Re: GR proposal: the AGPL does not meet the DFSG (take 2)

2009-11-17 Thread Bill Allombert
I moved the discussion to debian-vote where it belongs. (please CC me). On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 06:05:25PM +, Mike Hommey wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:45:25PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: Again, this is not the language that the AGPL uses. It requires that your modified version

Are debian/ubuntu distributions commercial applications from a legal point of view?

2009-11-17 Thread Laszlo Lebrun
Do you know about any jurisprudence about that question? Thank you Laszlo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Are debian/ubuntu distributions commercial applications from a legal point of view?

2009-11-17 Thread MJ Ray
Laszlo Lebrun wrote: Do you know about any jurisprudence about that question? I'm pretty sure that commercial applications in legal use means something different to commercial software applications, so I'd say that the act of distribution itself is sometimes a commercial application. I'm not

Re: Skype/Facebook trademark logos in Debian packages

2009-11-17 Thread Eion Robb
I believe repacking upstream tarball to exclude logos is the way to go. You'll also want to remove the MSN/AIM/etc logos from Pidgin/Empathy/etc too, since they obviously fall into the same legal grey area. Unless they're considered fair use then everything should be good to go.

Re: Are debian/ubuntu distributions commercial applications from a legal point of view?

2009-11-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:48:43PM +, MJ Ray wrote: Laszlo Lebrun wrote: Do you know about any jurisprudence about that question? According to David A. Wheeler, the US Department of Defense has recognised FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) as being on the same basis as Commercial

GPL versions mismatch.

2009-11-17 Thread Raúl Sánchez Siles
Hello: The couple of guys maintaining KVIrc package this is, Kai and me, reckoned recently of a GPL version mismatch between the licence intended to apply to the whole project and the version which each source file is licensed under. We overlooked this problem for some time until the