Re: Question about GPL and CC-BY SA 3.0

2015-02-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
living in both countries). Bernhard R. Link -- F8AC 04D5 0B9B 064B 3383 C3DA AFFC 96D1 151D FFDC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Re: Public Domain again

2013-02-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
not understood it and thus leaving us with no proper license. (Though there are situations where it might not be that contradictionary, as it could also be the work's former copyright). Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: dissident test has been proven wrong and should not be used any more

2012-09-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
. The tests are just a method to make people not look to much at the letter but at the spirit of the DFSG to distinguish some pure theoretical issues from real world issues, i.e. to bring some saneness into the discussion. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ

Re: dissident test has been proven wrong and should not be used any more

2012-09-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
as being exactly [your] position is me trying to say that we need the dissident test. (And I hope noone gets DD who has not looked at it.) Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: dissident test has been proven wrong and should not be used any more

2012-09-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
this test can be used for. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120924165915.ga18...@client.brlink.eu

Re: Java3D license incompatible with DFSG?

2012-09-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
the usage, what does it matter whether it was designed or intended for that case? Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120916075836

Re: Java3D license incompatible with DFSG?

2012-09-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
as the second is obviously true, there is no cost in acknowledging it). Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120915112550.ga28

Re: trademark in documents

2012-08-10 Thread Bernhard R. Link
they do not and so on). I guess this means that if my map have that logo then my map is not free, i cant add it to Debian free packages. As long as the logo itself is under a free license and your map does not misuse any trademarks, I see no problem.. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Non-free postscript code in EPS image

2012-08-05 Thread Bernhard R. Link
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Re: Non-free postscript code in EPS image

2012-07-31 Thread Bernhard R. Link
verbatimly and for specific purposes, but the limits are quite absurd and I'm not sure it even gives permission to distribute for all the stuff you find in some postscript files). Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: meaning license statement

2012-06-05 Thread Bernhard R. Link
problem. Thus: Bernhard R. Link, 2012-06-04 11:05+0200 (gmane.linux.debian.devel.legal): So it has no meaning to anyone else and for the US government it is about rules set by thatself, so this should not not be a problem for Debian at all. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: meaning license statement

2012-06-04 Thread Bernhard R. Link
? What do you mean with removed exactly? The statement itself is of course not to be removed from the file. For the file itself you need a license grant, just like for any other file you want to copy and distribute. Without that you cannot. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: No source code for wesnoth-musicg

2012-04-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
is is answered in a way that that is the source (or would be the source if it existed in case you allow conditional definitions). Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: libidn re-license

2012-03-09 Thread Bernhard R. Link
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Re: copyright law wackyness

2011-12-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Paul Wise p...@debian.org [111223 06:51]: I read an extraordinary claim about the GPL on IRC and during the ensuing discussions I discovered a couple of countries with unusual copyright law. In Slovakia apparently license grants have to be in writing, meaning most software licenses have no

Re: copyright law wackyness

2011-12-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de [111225 18:30]: Germany has the same problem, I think, because in order to protect authors from distributors (which are often quasi-monopolistic), there are limits to what license grants authors can make. As a result, a similar situation could theoretically

Re: a Free Platform License?

2011-11-30 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Hugo Roy h...@fsfe.org [29 18:13]: Le mardi 29 novembre 2011 à 17:38 +0100, Bernhard R. Link a écrit : Say I have a blog, that is created by some software. Assume that software contains AGPL code. Am I allowed to run a server that only serves my blog without paying for anything

Re: a Free Platform License?

2011-11-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
to share modifications to software if I am not allowed to run it? Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2029142653.ga15

Re: a Free Platform License?

2011-11-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
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Re: a Free Platform License?

2011-11-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
you run your computer then this is a severe limitation on modification not having any positive effect to justify it. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Comments regarding rhash_1.2.5-1_amd64.changes

2011-06-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
it in the files makes it easier for people (and some people might grep for Copyright but not for written by.) Bernhard R. Link [1] There might be one or two obscure countries left in the world where it is needed for copyright protection and in some other countries it might make some

Re: Bug#628952: minidlna: Possible unknown copyright status of hardcoded image blobs in source code

2011-06-06 Thread Bernhard R. Link
that have historically high requirements on creativity for work to be protected (as the general needs creativity rule has to be lifted for software in order to have any commercial software to be eligible) Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: How to use (free!) sources of other projects without copyright/license information in file?

