Re: Re: "freenginx" open source package and "nginx" from F5 open source, potential conflict?

2024-02-27 Thread Thomas Ward
or such. I'll keep watch on this and see what chaos is coming. Thanks for the opinions, though. I have my own lawyers I can ask but I don't want to keep making them do freebies for me with regards to consulting. Thomas

"freenginx" open source package and "nginx" from F5 open source, potential conflict?

2024-02-26 Thread Thomas Ward
he opinion of debian-legal on whether there's any copyright or trademark violation concerns that exist before I pursue getting this into Debian? Thomas Ward Debian Maintainer for multiple packages Ubuntu Core Developer [1]: https://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/202

Re: GPLv3 source code with license check for some build configuration, DFSG ok?

2018-09-24 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le 2018-06-13 13:30, Ian Jackson a écrit : Florian Weimer writes ("Re: GPLv3 source code with license check for some build configuration, DFSG ok?"): Thomas Preud'homme: > The questions I was asking in the original thread on -mentors are: > > - Is a non-ultimate buil

Re: GPLv3 source code with license check for some build configuration, DFSG ok?

2018-02-19 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Hi, Thank you Ian and Dmitry for the feedback, On lundi 19 février 2018 15:07:18 GMT Ian Jackson wrote: > Thomas Preud'homme writes ("Re: GPLv3 source code with license check for some build configuration, DFSG ok?"): > > The questions I was asking in the original

Re: GPLv3 source code with license check for some build configuration, DFSG ok?

2018-02-15 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
r sale, or importing the Program or any portion of it." > > More questions follow. > > Thomas Preud'homme <thomas.preudho...@celest.fr> writes: > > ultracopier's source code has a license check when built in ultimate > > mode. However the source code is readily avail

Bug#874295: Not a bug

2017-11-29 Thread Thomas Pierson
web browser which download and run proprietary javascripts without any warning. So unless someone point me a clear justification I will close this bug as invalid for now. Regards, Thomas Pierson signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Unteralterbach visual novel

2014-03-15 Thread Thomas Hochstein
Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: As far as I understand it, in Germany, for a text / recording / drawing to be a criminal matter, it must depict actual abuse – meaning a child has to be abused for the document to be created. That's not quite correct. Accoding to German law, it's a misdemeanour to

Re: Advice regarding deleted images on Commons (tarot deck)

2013-06-03 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
confirm? Anyway, thanks a lot Bastien for your help on how to find more information in Paris. Although I didn't try it yet, your help was really appreciated. Best regards, Thomas signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Advice regarding deleted images on Commons (tarot deck)

2013-04-13 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
still in research for a few more month. I'll look into it. Thanks again for the help. Best regards, Thomas signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

A trademark add-on to the AGPL license

2012-06-16 Thread Thomas Goirand
, what is for sure, is that it makes it more difficult than a normal, unmodified, AGPL license. Would you consider removing such AGPL add-on? I don't think it's needed to protect your trademark. Look at the BSD-3-clause license, for a good example of clauses doing so. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo

Re: 3 questions around source of GPL images

2012-03-20 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mardi 20 mars 2012 05:55:19, vous avez écrit : [SNIP] Is it supposed to be the preferred form for the author. If it's the user then it gets a bit complicated because it could vary from one user to another. Theoretically, it can vary. But in most cases it should be clear. For PNG

Re: 3 questions around source of GPL images

2012-03-20 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mardi 20 mars 2012 14:39:14, Thomas Preud'homme a écrit : In this case of course. But I checked quickly in oxygen-icons package and I didn't see a rule to construct the png from the svg (although I could just have missed it). It's just that there is a SVG with the same image as the png

Re: 3 questions around source of GPL images

2012-03-20 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mardi 20 mars 2012 22:54:34, Ben Finney a écrit : Thomas Preud'homme robo...@celest.fr writes: Le mardi 20 mars 2012 14:39:14, Thomas Preud'homme a écrit : But I checked quickly in oxygen-icons package and I didn't see a rule to construct the png from the svg (although I could just

Re: 3 questions around source of GPL images

2012-03-19 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
-icon-theme, the source for the image will still be in the archive. Also, this allow all the sources to be in the source package. Best regards, Thomas Preud'homme signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

3 questions around source of GPL images

2012-03-18 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
server, the Corresponding Source may be on a different server). Thanks for taking the time to read thus far. I'm waiting your answer to enlighten me as to what I should do to respect all the license and DFSG requirements. Best regards, Thomas Preud'homme signature.asc Description

Is the IETF / Debian discussion resolved?

