mined copyright with no copyright

2008-03-25 Thread Mauro Lizaur
Hi all, I intended to do a qa upload to fix some bugs on the package mined [0] which is orphaned[1], and i got a lintian warning about the file debian/copyright where it has no copyright holder, when i asked to the upstream maintainer of this issue he answered me this [2] also i asked in

Re: Falcon P.L. license (ITP:Bug#460591)

2008-03-25 Thread MJ Ray
Giancarlo Niccolai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The license is tightly based on Apache 2, with extra clarifications and permissions. [...] Summary: I believe that any interpreter under this Falcon P.L. licence will contaminate other software and so fail DFSG 9. Also, I think the licence

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-25 Thread MJ Ray
Sean Kellogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 19 March 2008 03:10:07 pm Francesco Poli wrote: I don't think that copyright laws give you the right to control distribution of Scripts, that is to say, works written in your programming language. [...] There's even the question of how

Re: mined copyright with no copyright

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Below
Hi, Am Di 25 Mär 2008 03:07:24 CET schrieb Mauro Lizaur [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I intended to do a qa upload to fix some bugs on the package mined [0] which is orphaned[1], and i got a lintian warning about the file debian/copyright where it has no copyright holder, when i asked to the upstream

Re: mined copyright with no copyright

2008-03-25 Thread Ben Finney
Mauro Lizaur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I intended to do a qa upload to fix some bugs on the package mined [0] which is orphaned[1], and i got a lintian warning about the file debian/copyright where it has no copyright holder, Rather, that the copyright holder is not identified. when i asked

Re: mined copyright with no copyright

2008-03-25 Thread Mauro Lizaur
Hi All, I got a reply to the post on comp.os.minix about mined: --- Jan-Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I remember Michiel writing it. In the Netherlands you don't need to claim copyright, it comes from writing it. However in this case, Andy payed (100 guilders if I remember correctly) for mined,

Re: mined copyright with no copyright

2008-03-25 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Mauro Lizaur wrote: I remember Michiel writing it. In the Netherlands you don't need to claim copyright, it comes from writing it. However in this case, Andy payed (100 guilders if I remember correctly) for mined, so that would make it a work for hire. Please note that work for hire in

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-25 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Walter Landry wrote: Giancarlo Niccolai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In example, I can release Falcon as a Debian package under GPL, and let users pick FPLL if they wish. That would be perfect. Many other programs in Debian are dual-licensed in

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-25 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MJ Ray wrote: Sean Kellogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 19 March 2008 03:10:07 pm Francesco Poli wrote: I don't think that copyright laws give you the right to control distribution of Scripts, that is to say, works written in your

Re: Bug#460591: Falcon P.L. license (ITP:Bug#460591)

2008-03-25 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MJ Ray wrote: Giancarlo Niccolai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The license is tightly based on Apache 2, with extra clarifications and permissions. [...] Summary: I believe that any interpreter under this Falcon P.L. licence will contaminate

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-25 Thread Walter Landry
Giancarlo Niccolai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Walter Landry wrote: Giancarlo Niccolai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In example, I can release Falcon as a Debian package under GPL, and let users pick FPLL if they wish. That would be perfect. Many other programs in Debian are dual-licensed in