Re: Is ISC License considered DFSG free?

2016-10-21 Thread Andrew Shadura
On 21/10/16 11:31, Jari Aalto wrote: > The agrep software is currently in non-free. Latest code > appears to have moved under ISC License[1] and I'd like to know > if the code can now be moved to main. Yes. -- Cheers, Andrew

Re: C-FSL: a new license for software from elstel.org

2016-01-29 Thread Andrew Shadura
On 29 January 2016 at 11:04, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: > I mean the original ancient vim license of the times before GPLv2+. But as you see they moved on from that. And for good reasons. -- Cheers, Andrew

Re: jmapviewer: bing logo

2014-10-17 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On 16 October 2014 21:51, Riley Baird bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch wrote: Not really. It's possible to use a web browser or a media player only for free content, and if you don't, you have specifically chosen to do so. Same here. You may trace any other tiles if

Re: Re: jmapviewer: bing logo

2014-10-16 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On 16 October 2014 07:22, Felix Natter fnat...@gmx.net wrote: Sorry but I've worked ~2 years on the freeplane package for it to be in jessie/main, und we're ~2 weeks from the jessie freeze, so if including the logo is DFSG compliant then that is enough for me. = So I see two

Re: jmapviewer: bing logo

2014-10-16 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello Ian, On 16 October 2014 01:56, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: Another possibility would be to have the program download the logo itself from the Bing website somewhere, along with the Bing map data, when the Bing option is used, but such a thing ought to be in

Re: Trilinos licensing

2014-03-17 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:42:54 -0400 Richard Fontana rfont...@redhat.com wrote: (and wow, I've missed that for years, thanks, Richard) You might like my FOSDEM 2014 talk on license compatibility or some parts of it at least. There's an amusing moment where I am informed that Ian

Oracle Java

2013-09-27 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, As far as I remember, a license change for the non-free Oracle Java some time ago made in non-redistributable by Linux distributions. However, news say Raspbian now includes Oracle Java [1]. I wonder: has anything changed in Oracle Java licensing, or is it just an exception Oracle made

license advice

2013-04-08 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, There's a project which isn't free software nor is it open-source (as they haven't found a monetisation model which would allow them to open the sources), but they'd like be able to have it in non-free section. They've asked me to give them ideas on what to change in their current EULA to

Re: license advice

2013-04-08 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 08:57:48 +0800 Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: The only requirements for non-free are that Debian, our mirrors and CD distributors can distribute the software. Since it is pretty easy to become a Debian mirror or CD distributor and anyone can do it, that means