2012-02-27 Thread Thomas Koch
is required. - Is my interpretation correct that this means RFCs can not be modified and redistributed and thus are not DFSG-free? (Please CC me in replies.) Thank you, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

recommendation for packaging license

2011-09-02 Thread Thomas Koch
an ideal answer would be just a template section I could copy and paste in my debian/copyright! Thank you, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/copyright-format/1.0 Upstream-Name: sbinary Source: https://github.com/harrah/sbinary Upstream-Contact: Mark Harrah dmhar

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

2009-01-05 Thread Thomas Stegbauer
are compatible with debian's policy and *dreaming* it would make it into debian lenny and a half ;) *end dreaming* greetings thomas Am 04.01.2009 17:48, schrieb Kern Sibbald: Hello, The current released version (2.4.x) series under an interpretation that OpenSSL is not a system library routine

enabling transport and on storage encryption in bacula on debian build

2009-01-03 Thread Thomas Stegbauer
? greetings thomas - -- # Thomas Stegbauer https://keyserver1.pgp.com/vkd/submitsearch.event?searchcriteria=tho...@stegbauer.info # PGP Fingerprint: C5B5 BDBD 6607 A9DF E545 0EC5 9DDF 9749 BD05 808A -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: GPL photographies, eg for backround

2008-12-28 Thread Thomas Harding
On 24/Dec - 11:16, Paul Wise wrote: Firstly, -curiosa is the wrong list for your post, see the description here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-curiosa/ Ooops... I expected unexpected things, not funny ones, sorry! I suppose a better place had been debian-desktop. Anyway, as the content have

Re: Bacula and OpenSSL

2007-07-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
provided an example which isn't contaminated by self-interest on the part of FSF. If you can provide such an example, there's something to discuss. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Bacula and OpenSSL

2007-07-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kind of example are you looking for? The example that you failed to provide in the posting to which I responded. (let's not get sidetracked) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bacula and OpenSSL

2007-07-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
that it forbids others ;-) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bacula and OpenSSL

2007-07-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
who contribute to this thread. regards. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Final text of GPL v3

2007-06-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it would be interesting to hear what a real lawyer has to say about this clause and its interpretation. sadly enough, _real_ lawyers represent their client, and depending on the context will contradict themselves. -- Thomas E. Dickey http

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

2007-06-04 Thread Thomas Weber
, it seems extremely likely that if I win in Germany in a civil case, I can have this decision executed in Belgium. Additionally, you might want to check European law for similar agreements (which would mean that the jurisdiction of your immediate concern spans 20 countries). Thomas

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

2007-06-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
serious, because the federal constitution *compels* states to give effect to each other's court judgments. Thomas signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 03:49:25PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: The answer to the question in the subject is simple: NO. Thankyou for your opinion. I note you seemed to neglect to mention that you're not a lawyer. So, do you have anything to

Re: Object Management Group redistributable files

2006-10-02 Thread Thomas Girard
ORB) A DFSG-free non-recent Java ORB is maybe better than a non-free more-recent one. I'm looking into this. Thanks, Thomas [1] http://www.opengroup.org/certification/corba-home.html [2] http://www.opengroup.org/press/7jun99_a.htm [3] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2005-03

Object Management Group redistributable files

2006-09-30 Thread Thomas Girard
is on 2.5. That would mean lowering CORBA compliance but would give us a DFSG-free Java ORB) Thanks, Thomas [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=349540 [2] ftp://ftp.omg.org/pub/docs/ptc/02-01-02.zip [3] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2004-12/msg00083.html [4] http

License of examples in glibc info docs

2006-09-03 Thread Reuben Thomas
I'm trying to find out whether I can use code from the glibc info documentation in a GPLed project (I'm trying to make a feature fix for xvnc4viewer). I can't seem to find any information about this either in the documentation itself, or in the archives of glibc-bugs or debian-legal, or Google

Re: cdrtools

2006-08-12 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Daniel Schepler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 12 August 2006 02:47 am, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Daniel Schepler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to the GPL, section 0: The act of running the Program is not restricted... And since dynamic linking is done at the time

