Re: Request for suggestions of DFSG-free documentation licences

2007-05-23 Thread MJ Ray
Shriramana Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: I remember reading that the GFDL is not DFSG-free (due to some clauses regarding invariant sections or something) so I would like to know what is a DFSG-free license for documentation, since a project I am working on wants to license its

Re: Programs made by teenagers

2007-05-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 23 May 2007, Miriam Ruiz wrote: I might package a game created by a teenager, so I wanted to make sure that the fact thas she's minor wouldn't be a problem. I don't know if she has right to license what she does, or it must be her parents, or something like that. Any thoughts on this?

Re: help with crafting proper license header for a dual-licensing project

2007-05-23 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shriramana Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes As many people have pointed out, I realize I should be saying proprietary when I used the word commercial. I also realize that the GPL does not preclude commercial == for profit usage. I was merely echoing the terminology

Re: (C) vs ©

2007-05-23 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Giacomo A. Catenazzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Ben Finney wrote: Shriramana Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have heard that in copyright declarations like: Copyright (C) 2007, Company X, Country Y. All rights reserved. --- it is incorrect to use (C) in

Re: Can a font with an unfree character be free?

2007-05-23 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Mon, 14 May 2007, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 5/14/07, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering the fact that the actual symbol is a white wheelchair on a blue background, it's not clear that a black font would be

Re: License-Question (expanded GPL)

2007-05-23 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cord Beermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi. I want to add a package to Debian with the following License-Statement: The Simple PHP Blog is released under the GNU Public License. It's the GNU *General*

Re: (C) vs ©

2007-05-23 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Giacomo A. Catenazzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben Finney wrote: [the (C) sequence is] possibly not a valid copyright indicator. The © symbol is unambiguous under the law, and thus preferred. unambiguous under the law, but

Re: (C) vs ©

2007-05-23 Thread Ben Finney
Anthony W. Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben Finney writes: Giacomo A. Catenazzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What character encoding should be used? The same encoding as the rest of the file. And if that encoding is 7-bit ascii ??? Copyright law allows for two copyright symbols: the