2011-05-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
speakers like me evidence is stuff good enough for court, which is far to strong here.). And having stuff marked as being from other sources is a very clear indication there might be at least some copyright line missing and very likely also a license. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: NASA Open Source Agreement

2011-04-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
legislation[1]. The same situation like if some author is dead long enough for one legislation but not long enough for another, then the work can be public domain in some parts of the world and not public domain in other parts of the world. Bernhard R. Link [1] Berne has recipocity

Re: scientific paper in package only in postscript form non-free?

2011-03-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
to it, it definitely is not source in any meaning useful to interpret the DFSG. And while postscript can be nice hand-written source, dvips generated postscript code is usually the exact opposite and most of the time even too opaque to even make trivial changes. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: DEP5: Public domain works

2011-01-20 Thread Bernhard R. Link
statements like that. From what I understand it might be possible that one day the US goverment decides it wants to sue someone copying things like that outside the US and might win in court. Bernhard R. Link [1] Except in countries that do not protect works that are not protected

Re: NASA CDF

2010-12-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Teemu Ikonen tpiko...@gmail.com [101212 20:15]: On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org wrote: * Aaron M. Ucko a...@alum.mit.edu [101210 20:36]: The conclusion I draw from the threads above is that the license above is DFSG-free. I agree with you

Re: NASA CDF

2010-12-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
into the public domain Only in the US. They still own the copyright for the rest of the world. (And then I think they can buy stuff not produced by themselves and that is not even public domain in the US). Bernhard R. Link -- Never contain programs so few bugs, as when no debugging tools

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100416093639.ga7...@pcpool00.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de

Re: Distribution of media content together with GPLv2 code in one package?

2010-04-05 Thread Bernhard R. Link
usually accept the perl script unless it is consciously obfuscated). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100405162043

Re: Distributing Debian derivative

2010-03-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
, thus having more build-dependencies than needed for only building the core packages... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Distributing Debian derivative

2010-03-22 Thread Bernhard R. Link
packages to everyone asking for those). That would suffice if everything in there would GPLv2. I guess except perhaps some advertise-clauses of some old BSD like licenses that should be the hardest part. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ

Re: re module and old Python 1.6 (GPL incompatible) license?

2009-07-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
'forgot' to update individual files, which should be fixable easily) or there is noone with this right, then any claim in the LICENSE file to grant an additional license for this file would be known false thus not useable. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Never contain programs so few bugs

Re: Sapphire.cpp -- Gpl compatible? DFSG-free?

2009-04-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
in Germany. Is there any citation for that? I've not yet seen any evidence or hint of an evidence why a German cannot give an maximal permissive license by talking about putting it into public domain. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
the problem is less severe with documentation than with programs, as translating to text and reformating is often not that big a loss for documentation. But I think in most cases only a .pdf is still to hard to change to call it free. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
possible with the pdf, then it can be OK in my eyes. But as I said, I think in most cases that is simply not the case. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Missing licenses in upstream source files

2009-03-20 Thread Bernhard R. Link
code that every search engine shows you is copied from somewhere else, but you do not know where it origins from or if it actually has a free license, things get ugly... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link [1] like sources with different coding style, or code and other things like images

Re: Short copyright notice in script file

2009-03-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
are public domain in the USA but one of the recent discussions showed they are not public domain outside. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: License issue on tiny Javascript fragment

2009-02-09 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net [090209 05:39]: On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote: 1) The safe way: See what it does, describe someone else not knowing the code to write code doing this for you and use that code. Does that actually work? The description is a derivative work

Re: License issue on tiny Javascript fragment

2009-02-07 Thread Bernhard R. Link
if you want to go this way). losing it would probably cause dataloss in use of the application. What happens if javascript is disabled? Please make sure the application also works then (or at the very minimum, fails gracefully). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Never contain

Re: Using NASA Imagery

2009-01-20 Thread Bernhard R. Link
organisational unit of the USA). On the other hand, waiting till someone sues will not make the situation much easier (though if it really is only one copyright holder for everything, it could wait until it gets profiable...) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Using NASA Imagery

2009-01-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
think with class of works it means classes like texts, paintings, radio broadcasts, software, ... and not classes like made as work for the government. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Using NASA Imagery

2009-01-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Using NASA Imagery

2009-01-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
for the use of its works abroad. and explain? Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: enabling transport and on storage encryption in bacula on debian build

2009-01-05 Thread Bernhard R. Link
everything in Debian accompanies everything else). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: AGPL and Debian

2008-12-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [081201 13:37]: * Bernhard R. Link: And you think that once there will be hundreds of such renamed projects of the same program which only have some patches that are not very usefull for most people because of having to specific solutions and no activity

Re: AGPL and Debian

2008-11-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
? Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link [1] Let's assume every software is AGPL and the router has some webinterface where every user (and not just the one operating the device) can interact with it, for example by adding firewall entries for their own computer in it. [2] Users here in the sense of those