Re: New GPLv3 and LGPLv3 discussion drafts available

2006-08-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
. This will just add another twist to it. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New GPLv3 and LGPLv3 discussion drafts available

2006-08-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
would be similar in spirit to the present version, see GPLv2, section 9.) and greatly weakens the copyleft. true - since it is against the spirit of GPLv2 it automatically makes it impossible to invoke the remainder of section 9 (you have the option...). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible

Re: Non-DD's in debian-legal

2006-06-12 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, I *do* believe that d-l is a cesspit, and I for one am very glad that in its current incarnation, it is not at all binding and has no value other than being a debating socity --- a debating socity that I am very glad that I can avoid, thank you

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sure. SPI owns many of the machines that Debian owns. If any of these machines are being used to distribute this software, as I think is likely, then SPI could be liable. Oh, very good point. I hadn't thought

license of cstex / cslatex

2006-05-25 Thread Thomas Esser
). Questions: - is it valid to refer to GPL and add such severe restrictions in an appendix? - is this a free software license in the FSF definition? - is this license free enough to allow an inclusion of the software into debian? Regards, Thomas Esser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: RFH: Non-free files in Emacs

2006-03-21 Thread Thomas Dickey
facts. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
options. By contrast, if there is an invariant section written in Japanese, I cannot remove it, I cannot distribute a translation instead, I must instead simply not transmit the document *at all* if I am stuck with an ASCII-only medium. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
, then it immediately becomes relevant whether a given modification is useful, and whether that modification is prohibited. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The Curious Case Of The Mountainous Molehill

2006-02-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
can distribute it. What you cannot do is *modify* it in a particular way (or rather, any way at all). The DFSG requires the right to *modify*. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
use of the word bullshit. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-12 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
of a Japanese manual, if the Japanese version... Oh, never mind. Craig is not listening, he's just vomiting words out his mouth. Sorry. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: data on the consultants page

2005-11-16 Thread Thomas Huriaux
, -- Thomas Huriaux ---BeginMessage--- On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:02:08PM +0100, Thomas Huriaux wrote: Do you still have a copy of this spam, so that I can forward it to debian-legal? yes: (because of the `linkedin' stuff, I thought first they had me on linked in, and they replied

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Nov 13, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the best reason to ask or require contributors to licenses their papers in a DFSG form is so that Debian can distribute the papers as part of Debian. I think this is an awful reason

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Nov 13, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry, I was under the impression that every package in Debian was software. Are you confusing software and computer programs? No, I just do not believe that this specious distinction

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Nov 13, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you saying that Debian has too much documentation? What is the non-computer-program which we have too much of? No, I am saying that debian has too many stuff which is not programs nor

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: Personally, I'd like to read the papers. It's a shame that Debian can't distribute them to me. Debian does not want, it's quite a different issue. Debian does not want what? To distribute them? Hogwash. I'd be happy to upload them. -- To

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scripsit Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems to me that the papers at a Debian conference are almost all related to programs in Debian. You expect no contributions about release procedures, bug report management, the NM process, dealing

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-12 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
I think the best reason to ask or require contributors to licenses their papers in a DFSG form is so that Debian can distribute the papers as part of Debian. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

data on the consultants page

2005-11-06 Thread Thomas Huriaux
in any form is not wanted. Of course this webpage is already copyrighted by SPI, but I'm wondering if the potential note would comply with the license of the website or if there is any other problem/solution. Please Cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, -- Thomas Huriaux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Patents on encoders in Europe

2005-07-23 Thread thomas
such a patent. Is that correct? I would say that the current situation neither permits pure alghritms to be patented. Have you time and money to prove that through a trial? ;-) thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re:

2005-05-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
purposes, it's even more irrelevant. Our standing policy is that if there is doubt about the force or intention of a license, we err on the side of simply doing what the licensor demands. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re:

2005-05-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
ourselves? (Or, if we are not, then why is this relevant?) Thomas P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re:

2005-05-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
, and if the rider is not granted, stop distributing (which we would do anyway). So this is a tempest in a silly teapot. I'm happy to leave the thread here, since the upshot is a no-relevance-to-important-issues. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re:

2005-05-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
that last sentence, please re-read it. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re:

2005-05-19 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The FAQ is not merely an interesting commentary -- it is the published stance of the FSF, to which its General Counsel refers all inquiries. Although I am not legally qualified to judge, I believe that he can have no reasonable basis under the law

Re:

