Rejected Package - Licence question

2006-07-10 Thread Andreas Fester
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the package for the new upstream version of synopsis (http://synopsis.fresco.org/) which I created was rejected: rejected, your debian/copyright misses information. The manual has a different one than the rest. And at least Manual.texi looks

name changing clauses, again

2006-07-10 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, I'm trying to understand how to interpret DFSG clause 4, in particular under circumstances where the name of a file also encodes its purpose or usage or any other kind of API. I tried to read the old discussions about the LPPL, and it seems to me that one of the major obstacles of the old

Re: Rejected Package - Licence question

2006-07-10 Thread Frank Küster
Andreas Fester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An earlier version of the package is already in Debian and it also contains the file Manual.texi with the same copyright information, but the file was only in the source package while the new version now contains a -doc package which allows to install

Re: Rejected Package - Licence question

2006-07-10 Thread Andrew Saunders
On 7/10/06, Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you fail, well, I fear there is currently no license for documentation that has been approved by -legal. Actually, the MIT license[1] covers documentation: --- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of

Re: Rejected Package - Licence question

2006-07-10 Thread Frank Küster
Andrew Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/10/06, Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you fail, well, I fear there is currently no license for documentation that has been approved by -legal. Actually, the MIT license[1] covers documentation: --- Permission is hereby granted, free

Re: Twinkle 0.8 encorporates iLBC code

2006-07-10 Thread Michel de Boer
Hi Mark, As you recommended, I have removed the ilbc code from Twinkle. So you don't have to strip out the code for Debian anymore. It is still possible to use ilbc with Twinkle if you want, but you'd have to install the ilbc library for that and build Twinkle against that library. This way

Re: Copyright grants for fonts?

2006-07-10 Thread Robinson Tryon
I still haven't found a license from Adobe for the Times font, so I will contact the upstream xfree86 maintainers and go from there. I'll post a followup once I have more information. -- Robinson Tryon On 7/5/06, Robinson Tryon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Henri Sivonen wrote: On Jun 27, 2006,

Re: Rejected Package - Licence question

2006-07-10 Thread Ben Finney
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you fail, well, I fear there is currently no license for documentation that has been approved by -legal. More precisely, there is no license specifically designed to apply only to documents, as opposed to other types of software, that has been approved