Re: Vim's user manual bug closed: reopen?

2006-09-18 Thread MJ Ray
Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] I noticed that bug #384019 has been recently closed. [...] The bug was closed because an FTP-master (James Troup) stated that the Open Publication License v1.0 without options is fine for main. [...] What should be done, in your opinion? Should the bug be

Re: Vim's user manual bug closed: reopen?

2006-09-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What should be done, in your opinion? Nothing. The ftpmasters decide what is free or not, not you, not I, not debian-legal as a whole (?). -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-18 Thread Markus Laire
On 9/16/06, Markus Laire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just reported a bug for this. Hopefully I didn't make any mistakes and it'll eventually show up in bugs.debian.org It's bug #387783 At http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=387783 -- Markus Laire -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Generating VST headers

2006-09-18 Thread Free Ekanayaka
|--== Javier Serrano Polo writes: JSP En/na Free Ekanayaka ha escrit: JSP I should warn you. You won't be the first one trying this. Others have JSP already failed, including me. It sounds rather scaring :( JSP Considering the guy who was making the Ubuntu package failed, I don't

Re: kernel firmwares: GR proposal

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 01:57:31AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: snip At least we actually have the source for the acenic code, even though we don't have a free license for it. Euh, no, it is a binary-only firmware blob last i checked, but i may be wrong. Yes, but the

Re: Vim's user manual bug closed: reopen?

2006-09-18 Thread Joe Smith
Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What should be done, in your opinion? Nothing. The ftpmasters decide what is free or not, not you, not I, not debian-legal as a whole (?). Well you can check with the particular ftp masters and

[PATCH] fix debburn/cdrkit GPL violation

2006-09-18 Thread Albert Cahalan
This patch assumes that we accept that Joerg#1 has released cdrecord under the GPL. The only other alternative is to immediately wipe out the whole subversion repository and start over with a clean copy, from 2004 I suppose. I also removed a bit of slander directed at various Linux kernel

Re: Review of a pseudo licence statement

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
posted mailed Alexis Sukrieh wrote: [Please CC me, I'm not subscribed] Hi, I intent to package[1] the Perl module libnet-amazon-s3-perl (because it's needed by the package backup-manager). 1: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=368734 The problem is that the copyright

www.d.o waiting for DPL and SPI? (was Re: Vim's user manual bug closed: reopen?

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
MJ Ray wrote: By the way, in http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-vim-maintainers/2006-August/003211.html the DPL criticises debian-legal for not yet tidying up the copyright bugs of www.d.o - which is something we were waiting for the DPL+SPI to decide since 2005-10. Bizarre. Time

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

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
MJ Ray wrote: Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where's the cc-nl lead's explanation? It's something. http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2006-August/003876.html Hope that helps, It really does help a lot. in any case i do not think (and that judgment was shared by a

Re: Copyright in public domain package

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
posted mailed Michael Hanke wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 11:35:54AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Michael Hanke [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Please keep me CC'ed, I'm not subscribed. ] [...] I talked to upstream and they replaced those statement with something like the following to make their software

Re: Changing license

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Patryk Cisek wrote: Hello, I'm packaging Kadu program (www.kadu.net) for Debian and Ubuntu right now. There's a problem with Kadu's license (GPLv2 or later), which conflicts OpenSSL's license. When project started, upstream authors where not aware of the conflict, so they didn't add a

Re: Changing license

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Daniel Baumann wrote: Patryk Cisek wrote: license? Well, they have rights to their patches, but copyright holder for Kadu is Kadu Team (http://www.kadu.net/wiki/index.php/English:Authors). Could someone, please, clarify this? For license changes, the copyright holder(s) are the important

Re: Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
posted mailed Anon Sricharoenchai wrote: Package: libmms Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 According to, http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xine-develm=107261185004445w=2 , since they can't find where to contact the author of majormms, either in majormms website,

Re: Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
posted mailed Loïc Minier wrote (in bug 330355): I'm happy you took the time to verify this for Ubuntu. I did a quick search in the xine-devel archive between 2004-01 and 2005-09 confirming: - the announcement of the relicensing process - confirmation that most persons, including Major

Re: Ccosket bsd+source license

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Joey Hess wrote: znc contains a Csocket file with this license. I wonder if the requirement that source code must be made available for no more than a nominal fee is acceptable. Yes, it is: it just means source code must not be significantly more expensive than binary code, which is

Re: [PATCH] fix debburn/cdrkit GPL violation

2006-09-18 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:16:18 -0400 Albert Cahalan wrote: This patch assumes that we accept that Joerg#1 has released cdrecord under the GPL. The only other alternative is to immediately wipe out the whole subversion repository and start over with a clean copy, from 2004 I suppose. I also

Re: Copyright in public domain package

2006-09-18 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:40:40 -0400 Nathanael Nerode wrote: [...] On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 11:35:54AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: [...] Please ask them to use a MIT/X11-like licence or similar liberal terms. MJ, MIT/Expat is usually preferred to MIT/X11 here. :-) I don't remember why; I think

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Aug 31, Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marco trolled again. FYI, no serious person disagrees with this interpretation. Except every other distribution, which usually retain real lawyers to advise them

Re: Copyright in public domain package

2006-09-18 Thread Ben Finney
Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MIT/Expat is usually preferred to MIT/X11 here. :-) I don't remember why; I think it's more liberal. It also has the advantage of being (currently) an unambiguous way to refer to the specific license terms; the terms of the Expat license has only one

Re: Vim's user manual bug closed: reopen?

2006-09-18 Thread Walter Landry
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] I noticed that bug #384019 has been recently closed. [...] The bug was closed because an FTP-master (James Troup) stated that the Open Publication License v1.0 without options is fine for main. [...] What should be done, in

Apache v2.0 and LGPL

2006-09-18 Thread James Westby
Hi, I have what I believe will be a fairly simple question (at least I hope so). I am looking at packaging mod_gnutls, a work that is under the Apache Software License v2.0, and links against GnuTLS, which is under the LGPL, 2.1 or later. I have seen that there is a little concern over Apache