2005-05-19 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
to be: a license? There is a thing you are not considering: it is a unilateral grant of conditional permission. This is a perfectly well-traveled area of law. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Creative Commons license summary (version 4)

2005-04-04 Thread Thomas
are not intended for software, thus the DFSG are irrelevant. Then they will read [...] I am not representative of CC in any form, but I confirm what Francesco says. Me and him had the same discussion some mail before. ;-) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Draft summary of Creative Commons 2.0 licenses (version 3)

2005-04-04 Thread Thomas
this is necessary to fix the software-different-meaning-issue. thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Draft summary of Creative Commons 2.0 licenses (version 3)

2005-04-02 Thread Thomas
Francesco Poli wrote: Hi Thomas! ciao Franceso I suppose you are reading Barak Pearlmutter's DFSG FAQ (http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html), right? yes, it is a faq in debian.org, although in a personal page. Should I not consider that faq? [...] The main point you seem to miss

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-18 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Joel Aelwyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 03:15:23AM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: I think most of those are just aggregation on a medium of distribution. Only the tree of dependencies has to be checked. So what you're saying is that Depends: java2-runtime is fine

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-16 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Thomas Sniffen writes: Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Thomas Sniffen writes: Fortunately, the sentence beginning A program using... is not relevant to my argument. I'm not talking about derivative works. I'm talking

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-14 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dalibor Topic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How Kaffe, the GPld interpreter, goes about loading GPLd parts of *itself* into memory, whether it uses JNI, KNI, dlopen, FFI, libtool, or other bindings

Re: why is graphviz package non-free?

2005-01-14 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should this be considered free? I can't see it as free. It's very clear that recipients are being charged for the ability to modify the software. They aren't on a plane with the original author

Re: Illustrating JVM bindings

2005-01-14 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Grzegorz B. Prokopski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Your implementation creates a huge loophole in GPL, that I do not believe is there. Let's continue your way of seeing interepter features and see what would be the consequences. An example. I am writing an app. A GPL-incompatible or even

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-14 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Dalibor Topic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is compiled against an interface, not an implementation. Which particular implementation was used while compiling is irrelevant. Can you support this assertion? The program

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-14 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Dalibor Topic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How Kaffe, the GPld interpreter, goes about loading GPLd parts of *itself* into memory, whether it uses JNI, KNI, dlopen, FFI, libtool, or other bindings, or whether it asks the user to tilt switches on an array of light bulbs is irrelevant to the

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-14 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dalibor Topic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How Kaffe, the GPld interpreter, goes about loading GPLd parts of *itself* into memory, whether it uses JNI, KNI, dlopen, FFI, libtool, or other bindings

Re: why is graphviz package non-free?

2005-01-14 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should this be considered free? I can't see it as free. It's very clear that recipients are being charged for the ability to modify the software. They aren't on a plane with the original author

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-14 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If there actually is something going wrong, I'd really like for someone to spell out what it is in some fashion which addresses the above points. Everything you said there seems reasonable to me (at first glance). It's fine for the Kaffe developers and

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-14 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Thomas Sniffen writes: But what ends up on the user's Debian system when he types apt-get install eclipse; eclipse is a program incorporating a JVM and many libraries. Debian's not just distributing Eclipse or just distributing Kaffe

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-14 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:02:52 -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Why are copies OK, and derivative works not? I see GPL 2b talking about any work that in whole or in part contains the Program. Eclipse+Kaffe contains Kaffe

Re: Illustrating JVM bindings

2005-01-14 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Grzegorz B. Prokopski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Your implementation creates a huge loophole in GPL, that I do not believe is there. Let's continue your way of seeing interepter features and see what would be the consequences. An example. I am writing an app. A GPL-incompatible or even

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-14 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Dalibor Topic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I instruct my computer running the Debian OS to load and run eclipse, the code from some JVM package and the code from the Eclipse package and from dozens of others are loaded into memory. The process on my computer is mechanical, so we should

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Combining X+Y in the way that you have described is anything but mechanical: it is a task which typically takes a skilled programmer a great amount of time and thought. Different programmers might do it in different ways. I'm not referring here to the work done by ld, but to the process of

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Lewis Jardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Combining X+Y in the way that you have described is anything but mechanical: it is a task which typically takes a skilled programmer a great amount of time and thought. Different programmers might do it in different ways

