Re: [Fwd: Debian and CDDL and DFSG]

2006-08-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The venue could make significant difference here, because the licensor could be terribly wrong in one jurisdiction and correct in another. That's a problem with choice of law, not choice of venue. Furthermore you can hadly measure whether the licensor

Re: public domain?

2006-08-10 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Hi again, Upstream has agreed to add a license file to the tgz archive: This program is totally free and public domain. Do what you want to do with the source code. If you want, just give me some credits (Michel Louvet) if you port the game on another platform or use part of the source code.

Re: public domain?

2006-08-10 Thread Andrew Donnellan
Seems to be. In my previous reply I was actually assuming you had that info in writing, not just an email. But this seems to be OK. On 8/10/06, Miriam Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, Upstream has agreed to add a license file to the tgz archive: This program is totally free and

Creative Commons 3.0 Public draft -- news and questions

2006-08-10 Thread Evan Prodromou
So, I have big news and a big question. Big news Creative Commons has announced the public draft of the next version of their license suite: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/6017 The changes from the 2.x version are largely due to an effort to make the licenses compatible with

Re: Creative Commons 3.0 Public draft -- news and questions

2006-08-10 Thread Weakish Jiang
Evan Prodromou wrote: Creative Commons has announced the public draft of the next version of their license suite: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/6017 Big question The main question I want to ask debian-legal is this: Does the anti-DRM requirement

Re: Creative Commons 3.0 Public draft -- news and questions

2006-08-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main question I want to ask debian-legal is this: Does the anti-DRM requirement in the CCPL 3.0 draft, without a parallel distribution proviso, make it incompatible with the DFSG? I see no reason to believe that the DFSG forbids such a clause.

Re: Creative Commons 3.0 Public draft -- news and questions

2006-08-10 Thread Evan Prodromou
On Thu, 2006-10-08 at 11:26 -0400, Evan Prodromou wrote: GR 2006-01 says, in part, I accidentally quoted a section from an option of the GR that didn't pass. Sorry about that. I don't think the mistake invalidates the discussion, but I wanted to point it out. ~Evan -- Evan Prodromou [EMAIL

Re: Creative Commons 3.0 Public draft -- news and questions

2006-08-10 Thread Ken Arromdee
1. Was GR 2006-01 an exception to the DFSG, or a clarification of our principles? Consider an analogy. An amusement park ride puts up a sign saying that kids must be 4 feet tall to enter. A little while later, it declares that kids must be allowed in if they're 47 inches, and