Re: AGPL and Debian

2008-11-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
to some free software charity would be acceptable for main? Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AGPL and Debian

2008-11-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
to the rest of the checks that we also normally perform. Sadly, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Public Domain for Germans

2008-11-04 Thread Bernhard R. Link
you want to achieve. I should be legal in the US and I doubt a German court will tell someone they used the wrong magic words but interpret the intention. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Never contain programs so few bugs, as when no debugging tools are available! Niklaus

Re: Public Domain for Germans

2008-11-04 Thread Bernhard R. Link
it. (Or to do so would just be impractical). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Public Domain for Germans

2008-11-04 Thread Bernhard R. Link
start using the wrong words like people cross their fingers behind their back). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Never contain programs so few bugs, as when no debugging tools are available! Niklaus Wirth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

2008-09-21 Thread Bernhard R. Link
or business... And I doubt anyone is of the opinion that you will be able to download it once this lawsuite is settled is timeframe that is allowed... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

2008-09-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Davi Leal [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080915 20:55]: Bernhard R. Link wrote: Is it so hard for your to understand, that not being able to run modified services secretly is a restriction? Is it so hard for you understand, that not being able to distribute only the binary of a modified Linux kernel

Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

2008-09-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
secretly is a restriction? That having to make sure something can be downloaded from somewhere means costs? (And that enumerating services offering such a service without payment for another mean without any guarantee does not mean it has no costs?) Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Advice on wicd license

2008-09-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
, and then gives a licence. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_rights_reserved (Though I would say it was essentially deprecated much earlier than that, but I'm not from the US, so even mentioning Berne Convention sounds like an anachronism in my ears...) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

2008-09-08 Thread Bernhard R. Link
, and I see no reason to label non-free things free in the future. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link [1] There is a German proverb Das Gegenteil von gut ist gut gemeint, which translates roughly to the opposite of doing good is done with good intentions. [2] And now that free

Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

2008-09-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
the memory on embedded systems is even smaller, so this is a very noticeable restriction. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

2008-08-31 Thread Bernhard R. Link
to stop your service when the upstream service no longer runs or no longer contains the version is question[1], or only to be prepared to react on this occasion, is not a negligible cost. Hope that explains why I consider it non-free, Bernhard R. Link [1] This does not need bad intent

Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

2008-08-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
copyright law a bit in a way to make sure other people's rights are more effective (by forbidding obscured source (e.g. binaries ;-)). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link [1] I know there are some theories that running is copying to memory and thus needs permission, but luckily

Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

2008-08-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
that that running software is nothing that a sane copyright law should interfere with and nothing anything wanting to be called free license has a right to limit. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

2008-08-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
the things they would be if there was no license at all. And when people make modified variants, it stays this way. What AGPL does, is trying to limit how a program is allowed to run. That is an very important difference. Hope that helps, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

2008-08-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
people's right to run their software for any purpose they see fit? Thanks in advance, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

2008-08-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
how anyone can consider that free. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: source code written by monkey

2008-08-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
the possibility to terminate transfers and licenses, and in §106A allows and author (and explicitly not the copyright owner) of an visual art to prevent distortion, mutilation, They may be smaller in scope and amount, but are definitly there... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: Bug#487218: games-thumbnails: unclear copyright concerns

2008-06-22 Thread Bernhard R. Link
for believing something we were told with no hints against. (Strange, though, that people are assumed to know the law (or know that they do not know and ask a lawyer), but not assumed to know all the facts. Perhaps that's because lawyers make those rules). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: Desert island test

2008-03-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Sean Kellogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080228 20:54]: On Thursday 28 February 2008 11:27:15 am Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Sean Kellogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080228 20:01]: On Thursday 28 February 2008 10:19:26 am Walter Landry wrote: You just have not been around long enough ;) The desert island

Re: Desert island test

2008-02-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
test and the dissident test are just simple examples why you may modify provided that you publish is something very different from you may modify. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The legality of wodim

2007-11-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* John Halton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071118 17:34]: On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 01:45:24PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071117 23:55]: In addition, according to other posters in this thread the term Urheberrecht is better translated as author's rights. I

Re: The legality of wodim

2007-11-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
regarding creators/causers/originators. One cannot even say which of those is more verbatim or more in meaning. [1] There are differences, but most of them are just procedural. Like you cannot transfer copyright, but grant an exclusive license and so on and so forth... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R

