/05, Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This clause resembles the extended copyleft provisions of the Affero General Public License. Has debian-legal reached consensus on that license? For my own part, two words: Idiotic. Non-free. (Gratuitously non-GPL-compatible,

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Re: MP3 decoder packaged with XMMS

2005-07-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
I wrote: Personally, I would be little more inclined to rely on the continued availability of royalty-free open-source Ogg/Vorbis encoders than their MP3 equivalents without some indication that someone competent is on record as to the basis for a reasonable belief that they do not infringe

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Re: MP3 decoder packaged with XMMS

2005-07-15 Thread Jack Moffitt
I have copied the Executive Contact and the Legal Counsel for Xiph.org on this message. Please drop them on follow-ups that are not relevant to Ogg/Vorbis. Mr. Rosedale and Mr. Moffitt: the topic of MP3 patents arose on debian-legal (thread at

Re: RFS: libopenspc -- library for playing SPC files

2005-07-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
(Follow-ups to debian-legal, please.) FWIW, I would not touch SNEeSe or any fragment derived from it with a ten-foot pole unless they can tell you where sneese.dat came from and what's in it. My guess is that it is an infringing copy of the contents of an SNES64 ROM and that the history of its

Re: MP3 decoder packaged with XMMS

2005-07-15 Thread Rich Walker
Jack Moffitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip, chop, trim] Before we released Ogg Vorbis beta 1, we did indeed hire a patent specializing attorney to go over the MP3 suite of patents. He only thought it necessary to issue a formal opinion on a single one of these patents. We were advised

Re: MP3 decoder packaged with XMMS

2005-07-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
Thanks very much to Mr. Moffitt for weighing in! On 7/15/05, Jack Moffitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick note on this thread. Time seems to have erased the memory of Thompson going after everyone. 8hz-enc, bladeenc, lame, and many other projects have shut down (from cease and desist

Re: MP3 decoder packaged with XMMS

2005-07-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 7/15/05, Rich Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. why was the opinion not to be divulged publically? Whether or not the attorney requests that the opinion not be made public, it tends to be wise to preserve attorney-client privilege at the heart of a matter that may be litigated someday --

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RE: MP3 decoder packaged with XMMS

2005-07-15 Thread Tom Rosedale
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Re: MP3 decoder packaged with XMMS

2005-07-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 7/15/05, Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you point me to a brief but technical summary of some of the Ogg Vorbis codecs? I would be curious to compare them against the MP3 techniques, about which I know at least a little bit. I am _not_ trying to create trouble here;

Re: MP3 decoder packaged with XMMS

2005-07-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
I wrote: By the way, where did you get the numbers in floor1_inverse_dB_table? If that's an important part of the psycho-acoustic magic, its provenance needs documenting, or it could get ugly in a court of fact when an expert witness lies with numbers. The general public can't tell what the

Re: MP3 decoder packaged with XMMS

2005-07-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 06:20:14PM -0600, Jack Moffitt wrote: I have copied the Executive Contact and the Legal Counsel for Xiph.org on this message. Please drop them on follow-ups that are not relevant to Ogg/Vorbis. Mr. Rosedale and Mr. Moffitt: the topic of MP3 patents arose on

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Re: RFS: libopenspc -- library for playing SPC files

2005-07-15 Thread Ryan Schultz
On Friday 15 July 2005 08:36 pm, Michael K. Edwards wrote: (Follow-ups to debian-legal, please.) FWIW, I would not touch SNEeSe or any fragment derived from it with a ten-foot pole unless they can tell you where sneese.dat came from and what's in it. My guess is that it is an infringing copy