Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 24 septembre 2006 à 23:32 +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : Jörg Schilling interprets this restriction as implied by trademark law in his country. I don't know whether his interpretation is a legally valid one (IANAL), even though I've heard of cases where courts prevented the

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Josselin Mouette wrote: Le dimanche 24 septembre 2006 à 23:32 +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : snip Replacing the text by a 'this software cannot return schily because it would infringe on Jörg Schilling's trademark' notice - or no notice at all - would seem like a fine solution.

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-25 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:49:35 +0200 Josselin Mouette wrote: Le dimanche 24 septembre 2006 à 23:32 +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : [...] Here, the restriction clearly forbids creating a derivative work that is a drop-in replacement of the original, and thus interferes with interoperability.

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 15 septembre 2006 à 23:51 +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : Because the hard problems that you pointed out have been fixed. We do no longer return schily author ID, etc. You no longer return schily, but it seems that noone is allowed to create a modified version of cdrkit that

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-24 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 13:43:39 +0200 Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 15 septembre 2006 à 23:51 +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : Because the hard problems that you pointed out have been fixed. We do no longer return schily author ID, etc. You no longer return schily, but it seems that

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-18 Thread Markus Laire
On 9/16/06, Markus Laire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just reported a bug for this. Hopefully I didn't make any mistakes and it'll eventually show up in bugs.debian.org It's bug #387783 At http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=387783 -- Markus Laire -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-17 Thread MJ Ray
Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] It only implies that this issue is higly inflamable, and putting it on a wider mailing list is not a good tactical move. And please don't tell me that there is not a single troll on this list. Given the apparent posting restrictions on debburn-devel, I can

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-16 Thread Markus Laire
On 9/15/06, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/14/06, Markus Laire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, it's possible that I should report a serious[1] bug for this, but I wanted to ask about this from debian-legal first, to know if others agree that this is a problem. Reporting a

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-15 Thread MJ Ray
Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to ask you to give us some days to find a peacefull solution without starting another flamewar. But, hey, you already did it by Cc'ing debian-legal and so attracting the trolls ASAP. Very diplomatic. NOT. If the above troll of debian-legal by

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * MJ Ray [Fri, Sep 15 2006, 10:53:03PM]: Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to ask you to give us some days to find a peacefull solution without starting another flamewar. But, hey, you already did it by Cc'ing debian-legal and so attracting the trolls ASAP.

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Markus Laire [Thu, Sep 14 2006, 03:37:11PM]: I mentioned this problem over a week ago[5] at debburn-devel but didn't get any response. Because the hard problems that you pointed out have been fixed. We do no longer return schily author ID, etc. Recently Nathanael Nerode

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-14 Thread Markus Laire
On 9/14/06, Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #include hallo.h * Markus Laire [Thu, Sep 14 2006, 03:37:11PM]: I mentioned this problem over a week ago[5] at debburn-devel but didn't get any response. Because the hard problems that you pointed out have been fixed. We do no longer return

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-14 Thread Albert Cahalan
On 9/14/06, Markus Laire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, it's possible that I should report a serious[1] bug for this, but I wanted to ask about this from debian-legal first, to know if others agree that this is a problem. Reporting a serious bug is definitely correct. Be sure to mention that