Re: "all rights reserved" and GPL

2007-06-28 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 12:13:04PM +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > // Copyright (C) 2007, Company X. All rights reserved. > > 1) Is the usage of "All rights reserved" appropriate when a file is > being licensed under the GPL, or in fact under whatever license? No. > 2) What is the purpose of

Re: "all rights reserved" and GPL

2007-06-28 Thread ajdlinux
On 6/28/07, Shriramana Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello. In the license header of a source file being licensed under the GPL, there must be a copyright notice. Sometimes I see the usage of "All rights reserved" in that notice: // Copyright (C) 2007, Company X. All rights reserved. 1) Is

Re: "all rights reserved" and GPL

2007-06-28 Thread Nic Suzor
Hi, On 6/28/07, Shriramana Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello. In the license header of a source file being licensed under the GPL, there must be a copyright notice. Sometimes I see the usage of "All rights reserved" in that notice: // Copyright (C) 2007, Company X. All rights reserved.

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

2007-06-28 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Shriramana Sharma wrote: The project developers want to distribute a single set of source files under both the licenses. They don't want to have to maintain two different directories with two different versions of the same files with merely the license headers differing. Please examine the at

"all rights reserved" and GPL

2007-06-28 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Hello. In the license header of a source file being licensed under the GPL, there must be a copyright notice. Sometimes I see the usage of "All rights reserved" in that notice: // Copyright (C) 2007, Company X. All rights reserved. 1) Is the usage of "All rights reserved" appropriate when a fi

Re: Clickthrough for GPL

2007-06-28 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think it's really just that installer software like InstallShield > have a EULA page by default, and the authors/Win32 packagers decide > to display the GPL in there. It's not so much of an issue for NSIS > as it's more flexible, but I think it's ju

Re: Clickthrough for GPL

2007-06-28 Thread ajdlinux
On 6/29/07, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The problem comes when the installer refuses to install the work without receiving acceptance of the GPL; this goes against what the license says (i.e. that even a person who says "no" to such a question has the right to install and use the work.

Re: Clickthrough for GPL

2007-06-28 Thread Ben Finney
"Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I realise it probably doesn't make much of a difference if the GPL > is in a clickthrough, since as I understand it, you don't need to > agree to the GPL to use the software, and clickthrough agreements > are probably almost always impossible

Re: Copyright verification needed

2007-06-28 Thread ajdlinux
On 6/28/07, Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, the project team was thinking about something like an 'advertising-special-exception-whatever-clause'. Something acceptable is a such direction by sirs FSF, GPL and others ? ;-( As Josselin pointed out, anything with Qt and OpenSSL

Re: Copyright verification needed

2007-06-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 28 juin 2007 à 10:24 +0200, Bruno Costacurta a écrit : > > AFAICS you can use it legally if you port it to GNUTLS. > - the actual code implemented a strong separation layer between OpenSSL and > Qt > (review of code can be made by independent party) thus licenses should not be > mixed

Re: Copyright verification needed

2007-06-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 26 juin 2007 à 00:48 +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : > On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:06:58 +0200 Josselin Mouette wrote: > > This is a bit more complicated. The QPL is DFSG-free, but only if you > > don't apply section #6 > > This is equivalent to saying that software solely released under the Q

Clickthrough for GPL

2007-06-28 Thread Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso
I have seen a few Windows apps putting the GPL on a clickthrough agreement, particularly those that use the Nullsoft installer. The Debian Windows installer from goodbye-windows.com (or perhaps goodbye-microsoft.com) comes to mind as such an example. I realise it probably doesn't make much of a d

Re: DPL's view of debian-legal (was: Debian Trademarks Summary)

2007-06-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 27 juin 2007 à 17:38 +0100, Anthony Towns a écrit : > I think MJ Ray's contributions to -legal and SPI actively discourage > other people from contributing That's true, most of his posts save me a lot of time because I don't have to bother writing things he already explained much bette

Re: Copyright verification needed

2007-06-28 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Thursday 28 June 2007 10:28:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 6/28/07, Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > porting to GnuTLS is something we'll avoid. > > > > About the issues mentioned before, I can answer and propose : > > > > - the actual code implemented a strong separ

slepc license

2007-06-28 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi, I would like to package SLEPc eigenvalue solvers[0] into non-free, the license is below. There is a line "A modified version of the software cannot be redistributed". The debian package can be built without modificating the upstream sources though, so my question is, can it go into non-free?

Re: DPL's view of debian-legal (was: Debian Trademarks Summary)

2007-06-28 Thread MJ Ray
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Gosh, what fun it is to trade pointless insults on a mailing list. I feared that was your view. Roll on list-admins. [...] > This was, of course, more than you ever did to help define a trademark > policy, which consisted of complaining that nobod

Re: Copyright verification needed

2007-06-28 Thread ajdlinux
On 6/28/07, Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, porting to GnuTLS is something we'll avoid. About the issues mentioned before, I can answer and propose : - the actual code implemented a strong separation layer between OpenSSL and Qt (review of code can be made by independent par

Re: Copyright verification needed

2007-06-28 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Wednesday 27 June 2007 09:51:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 6/27/07, Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gentlemen, thanks a lot for your attention and discussion. > > > > Can we come to a conclusion ? > > Shall I simply abandon at this stage any plan to package this application >