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Combining X+Y in the way that you have described is anything but mechanical: it is a task which typically takes a skilled programmer a great amount of time and thought. Different programmers might do

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Eclipse authors do not tell you which JVM to use. But Debian does, when it says: Depends: j2re1.4 | j2re1.3 | java2-runtime So the eclipse-platform distributed by Debian *does* call on a particular JVM. And it isn't kaffe, it's Sun's. We do

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:08:59 -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Combining X+Y in the way that you have described is anything but mechanical: it is a task which typically takes a skilled programmer a great amount of time

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Grzegorz B. Prokopski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which Eclipse packages? The old ones we have in SID now? Irrelevant. There would have been nothing whatsoever to discuss in such case. The *new* Eclipse packages that are being prepared now and which we've been discussing (I already said it in

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Grzegorz B. Prokopski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2005-13-01 at 15:58 -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:19:36PM -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfInterpreterIsGPL However, when the interpreter is extended to provide

Re: Illustrating JVM bindings

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Grzegorz B. Prokopski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These facilities include class loading, class instantiation, synchronization, garbage collection (ie. you can trigger GC from within your program), reflection (ie. you can ask VM what are methods that this class have?). Those are features of

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [no longer relevant to debian-java, I think] On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:28:57 -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] You are ignoring

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Combining X+Y in the way that you have described is anything but mechanical: it is a task which typically takes a skilled programmer a great amount of time and thought. Different programmers might do it in different ways. I'm not referring here to the work done by ld, but to the process of

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Lewis Jardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Combining X+Y in the way that you have described is anything but mechanical: it is a task which typically takes a skilled programmer a great amount of time and thought. Different programmers might do it in different ways

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Combining X+Y in the way that you have described is anything but mechanical: it is a task which typically takes a skilled programmer a great amount of time and thought. Different programmers might do

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Eclipse authors do not tell you which JVM to use. But Debian does, when it says: Depends: j2re1.4 | j2re1.3 | java2-runtime So the eclipse-platform distributed by Debian *does* call on a particular JVM. And it isn't kaffe, it's Sun's. We do

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:21:51 -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] So in answer to your direct question: the unlinked binary isn't derived from any of them. The complete binary, including its libraries, included whichever

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:08:59 -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Combining X+Y in the way that you have described is anything but mechanical: it is a task which typically takes a skilled programmer a great amount of time

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
It is not hard: Some distribution of Eclipse is only encumbered by the GPL if it requires a GPLed work to correctly operate. You may have some odd version of Eclipse, but the standard releases have no such requirement. While most of what you said seemed perfectly reasonable, this does not.

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe To: Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-legal@lists.debian.org Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:35:31 -0800

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Grzegorz B. Prokopski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which Eclipse packages? The old ones we have in SID now? Irrelevant. There would have been nothing whatsoever to discuss in such case. The *new* Eclipse packages that are being prepared now and which we've been discussing (I already said it in

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Grzegorz B. Prokopski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2005-13-01 at 15:58 -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:19:36PM -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfInterpreterIsGPL However, when the interpreter is extended to provide

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [no longer relevant to debian-java, I think] On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:28:57 -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] You are ignoring the creative act performed by the programmer who arranged calls to functions within libc

Re: cc me on reply Package The Golden Arches

2005-01-12 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
William Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 12:35:09AM -0500, Michael Poole wrote: (c) some DD cares enough to maintain or sponsor the package. It's incredibly disappointing that some DD desires to see copies of other people's designs as original clip art. It is

Re: mozilla thunderbird trademark restrictions / still dfsg free?

2005-01-12 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Claus Färber) writes: Hallo, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb/wrote: Gervase Markham has claimed[1] that command names must also be changed. That's well beyond DFSG#4, since it impacts compatibility. DFSG#4 was probably introduced to allow the distribution of

Re: cc me on reply Package The Golden Arches

2005-01-12 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
William Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 12:35:09AM -0500, Michael Poole wrote: (c) some DD cares enough to maintain or sponsor the package. It's incredibly disappointing that some DD desires to see copies of other people's designs as original clip art. It is

Re: mozilla thunderbird trademark restrictions / still dfsg free?

2005-01-12 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Claus Färber) writes: Hallo, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb/wrote: Gervase Markham has claimed[1] that command names must also be changed. That's well beyond DFSG#4, since it impacts compatibility. DFSG#4 was probably introduced to allow the distribution of

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