Re: General Copyright Questions

2005-09-27 Thread MJ Ray
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Pinheiro?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was talking about copyright details with a friend of mine a few minutes ago and he presented me the following scenario: Amazon has millions of book covers in their database [...] I'm happy that you regard debian-legal highly enough to

Question about RSA licence

2005-09-27 Thread ludovic . rousseau
Hello, please Cc: me on replies, The opensc package includes rsaref headers [0] from RSA. The RSA disclaimer has been added in a new upstream version [1] and should be included in a next Debian opensc package. The RSA disclaimer is [2]: Regarding the header / include files: License to

Re: Question about RSA licence

2005-09-27 Thread MJ Ray
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The opensc package includes rsaref headers [0] from RSA. [...] - is this licence DFSG compliant? I would say yes but the (re)distribution right is not explicitely given. - is this licence GPL compatible? I would say no since it has the same problem than the

Opinion on avoiding Copyright and Trademark infringement.

2005-09-27 Thread James Damour
I'm a project admin for MegaMek[1], a SourceForge project that allows players to play BattleTech[2] (a popular boardgame whose IP is owned by WizKids LLC.[3]) online. The code is written in Java, and the GNU Classpath community is rapidly approaching completion of the APIs that the project uses.

Re: Linux Documentation Project License (LDPL) v2.0

2005-09-27 Thread Humberto Massa
@ 26/09/2005 17:31 : wrote Francesco Poli : On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:33:25 +0200 Josselin Mouette wrote: Le lundi 26 septembre 2005 à 12:09 -0300, Humberto Massa a écrit : 2. The person making the modifications must be identified. Yellow alert -- dissident test. Marco

Re: Is VIGRA Artistic License licence free and GPL-compatible ?

2005-09-27 Thread Humberto Massa
@ 26/09/2005 18:39 : wrote Jacobo Tarrio : El lunes, 26 de septiembre de 2005 a las 19:34:00 +0200, Claus Färber escribía: a. place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them Freely Available, for example by allowing the Copyright Holder to include your

Re: Opinion on avoiding Copyright and Trademark infringement.

2005-09-27 Thread MJ Ray
James Damour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I'm fairly confident that my project does not infringe on the copyrights of the boardgame authors, given my reading of the US code[4], [...] I agree with you. I think others might not (mise en scene and all that), so I leave it for them to suggest

Re: Opinion on avoiding Copyright and Trademark infringement.

2005-09-27 Thread Raul Miller
On 9/27/05, James Damour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem lies in the realm of Copyright and Trademark. I'd be tempted to use mecha instead of mech. Mecha has a strongly established generic use tradition. -- Raul

List 'geovrml' closed to public posts

2005-09-27 Thread Listar Mailing List Mangler
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Re: Linux Documentation Project License (LDPL) v2.0

2005-09-27 Thread Nathanael Nerode
2. The person making the modifications must be identified. Matthew Garrett wrote: Fails the dissident test, but there's some level of disagreement over whether that matters. Doesn't it depend on the meaning of identified? We accept such licenses if arbitrary pseudonyms are

Re: Pre-ITP - LARN and Noah Morgan

2005-09-27 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Fred Fish and Daniel Kegel included specific license text in their contributions that limit use to Personal, Noncommercial. Dan Kegel's pretty easy to find in the free software world; if you ask him he may be willing to relicense under the same license everyone else on the project uses. The