Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-26 Thread Andreas Barth
* Stephen Frost ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060525 06:01]: Unfortunately, neither the FAQ nor emails from Sun are actually legally binding I'm not sure why mails shouldn't be legally binding (of course, depending on their content - I didn't see any mails up to now). Cheers, Andi --

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-26 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 5/26/06, Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some people think that only machine opcodes are software, and that data in other formats are not. The argument, here, is that if it's not an opcode for the currently running machine, it's not a machine instruction, and if it's not a machine

licenses with name changing clauses (was: license of cstex / cslatex)

2006-05-26 Thread Frank Küster
Thomas Esser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had done modifications of three files of that package and distributed the changed files using the original filename. The author told me that this violates his license. Actually, this only happened, because when reading his license the first time, I

Re: libjlha-java license problem

2006-05-26 Thread Josh Triplett
Ying-Chun Liu wrote: Dear all, I intend to package libjlha-java which can be downloaded from http://homepage1.nifty.com/dangan/Content/Program/Java/jLHA/LhaLibrary.html . In every source files (*.java) there is a license written in Japanese: Copyright (C) 2002 Michel Ishizuka All rights

Re: license of cstex / cslatex

2006-05-26 Thread Joe Smith
Thomas Esser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, the teTeX package contains files which use the following license: COPYRIGHT = This macro package (csplain.ini, il2code.tex, csfonts.tex, hyphen.lan, plaina4.tex) is free software; you can

Re: license of cstex / cslatex

2006-05-26 Thread Richard Stallman
- is it valid to refer to GPL and add such severe restrictions in an appendix? No. Trying to add extra restrictions onto the GNU GPL results in a sort of self-contradiction, where it is not clear what the license of a modified version should be. - is this a free

Re: licenses with name changing clauses (was: license of cstex / cslatex)

2006-05-26 Thread MJ Ray
=?iso-8859-1?q?Frank_K=FCster?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] While we're at it, there's a different issue in teTeX and TeXLive for which I'd like to have some advice from -legal. ukhyphen.tex has now a supposedly free license, but it has a broader renaming clause: Wow, that's arrogant, not only reserving

Re: visual boy advance

2006-05-26 Thread Andrew Donnellan
Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around Ironic. On 5/25/06, Arthur Layton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On visual boy advance I downloaded the legend of zelda the minish cap and I started playing it. When I was close to beating the game the game just kept resetting all by it

Re: license of cstex / cslatex

2006-05-26 Thread Frank Küster
Joe Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Questions: - is it valid to refer to GPL and add such severe restrictions in an appendix? It is legal AFAIK (IANAL), but is relly poor form. Agreed. Also it makes the work GPL-incompatible, which kindof defeats the point of using the GPL. I

Re: license of cstex / cslatex

2006-05-26 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 26 May 2006 00:05:09 -0400 Joe Smith wrote: Thomas Esser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [...] Questions: - is it valid to refer to GPL and add such severe restrictions in an appendix? It is legal AFAIK (IANAL), but is relly poor form. I don't agree. It may be

Re: license of cstex / cslatex

2006-05-26 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 26 May 2006 13:53:52 +0200 Frank Küster wrote: Joe Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Also it makes the work GPL-incompatible, which kindof defeats the point of using the GPL. I also thought about this. But isn't it de-facto GPL-compatible: Once you've renamed it, you can do

PHP license style [was: Re: licenses with name changing clauses]

2006-05-26 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 26 May 2006 13:41:16 +0100 MJ Ray wrote: =?iso-8859-1?q?Frank_K=FCster?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] While we're at it, there's a different issue in teTeX and TeXLive for which I'd like to have some advice from -legal. ukhyphen.tex has now a supposedly free license, but it has a broader