Copyright violation in utils/bsdiff 4.2-1

2005-08-09 Thread Colin Percival
Quoth the changelog for bsdiff 4.2-1: bsdiff (4.2-1) unstable; urgency=low * Initial Release (Closes: #310736). * Added text from website into README. ^^^ The text from my website appears as part of bsdiff_4.2-1.diff.gz. My website, as an original

Re: Copyright violation in utils/bsdiff 4.2-1

2005-08-09 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] The text from my website appears as part of bsdiff_4.2-1.diff.gz. My website, as an original creative work, is covered by copyright laws and treaties. I did not give permission for my website to be copied and redistributed. Have your spoken to the

Re: Copyright violation in utils/bsdiff 4.2-1

2005-08-09 Thread Colin Percival
Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] The text from my website appears as part of bsdiff_4.2-1.diff.gz. My website, as an original creative work, is covered by copyright laws and treaties. I did not give permission for my website to be copied and redistributed.

Re: Copyright violation in utils/bsdiff 4.2-1

2005-08-09 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Colin Percival said on Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 11:00:47PM -0700,: * Added text from website into README. ^^^ The text from my website appears as part of bsdiff_4.2-1.diff.gz. My website, as an original creative work, is covered by copyright laws

Re: Copyright violation in utils/bsdiff 4.2-1

2005-08-09 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Mahesh T. Pai said on Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:30:01PM +0530,: I am filing a bug... No. 322147 with a patch :-) -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.port5.com Half knowledge is worse than ignorance. --Thomas B. Macaulay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: [Fwd: Copyright violation in utils/bsdiff 4.2-1]

2005-08-09 Thread Daniel Baumann
Colin Percival wrote: My website, as an original creative work, is covered by copyright laws and treaties. I did not give permission for my website to be copied and redistributed. I'll remove/patch it asap. I'm sorry if I did insult your intelectual property with this teeny-weeny readme-file.

Re: [Fwd: Copyright violation in utils/bsdiff 4.2-1]

2005-08-09 Thread Colin Percival
Daniel Baumann wrote: Colin Percival wrote: I don't think I need to explain the problem any further... Nevertheless, maybe you can give me a hint why you obviously don't want the text to be part of bsdiff? I don't like having my work copied without my permission; the fact that it is a

Re: [Fwd: Copyright violation in utils/bsdiff 4.2-1]

2005-08-09 Thread Daniel Baumann
Colin Percival wrote: If you had bothered to ask for permission, there's a good chance that I would have given it, but copying without even asking for permission is simply Not Acceptable. Ack, and as I said, I'm sorry for that, it is my fault. However, do you insist on removing the text, or do

Re: Copyright violation in utils/bsdiff 4.2-1

2005-08-09 Thread Joe Smith
Ok. My knowledge of how Debian does things is rather limited (I don't use Debian), so I emailed the most obvious contact. In FreeBSD committers are allowed to touch each other's code, so I assumed that anyone here would be able to fix the problem. :-) Unfortuantly we here at Debian don't

PHP License for stuff thats not PHP itself

2005-08-09 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi While doing a bit of work in the NEW queue Ive seen stuff using the PHP license (exact version doesnt matter, they differ from package to package, take http://www.php.net/license/2_02.txt or http://www.php.net/license/3_0.txt as examples). (3.0 in this case taken). It starts like a random

Re: texi2html images licence

2005-08-09 Thread Nigel Jones
(Also replying to bug page debian-legal (d-l: please CC me on any replies)) Personally from what I have gathered: * If texi2html has released the singular images under a special agreement (from which it seems), then maybe the images should be released dual-licensed (under GPL CC), of course

Re: PHP License for stuff thats not PHP itself

2005-08-09 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.php.net/license/3_0.txt as examples). 3. and 4. are IMO highly questionable if not directly non-free. With 4 you dont seem to be allowed to call it php if there is a diff.gz... And now try to use that point on a php-foo package. I agree.

Re: Requiring registration of GPL software

2005-08-09 Thread Gianfranco Lutjens
Himi name its Gianfranco Lutjens, and Im from Chile.I need to know if you ever received the password for the toolbox E4 for matlab. I need it to make a time series analisys very soon. If you got it, please, sent me.greatinf from Chile Gianfranco