Re: Ask contributors a permission to relicense

2012-02-05 Thread Wols Lists
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/01/12 20:07, Francesco Poli wrote: Please note that Andrei found it “a bit harsh” [1] (well, it was about copyright reassignment, since we will only ask for a relicensing permission, maybe his remark won't stand) if we remove commit access

Re: S3TC patent violation in multiple packages?

2010-12-27 Thread Wols Lists
On 27/12/10 15:41, Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 00:52:36 +, Wols Lists wrote: Any attempt to sue a European distributor would hopefully (a) get shut down damn fast, and (b) be a painful experience for the plaintiff. Sounds like wishful thinking to me. Depends where you

Re: S3TC patent violation in multiple packages?

2010-12-26 Thread Wols Lists
On 26/12/10 21:13, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 13:58:10 +0100, Rudolf Polzer wrote: Hi, the S3TC texture compression scheme is covered by an US patent, as described in http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2010-March/005439.html Lots of stuff is covered by US

Re: NASA CDF

2010-12-11 Thread Wols Lists
On 10/12/10 19:31, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: Teemu Ikonen tpiko...@gmail.com writes: The conclusion I draw from the threads above is that the license above is DFSG-free. I agree with you, but also with those who observed that the notion of a federal agency holding copyright is a bit odd;

Re: Joining OIN?

2010-12-08 Thread Wols Lists
On 08/12/10 08:24, Frank A. Kingswood wrote: Hallo everyone, Would it be beneficial if Debian joined OIN? The Open Invention Network licenses patents to promote the Linux ecosystem. http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/ It's not clear how much a membership would cost though. Membership is

Re: Releasing under a different liberal license?

2010-10-14 Thread Wols Lists
On 14/10/10 23:06, Miriam Ruiz wrote: Hi, There's some old code I am working on, but which unfortunately is not supported by upstream anymore. Thus, I've decided to become the new upstream and make the code evolve myself. The original license says hat: Permission to use, copy, and

Re: Plugins for non-free software in orig.tar.gz

2010-07-14 Thread Wols Lists
On 13/07/10 14:54, Rudolf Polzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 09:35:14AM +0100, Wols Lists wrote: On 13/07/10 06:38, Rudolf Polzer wrote: I have another such case where I would be upstream. I currently have a library that I am the only copyright holder of, that is currently under