Re: conquer relicensing

2006-10-10 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Michael Poole wrote: Arnoud Engelfriet writes: However I didn't see a signature in the text file. Only the guy's name. At least in the US, the relevant law (why I mentioned affirmative acts) is what make click-through agreements binding -- the act of clicking is the user's electronic

Re: conquer relicensing

2006-10-10 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Juan M. Mendez wrote: Being completely reworks for the game, could it be safe to relicense version 4, no matter what Adam did with version 5? If version 4 and version 5 have competely different codebases and were written by different people, then the author of version 4 can do whatever he

Re: compatibility of bsd and gpl

2006-10-10 Thread Markus Laire
On 10/9/06, Arnoud Engelfriet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Wala wrote: Is clause 3 of the BSD license (The name of the author...) GPL-compatible? Yes, because GPL article 1 has a corresponding requirement. So there is no conflict in licensing terms, and therefore you can release the whole

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in source packages

2006-10-10 Thread Simon Josefsson
Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bug #390664 inspired me to look in source packages for IETF RFC/I-D's too, and the situation seem to be more problematic. I've put a list of packages in testing (as of a few days ago, my mirror is slow) that appear to contain IETF RFC or I-D's at:

Re: Why TPM+Parallel Distribution is non-free

2006-10-10 Thread Terry Hancock
Francesco Poli wrote: On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 21:45:46 -0500 Terry Hancock wrote: So, are you asserting that if the CCPL3.0 included an allowance to distribute TPM'd files, so long as the key necessary to apply TPM to modified works based on the non-TPM'd version were publically available (or

Re: compatibility of bsd and gpl

2006-10-10 Thread Lewis Jardine
Markus Laire wrote: On 10/9/06, Arnoud Engelfriet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Wala wrote: Is clause 3 of the BSD license (The name of the author...) GPL-compatible? Yes, because GPL article 1 has a corresponding requirement. I don't see any such requirement in GPLv2[1] article 1: I

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in source packages

2006-10-10 Thread Gervase Markham
Simon Josefsson wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/NonFreeIETFDocuments A useful thing to add to that page would be simple instructions on how those authoring IETF documents could make them available under a DFSG-free licence (presumably in parallel to the IETF one) - perhaps some sample

Re: Why TPM+Parallel Distribution is non-free

2006-10-10 Thread Terry Hancock
MJ Ray wrote: Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The case has been made that CCPL3.0 is DFSG-non-free because it does not allow the distribution of content in TPM'd format[0]. I assert that not only is this argument false, it is actually reversed: allowing TPM distribution, even with

Re: Why TPM+Parallel Distribution is non-free

2006-10-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Terry Hancock wrote: Prohibiting TPM *distribution* is fine under DFSG. No, it's not. Prohibiting TPM distribution is quite clearly a restriction on a field of endeavor. This is exactly what the Aug 9 draft of CCPL3.0 says: You may not impose any technological measures