Re: Bug#819332: License question about sf2 soundfont in Tuxguitar

2023-01-16 Thread tony mancill
On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 08:33:07AM -0800, tony mancill wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 10:02:55PM +0100, Helmar Gerloni wrote: > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2023/01/msg5.html > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2023/01/msg00097.html > > Roberto, Tobias, thanks for your

Re: Bug#819332: License question about sf2 soundfont in Tuxguitar

2023-01-16 Thread tony mancill
On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 10:02:55PM +0100, Helmar Gerloni wrote: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2023/01/msg5.html > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2023/01/msg00097.html > Roberto, Tobias, thanks for your answers. > > I have removed MagicSFver2.sf2 from the package and

Re: License question about sf2 soundfont in Tuxguitar

2023-01-15 Thread Helmar Gerloni
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2023/01/msg5.html > https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2023/01/msg00097.html Roberto, Tobias, thanks for your answers. I have removed MagicSFver2.sf2 from the package and added a note to README.Debian. The new package now depends on

Re: License question about sf2 soundfont in Tuxguitar

2023-01-14 Thread Roberto
>From my personal experience of 15+ years contacting with authors of thousands of "free" sound fonts: they are usually composed of sounds taken from random places, and nobody really knows who made them or what their license are. Many of them take samples from other "free" sound fonts, and chain

Fwd: License question virtualbox-ext-pack vs. virtualbox-guest-additions-iso

2022-11-11 Thread Christian Kuka
: License question virtualbox-ext-pack vs. virtualbox-guest-additions-iso Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 13:54:01 +0100 From: Christian Kuka To: team+debian-virtual...@tracker.debian.org Hi all, In our team we just came across the question which license apply to the virtualbox debian packages

OpenJDK 7.0 license question

2013-09-04 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
[CC me please] Hi there, Could someone please clarify why OpenJDK 7.0 went to main with the following license: http://openjdk.java.net/legal/ - http://openjdk.java.net/legal/OpenJDK-TCK_SE7_27Dec2011.pdf ... 1.1 “Compatible Licensee Implementation” means a Licensee Implementation that (i)

Re: OpenJDK 7.0 license question

2013-09-04 Thread Walter Landry
Mathieu Malaterre ma...@debian.org wrote: [CC me please] Hi there, Could someone please clarify why OpenJDK 7.0 went to main with the following license: http://openjdk.java.net/legal/ - http://openjdk.java.net/legal/OpenJDK-TCK_SE7_27Dec2011.pdf Looking at

Re: OpenJDK 7.0 license question

2013-09-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 07:13:50PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: [CC me please] Hi there, Could someone please clarify why OpenJDK 7.0 went to main with the following license: http://openjdk.java.net/legal/ - http://openjdk.java.net/legal/OpenJDK-TCK_SE7_27Dec2011.pdf As Walter

Re: License Question

2012-12-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Daniel Echeverry: I am currently working on this bug [1], the package has a licensed font with this text [2]. Can you tell me how I define this license in debian/copyright file? Can you just remove the file and use the system font instead? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: License Question

2012-12-29 Thread Daniel Echeverry
2012/12/29 Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de * Daniel Echeverry: I am currently working on this bug [1], the package has a licensed font with this text [2]. Can you tell me how I define this license in debian/copyright file? Can you just remove the file and use the system font instead?

Re: License Question

2012-12-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Daniel Echeverry: 2012/12/29 Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de * Daniel Echeverry: I am currently working on this bug [1], the package has a licensed font with this text [2]. Can you tell me how I define this license in debian/copyright file? Can you just remove the file and use the

Re: license question

2012-03-17 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 17/03/2012 01:18, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Jérémy Lal kapo...@melix.org writes: could anyone help me resolve this license question : https://github.com/isaacs/inherits/commit/0b5b6e9964ca That page contains more than one question. If i can tell the author here's a known license

Re: license question

2012-03-17 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Jérémy Lal kapo...@melix.org writes: If i can tell the author here's a known license that fits your needs, i can consider i answered him. That's difficult since I'm not quite sure what he really wants. Is You may not release the Software under a more restrictive license than this one. trying

