Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-02-02 Thread olive
Olive's argument seems to boil down to that, in order to avoid annoying people, Debian should - allow consessions (new restrictions that do not benefit Free Software; that is, a one-way exchange), if they appear minor. This is a chipping- away at the standards of free software, allowing more

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-02-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 01:49:59PM +0400, olive wrote: You seem to say that if a given license has conditions that would best be removed to benefit free software then the license is by itself non-free. But Debian does not choose the license of a given software; it just choose if will

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-02-02 Thread Yorick Cool
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 05:24:26AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: Glenn On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 01:49:59PM +0400, olive wrote: Glenn You seem to say that if a given license has conditions that would best Glenn be removed to benefit free software then the license is by itself Glenn non-free. But

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-02-02 Thread olive
The choice of whether to include a work is based on whether its license is free. The definition of free is based, ultimately, on whether it benefits free software or not. You're trying to bypass the process that determines that, by handwaving wildly and saying but anyway, who cares, it would

are PHP license 3.0 or 3.1 compatible with Debian ?

2006-02-02 Thread José Carlos do Nascimento Medeiros
Hi, Im mantainer of two packages in Debian, and they have problems with php license 2.0. php group released new version of php license, solving problems with Debian. Is these version compatible with Debian , ? Thanks Jose Carlos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-02-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 03:40:11PM +0400, olive wrote: the open source movement and the FSF): it is astonishing that licenses that does not follow the DFSG does follow the law of the open source movement which are exactly the same ones! So now we're being inconsistent because our conclusions

Re: Trademark policy for packages?

2006-02-02 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems that you should be able to tell people, in marketing materials, what is included in Debian. Like saying Debian support IPSEC, TLS and Kerberos.. Claiming that on the CD cover seem to violate the request by MIT to not use the Kerberos

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-02-02 Thread olive
Wow--you're actually arguing that invariant sections are free? (I thought we were talking about the less blindingly obvious cases, like anti-DRM restrictions or choice of venue--too many parallel threads, perhaps.) This isn't a debated topic anymore; Debian agrees with me unambiguously (see

Re: PHP License for PHP Group packages

2006-02-02 Thread Charles Fry
It would be most helpful if we could make some progress on this issue. There are a handful of RC bugs whose maintainers are trying to work with their upstream authors to find resolution. In some cases the upstream authors believe that the problem should be fixed with the new PHP License. It is

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-02-02 Thread Jeremy Hankins
olive [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let's conclude we do not agree. I respect your opinion but I invite you to respect mine. Note that this is exactly the opposite of what I've taken to be your central thesis: that having multiple points of view damages the free software community. I've already

Re: Trademark policy for packages?

2006-02-02 Thread Florian Weimer
* Simon Josefsson: My question is: What is Debian's policy on trademarks for terms used in documentation and package descriptions? There are no established policies, AFAIK. As long as trademark issues do not prevent creation and distribution of derivative works, or prevent an interoperable

Re: are PHP license 3.0 or 3.1 compatible with Debian ?

2006-02-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * José Carlos do Nascimento Medeiros [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060202 12:49]: Hi, Im mantainer of two packages in Debian, and they have problems with php license 2.0. php group released new version of php license, solving problems with Debian. Is these version compatible with Debian , ? I

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-02-02 Thread olive
Jeremy Hankins wrote: olive [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let's conclude we do not agree. I respect your opinion but I invite you to respect mine. Note that this is exactly the opposite of what I've taken to be your central thesis: that having multiple points of view damages the free software

Re: PHP License for PHP Group packages

2006-02-02 Thread José Carlos do Nascimento Medeiros
Charles, I agree with you, but I think ftp master will not change. I really do not have more time to this unfinished topic :( Can you adopt these packages that have RC bugs because license ? php-net-checkip php-services-weather I will be very grateful, as this packages are dependence from

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-02-02 Thread Mark Rafn
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Glenn Maynard wrote: The choice of whether to include a work is based on whether its license is free. The definition of free is based, ultimately, on whether it benefits free software or not. I fully and completely disagree with this, although you're right that Debian's

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-02-02 Thread Walter Landry
olive [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeremy Hankins wrote: olive [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let's conclude we do not agree. I respect your opinion but I invite you to respect mine. Note that this is exactly the opposite of what I've taken to be your central thesis: that having

Re: PHP License for PHP Group packages

2006-02-02 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 10:05:03 -0500 Charles Fry wrote: Once again, I repeat my claim: that the 3.01 version of the PHP License is equally fit for licensing PHP itself and PHP Group software. This claim has been upheld over months of sporadic discussion on the matter at debian-legal. Given

Re: are PHP license 3.0 or 3.1 compatible with Debian ?

2006-02-02 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 17:06:58 +0100 Alexander Schmehl wrote: I only found 3.0 and 3.01, please add license texts to your mail. Makes thinks easier. However: The license texts I found still contain the following point: 6. Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the

Re: Trademark policy for packages?

2006-02-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 05:06:19PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: There are no established policies, AFAIK. As long as trademark issues do not prevent creation and distribution of derivative works, or prevent an interoperable reimplementation, trademarks are outside Debian's scope. If Debian's

Re: PHP License for PHP Group packages

2006-02-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:06:43PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 10:05:03 -0500 Charles Fry wrote: Once again, I repeat my claim: that the 3.01 version of the PHP License is equally fit for licensing PHP itself and PHP Group software. This claim has been upheld over

Squiz.net Open Source License - is it free?

2006-02-02 Thread Andrew Donnellan
Hi, What do you all think of this license? I think this license may be non-Free. The main part which I don't like is the 'Notify' definition. This license is being used by an 'open-source' product now used by the Australian Government (MySource CMS, available at http://matrix.squiz.net). Andrew

Re: Squiz.net Open Source License - is it free?

2006-02-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
This is one of the most non-free and poorly written licenses I've seen pass the list in a long time. On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:47:39AM +1100, Andrew Donnellan wrote: (a) You must not introduce any virus, worm, trojan horse or malicious code into the Software; Free Software must allow

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-02-02 Thread olive
You do realize that even the FSF does not think that the GFDL is a free license? They just don't think that freedom is as important for documentation as in software. That is totally untrue; see for example: http://www.gnu.org/doc/doc.html Olive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-02-02 Thread olive
Debian does not contain non-free. I'm fine with Debian providing non-free software, but it's not part of Debian, and I like that people are motivated to create free alternatives. -- People will be motivated to create free alternatives if anyone agree that the fact that the license is non

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-02-02 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 03 Feb 2006, olive wrote: People will be motivated to create free alternatives if anyone agree that the fact that the license is non free. Do you really believe that many people will be motivated to create a free alternative of an OSI-certified license; which is considered free also by