Re: LiDIA's statement of GPL only in mailing list archives

2007-07-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Don Armstrong: On Mon, 09 Jul 2007, Florian Weimer wrote: * Don Armstrong: On Sun, 08 Jul 2007, Ben Finney wrote: An email has been judged sufficient for many Debian packages, if it unambiguously specifies all of the above, and is clearly from the copyright holder. Copy and paste

Re: LiDIA's statement of GPL only in mailing list archives

2007-07-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Florian Weimer wrote: * Don Armstrong: On Mon, 09 Jul 2007, Florian Weimer wrote: * Don Armstrong: On Sun, 08 Jul 2007, Ben Finney wrote: An email has been judged sufficient for many Debian packages, if it unambiguously specifies all of the above, and is clearly

Volunteer brickbat thrower needed in London (Tuesday 24th 6pm)

2007-07-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Quoting http://ossg.bcs.org/2007/07/24/: The Open Source Specialist Group (OSSG) will be holding an interactive event on Tuesday 24th July 2007 over a proposal to create a British Computer Society (BCS) Open Source Licence. Obviously this is a very bad idea. To make the point against

Re: [sdcc-devel] Licensing and building from real source

2007-07-11 Thread Bas Wijnen
Hello, First of all, I'm CCing the debian-legal mailing list for opinions on the license issues. Debian-legal people: please ignore the building stuff at the end of the mail. On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:55:30PM +0200, Borut Razem wrote: In doc/readme, it says: License: SDCC is

Re: FYI, re `BCS OS Licence'

2007-07-11 Thread MJ Ray
[Added FSFE-UK to CC] Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting http://ossg.bcs.org/2007/07/24/: [...] Obviously this is a very bad idea. [...] A Debian Developer would be a natural choice and would have good standing to informally expand (on their on behalf) on such statements. Would

Re: [sdcc-devel] Licensing and building from real source

2007-07-11 Thread Michael Below
Hi, Am Mi 11 Jul 2007 13:07:03 CEST schrieb Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The AS assemblers and the ASLINK relocating linker are placed in the Public Domain. Publication or distribution of these programs for non-commercial use is hereby granted with the

OGRE contributor license agreement

2007-07-11 Thread Andres Mejia
Hello, It's required that this license agreement be filled out and submitted by anyone submitting patches upstream. http://www.ogre3d.org/downloads/licensing.txt Could this be a problem? -- Regards, Andres Mejia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: OGRE contributor license agreement

2007-07-11 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Andres Mejia dies 11/07/2007 hora 12:43: It's required that this license agreement be filled out and submitted by anyone submitting patches upstream. That's like with the FSF, I suppose. Nothing forces you to submit them anything, so that is orthogonal to freeness of the code. Quickly,

Re: [sdcc-devel] Licensing and building from real source

2007-07-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 01:53:58PM +0200, Michael Below wrote: Am Mi 11 Jul 2007 13:07:03 CEST schrieb Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The AS assemblers and the ASLINK relocating linker are placed in the Public Domain. Publication or distribution of these

Re: OGRE contributor license agreement

2007-07-11 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Andres! You wrote: It's required that this license agreement be filled out and submitted by anyone submitting patches upstream. http://www.ogre3d.org/downloads/licensing.txt Could this be a problem? No. The agreement is simply to make sure that the upstream author can include the

Re: OGRE contributor license agreement

2007-07-11 Thread Andres Mejia
On 7/11/07, Bas Zoetekouw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. The agreement is simply to make sure that the upstream author can include the patches in the (LGPLed) upstream source. As long as one is allowed to modify the source also without sending the patch upstream, everything should be fine.

Re: [sdcc-devel] Licensing and building from real source

2007-07-11 Thread Michael Below
Steve Langasek schrieb: On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 01:53:58PM +0200, Michael Below wrote: Am Mi 11 Jul 2007 13:07:03 CEST schrieb Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The AS assemblers and the ASLINK relocating linker are placed in the Public Domain. Publication or