Re: Monkey's Audio License Agreement

2007-09-07 Thread Bernhard R. Link
out of fear they might be needed somewhere. As it looks like a contradiction it is note nice and better be removed. But I'd guess that this part is no real problem. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
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Re: GPL v3 Draft 3- text and comments

2007-04-04 Thread Bernhard R. Link
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Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-03-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
on it, or the editor contributing the formating by autoindenting to be distributed as part of the source. Nor the documents and standards (or even the reference book descriping your language and interfaces) read while writing it. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: selling web application access

2006-09-22 Thread Bernhard R. Link
) or you have just a massive restriction on freedom without any gain at all, which I refuse to call free. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link [1] sane in the meaning of sane provided it disallows copying by default, though some might deem this to contradicting to be meaningful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-30 Thread Bernhard R. Link
the other way) IANAL and so on, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please comment the license of vim manual and reference

2006-08-22 Thread Bernhard R. Link
to how almost everyone else reads it. Thanks in advance for not replying to this post or any replies to it, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrtools - GPL code with CDDL build system

2006-03-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
it contains, plus any # associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to # control compilation and installation of the executable. scripts used to control compilation is clearly what we currently refer to as build system. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: no longer a bug.

2006-03-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
to something fitting to the rest of the titles in the table of contents). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gpl and hosted apps

2006-02-05 Thread Bernhard R. Link
law might not restrict running at all, so restrict it more than with no license at all, which could lead to click-wrap, restrictions to not give it to anyone not accepting the license, ...) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Question on GPL compliance

2006-01-20 Thread Bernhard R. Link
and judges would surely find some problem with that, too. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-17 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Joe Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060117 02:30]: From: Bernhard R. Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where did the unless that component itself accompanies the executable go? Is it somewhere else? It has been eliminated, intentionally. The rationale is to make things like Debian GNU/Solaris legal

Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
not disallow them to distribute unless they give such a license? This could lead to irrational fears. (with the result of corporate laywers forbidding the poor ingeneers to use it) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor

Re: Proposed license for IETF Contributions

2005-12-09 Thread Bernhard R. Link
there, please add some escape route in there, so that one can tell about endorsement if there is any. Some often found clause it something like without prior written auhtorization from ... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Choice-of-venue and forking

2005-09-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
more in the jurisdiction choosen by the clause, what will happen? Will simply the normal rules apply, or will both have to travel to the remote place, will that even be able to open an case? Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: LGPL module linked with a GPL lib

2005-08-04 Thread Bernhard R. Link
answering you. Ignorance is bliss, I guess. Oh, all hail Micheal, the great martyr trying to open our eyes. Better this way? Sorry for writing, but I can only ignore a certain amount of such posts, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: LPPL and source-less distribution

2005-06-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
, was better than anarchy. Ah, so we are not only crack-smoking but also targeting anarchy? Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LPPL and source-less distribution

2005-06-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
related to Microsoft or any other large company selling non-free software? Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WASTE-dev-public] Do not package WASTE! UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE [Was: Re: Questions about waste licence and code.]

2005-05-20 Thread Bernhard R. Link
of human rights, they are not transferable and not bounding contracts about their use can be made. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Manpages licensed under GFDL without the license text included

2005-01-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Manpages licensed under GFDL without the license text included

2005-01-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Manpages licensed under GFDL without the license text included

2005-01-09 Thread Bernhard R. Link
] partimage: partimage.1.gz partimage-server: partimaged.8.gz partimagedusers.5.gz Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Question about GFDL

2005-01-07 Thread Bernhard R. Link
|to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other |conditions whatsoever to those of this License. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link [1] As this specific info page is not yet in a package, though I do not doubt there will be some that have the same problem. [2] Consider

Re: firmware status for eagle-usb-*

2004-10-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
, Bernhard R. Link 1: and before anyone starts discussing about freeness: Do you have the source and all perimissions to do with it what we require for the word free in this context?

Re: firmware status for eagle-usb-*

2004-10-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
code to libc that the library and the program are always executed on the other one of the processors. MfG, Bernhard R. Link

Re: Open Software License v2.1

2004-09-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
from the same author. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.

Re: Open Software License v2.1

2004-09-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
bombs, terrorists, criminals, US-goverment agents, abortion medics, religious fundamentals, communists, lawyers, ... /cynism SCNR, Bernhard R. Link

Re: Open Software License v2.1

2004-09-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
a section termination the licence if you breach any FSF copyright?) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: GPL or any greater version

2004-09-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
when you insert BSD or GPLv3 for [blub]. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: cdrecord: weird GPL interpretation

2004-09-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
it impossible for him to allow others to use it. Anyone knows some reading if there is any other possibility and if this possibilty is even applicaple to software? Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.

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