Re: FYI: Savannah forces new projects to use GFDL for documentation

2006-02-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Patrick Herzig wrote: FYI, Here's the full text: [...] http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:aaX81KBybOIJ:blog.kickino.org/+gfdl+compatible+license+savannahhl=engl=usct=clnkcd=2 is the google cache, http://rzlab.ucr.edu/debian/savannah_gnu_org_policy.html is a mirror of it

Re: Affero General Public License

2006-02-10 Thread Gervase Markham
Glenn Maynard wrote: But that's a special case; more generally, I don't see any way at all of satisfying this for the voicemail, toll booth, etc. cases. (Though the thought of someone corking up a toll booth lane on a busy interstate to plug in a USB pen drive and download its source is

Re: Affero General Public License

2006-02-10 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:07:08AM +, Gervase Markham wrote: Glenn Maynard wrote: But that's a special case; more generally, I don't see any way at all of satisfying this for the voicemail, toll booth, etc. cases. (Though the thought of someone corking up a toll booth lane on a busy

Re: Affero General Public License

2006-02-10 Thread MJ Ray
Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just that there has been a period when most debian-legal contributors were extremists or outright loons like you, and in this period while other developers were not looking these people found a consensus to change what until then was the widely accepted meaning

Re: PHP License for PHP Group packages

2006-02-10 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10553 March 1977, 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. So lets look at that

Re: FYI: Savannah forces new projects to use GFDL for documentation

2006-02-10 Thread Felix Kühling
Hmm, it seems this was a bit premature. The Savannah admin who was looking at my project registration wrote to me: quote The decision about the licenses of the project documentations was a bit prematurate and concerned discussions are in progress. So nothing has changed until now. If you are

Re: Adobe open source license -- is this licence free?

2006-02-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Raul Miller wrote: Any dispute arising out of or related to this Agreement shall be brought in the courts of Santa Clara County, California, USA. The big deal here is that if someone sues Adobe, Adobe doesn't have to incur huge legal fees defending themselves. Since it's free software, why

Re: please update the license text

2006-02-10 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:45:52 -0500 Charles Fry wrote: severity 332606 important [...] retitle 331418 'please update the license text' thanks Hi, For all current RC bugs in Pear packages that use the PHP License, I am downgrading the severity to important, and requesting that

Re: Adobe open source license -- is this licence free?

2006-02-10 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:21:44PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: If that is were actually what they wrote, I think a lot more people here would be willing to accept it. E.g, they could have said: Any dispute arising out of or related to this Agreement shall be brought in the