Re: Visualboy Advance question.

2004-06-20 Thread Billy Biggs
J.B. Nicholson-Owens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The litmus test here is a significant amount of functionality, not will refuse to work at all without it, although that's a fairly good description of a console without a ROM. Would one ROM cut it, then? I am working to determine if one ROM is

Re: GPL compatibility question.

2004-01-31 Thread Billy Biggs
Andrew Suffield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): - one is taken from RFC 3174 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3174.html, license terms at the end). Not a chance, that's nowhere near GPL-compatible. It also appears to be non-free in its own right. I don't like the wording of derivative work that

Re: MPlayer DFSG compatibility status

2003-10-07 Thread Billy Biggs
Don Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, 07 Oct 2003, Joe Drew wrote: So far as I know, it is not illegal to infringe on somebody else's patents. AIUI patent holders can enforce (or not) their patents at will by suing, but doing so is their perogative and no law makes it wrong for

Re: free source code which requires non-free tools to build (dscaler modules for tvtime)

2003-09-09 Thread Billy Biggs
David Starner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * That which is in main must be buildable and usable solely with packages also in main (IOW, main is a closure); Really? Does that mean that the Windows specific parts of GCC must be removed from the tarball? Or does it only apply to programs, so if