Previously ninewands wrote:
Just a thought ... how difficult would it be to port the postgres ssl
support to link to OpenSSL?
Perhaps you mean GnuTLS? I'm not sure if we want to do that for
stability reasons.. I GnuTLS is already stable enough for production
use.
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Previously Martin Schulze wrote:
This could affect us as well. It talks about a donation from Sun
that includes patents and: ``the licence on the new code basically
builds a contract that says if you use this code, you cannot sue
Sun''.
There are other clauses as well. On top of the OpenSSL
Previously Peter Makholm wrote:
I think there are consensus for allowing positive discrimination.
There is? That would be a mighty slippery slope.
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Previously Lazarus Long wrote:
Reading /usr/share/doc/vim/copyright, it appears this package fails to
comply with point 3 of the DFSG. If so, this seems messy at best,
since it has been in main in previous releases, hence should probably be
discussed on this list.
If you are interested in
Previously J?r?me Marant wrote:
IIRC, Debian does not provide patented software (no MP3 encoder,
no DeCSS, etc).
We do. Look at gif handling code for example.
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Previously J?r?me Marant wrote:
I forgot about gif. Do you have any other examples?
I haven't memorized the list of packages on non-US, but you could
esaily download the Packages files for it and look through the
descriptions.
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Previously Sunnanvind Briling Fenderson wrote:
What's this I hear about MP3-decoding (as opposed to encoding) being
patented and Fraunhofer only allowing non-commercial use, requiring a
fee otherwise? (I thought this was the reason why the original mpg123
only allowed non-commercial use.)
He
Previously Henning Makholm wrote:
I think this is non-free. It means that people without net access
cannot receive the software on disks from a friend and later give
the friend back a bugfixed version.
Does it say `immediately' or `electronically' ?
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Previously Aaron Lehmann wrote:
mmmkay, well, could I put mplayer (with or without CSS decryption) in
non-free? That's basically what I'm looking for.
A technical problem is that mplayer optimizes itself for the machine
you compile it on, which is quite impractical when you are packaging
it.
Previously Joseph Carter wrote:
Well supposedly SPI already exists for this purpose, however SPI and
Debian both cower in fear from the mere potential of a cease-and-desist
letter because someone got the bright idea that one might be possible
under a silly US currently law being actively
Previously Sam Hartman wrote:
I can't find an answer to the question on this list's archives and so
I'm asking it again. It seems fairly clear to me that the answer is
yes, if proper procedures are followed, but since export issues are
kind of touchy I want to make sure that I'm not missing
Previously Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
I have packed a microcode loader for Pentium Pro, Pentium II,...
How is it different then the /dev/cpu/microcode support the
kernel already provides?
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Previously Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
If MNG or ogg/vorbis were anywhere near being usable,
problem would be solved.
Basic NMG support will be in M17 iirc, there is ogg/vorbis encoder
and working decoders in woody now.
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with a better wording speak up now.
From the reiserfs mailinglist:
Hans Reiser wrote:
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
If this is the case may I suggest changing the text a bit then? If you
release it under the GPL and add a statement like the one below things
will be a lot more obvious.
If you want
Previously Hans Reiser wrote:
No, it makes it GPL'd with an additional license available if you don't like
GPL
and are willing to pay.
If this is the case may I suggest changing the text a bit then? If you release
it under the GPL and add a statement like the one below things will be a lot
Previously Joey Hess wrote:
http://www.491.org/projets/api/
Nice. Time to write them a letter I guess. How about something like this:
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We recently became aware of your website at http://www.491.org/projets/api/ .
Previously [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Below is some data on the patent and some historical data
I dug out from Debian web site. It seems to show that some
time between -95 and -97 dselect supported upgrading from
internet.
Firt time it uses a remote database would be January 1996, when the
nfs
Previously Gergely Madarasz wrote:
(A note for debian-legal members, all the information which can be found
about webmin licensing is on the website, pasted here:
What licence is Webmin distributed under?
Following the acquisition of Webmin by Caldera, all past and
Previously Martin Schulze wrote:
We are told that the installation routine is free software. Though,
only stubs have been made available, iirc.
If you go to ftp.corel.com and browse around you'll find the complete
sources.
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Previously Bruce Perens wrote:
Yup. I want to see if he finds a difference where the Modula-3 compiler
is concerned. I think he _will_, because the compiler _must_ be using
GPL headers to work with the GCC back-end.
I'm not sure.. it would be pretty easy do something where you simply
push the
Previously Bruce Perens wrote:
Yes, but you'd have to look very carefully at the GPL source code to figure
out what the intermediate code _is_, and the result, if copied into a non-GPL
program, would probably be an infringement.
But then you get back to the point it's easy to circumvent: one
Previously Henning Makholm wrote:
That's knowledge. Facts are not copyrightable, only particular
expressions of facts are.
Such as a particular way to express the format for the intermediate language?
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Previously Ben Pfaff wrote:
No, file formats are not copyrightable, only actual files.
Otherwise clones of proprietary packages with proprietary file
formats would be in violation of copyright.
We're starting to digress here though.. lets stop this thread, I
think all arguments have been made
I'm talking with the author of vim about this, and he is a bit reluctant
to remove the encryption-code from vim. I can't blame him, where he
lives (netherlands) it's not an issue, and we are the first to complain.
He did bring up an interesting point: would translating something from
English to
Previously Bruce Perens wrote:
Lose it. We shouldn't be providing weak crypto.
Euh, hmm. Strong answer :). I've forwarded the issues to the vim
upstream author to see if he will consider removing crypto from
his version as well.
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Previously Christian Surchi wrote:
I have a package (tkpgp) from munitions.vipul.net archive and the
upstream maintainer wants distribute only his email and his nick. The
program is GPL. Can this package stay in Debian, without real name of
author in debian/copyright?
I don't see why not..
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Did someone else notice that OSI apparently has started using a new
trademark? In a feature called `on being proprietary' for slashdot
Russ Nelson mentions the term `OSI Certified(tm)'..
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on non-US will influence our mirrors though.
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might be interested as well.
Now go and tear it apart :)
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Wietse
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same name would solve the problem?
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Previously Dale Scheetz wrote:
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
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Lemme guess, you're studying to become a lawyer? :)
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