About license of sork modules

2006-05-01 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
I'm adding a CC to debian-legal, the Debian ML for legal issues. On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 09:08:30PM -0400, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote: Quoting Gregory Colpart [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Perhaps, I should ask this in all (core|drivers) developers listed in CREDITS file (but copyright in LICENSE file is for

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [sork] About license of sork modules]

2006-05-01 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 01 May 2006, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote: I suppose another question is, what level of contribution gives someone enough copyright say to need to approve a license change? Fixing a typo? A few lines of code? A whole new driver seems like enough to me; what about tweaking CSS? I don't know

Re: Bug#365194: Fwd: Re: [NONFREE-DOC] RFC1459, 2810-2813: IRC (Internet Relay Chat).

2006-05-01 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 07:41:28PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 01:55:55 +0200 Kurt Roeckx wrote: Do I need to get the copyright holder of the documents to relicense it under the GPL? It seems clear to me that it already is covered by the GPL, but it shouldn't be a

Free Art License

2006-05-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:54:53 +1000 Andrew Donnellan wrote: There is a license called the Free Art license, I don't know if that is DFSG-free. I believe that it is. However, it is not a very appropriate license for all-digital works. It is specifically designed to address physical artworks:

Re: MPEG-4 patent license issues - libfaad* and libx264* and other codecs.

2006-05-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 11:37:39PM +0100, Matthew William Solloway Bell wrote: The packages libxine1, ffmpeg, include libfaad*, libx264* or another codec which implement the MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding and Advanced Video Coding standards. Unfortunately, these are patent encumbered in at

Re: MPEG-4 patent license issues - libfaad* and libx264* and other codecs.

2006-05-01 Thread Måns Rullgård
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 11:37:39PM +0100, Matthew William Solloway Bell wrote: The packages libxine1, ffmpeg, include libfaad*, libx264* or another codec which implement the MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding and Advanced Video Coding standards.

Re: Free Art License

2006-05-01 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 1 May 2006 15:18:32 -0400 Nathanael Nerode wrote: On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:54:53 +1000 Andrew Donnellan wrote: There is a license called the Free Art license, I don't know if that is DFSG-free. I believe that it is. If you do, could you please reply to my analysis with an actual

Re: Re: MPEG-4 patent license issues - libfaad* and libx264* and other codecs.

2006-05-01 Thread Matthew William Solloway Bell
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 11:37:39PM +0100, Matthew William Solloway Bell wrote: The packages libxine1, ffmpeg, include libfaad*, libx264* or another codec which implement the MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding and Advanced Video Coding standards. Unfortunately, these are patent encumbered in at

Re: Re: MPEG-4 patent license issues - libfaad* and libx264* and other codecs.

2006-05-01 Thread Matthew William Solloway Bell
Oops, My mistake libavcodec is not using libx264, but it's own AVC decoder, and the FAA{C,D} code is an interface only. Matthew W. S. Bell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MPEG-4 patent license issues - libfaad* and libx264* and other codecs.

2006-05-01 Thread Måns Rullgård
Matthew William Solloway Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 11:37:39PM +0100, Matthew William Solloway Bell wrote: The packages libxine1, ffmpeg, include libfaad*, libx264* or another codec which implement the MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding and Advanced Video Coding