Re: license question

2012-03-17 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: Jérémy Lal kapo...@melix.org writes: If i can tell the author here's a known license that fits your needs, i can consider i answered him. That's difficult since I'm not quite sure what he really wants. Is What

Re: license question

2012-03-17 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:42:59 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: Well that is a fun license. I think it is attempting to say that the work doesn't qualify to have copyright/patent laws applied to it. IMO it is way too vague to achieve that and cannot override copyright law where copright law

Re: license question

2012-03-17 Thread Felyza Wishbringer
If, on contact, his goal is just wide-openness delivered in an eccentric license, then I would recommend the WTFPL v2 located at http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ which basically says you can do anything you want to with the software. Its an eccentric license that is Debian compliant, and wide open.

Re: license question

2012-03-17 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 17/03/2012 16:14, Felyza Wishbringer wrote: If, on contact, his goal is just wide-openness delivered in an eccentric license, then I would recommend the WTFPL v2 located at http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ which basically says you can do anything you want to with the software. Its an eccentric

Re: license question

2012-03-17 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 17/03/2012 11:14, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: Jérémy Lal kapo...@melix.org writes: If i can tell the author here's a known license that fits your needs, i can consider i answered him. That's difficult since

Re: license question

2012-03-16 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2012/3/17 Jérémy Lal kapo...@melix.org: Hi, could anyone help me resolve this license question : https://github.com/isaacs/inherits/commit/0b5b6e9964ca i'm not smart enough to grasp what the author wants in that case. Just for the record, the license says: Copyright 2011 Isaac Z. Schlueter

Re: license question

2012-03-16 Thread Paul Wise
Well that is a fun license. I think it is attempting to say that the work doesn't qualify to have copyright/patent laws applied to it. IMO it is way too vague to achieve that and cannot override copyright law where copright law disagrees. It also constitutes license proliferation. -- bye,

Re: License question

2011-03-12 Thread MJ Ray
Bernhard Reiter asked: The following license applies to one cardset included with pysolfc-cardsets (currently waiting for review). It looks like MIT/X to me, but as IANAL, I was wondering if this is DFSG compatible and thus okay to include? (I'm currently not including it because I wasn't

Re: License question for new package

2009-10-17 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Hi, Have a look at this part: With the exception of content with an individual readme file, all content is copyright Platinum Arts LLC and permission is required for distribution. It is not even valid for non-free without an special permission. My approach for this package was to package te game

Re: License question for new package

2009-10-17 Thread Ben Finney
Scott Howard showard...@gmail.com writes: Hello - I'm packaging something new that has a custom license, and I'd an official opinion as to which repo it can go it: Thank you for your attention to this topic, and for quoting the license text here for inspection. Overall, the language is poor

Re: License question for new package

2009-10-17 Thread Scott Howard
Thanks Miry for the reply! On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Miriam Ruiz mir...@debian.org wrote: Have a look at this part: With the exception of content with an individual readme file, all content is copyright Platinum Arts LLC and permission is required for distribution. It is not even valid

Re: License question for new package

2009-10-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 01:23:26PM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : Obnoxious advertising requirement: IMO this restriction makes the work non-free for the same reasons the similar requirement in the original BSD license makes a work non-free. Hello everybody, works licenced with advertisement

Re: License question

2007-10-20 Thread Ben Finney
Karl Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a package (ftp://ftp.linuxcanada.com/pub/Quasar/1.4.7/source/quasar-1.4.7_GPL.tgz) that I want to bring in to Debian, but it has two licenses in the base directory. The presence of a file containing license terms is not enough to act as a

Re: license question

2007-10-08 Thread Ben Finney
Faheem Mitha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a question about a software license. The software in question is not packaged for Debian. Can you tell us what the software is and where it can be found? Is the following license a free software license (by the defn of the DFSG)? The license

Re: License Question

2007-09-21 Thread Ben Finney
(Charliej has asked a straightforward question about a package's license and whether it can be in Debian. Accordingly, I'm crossposting to debian-legal; please follow up on that list. Charliej, please subscribe to debian-legal to follow the discussion.) Charliej [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am

A license question

2007-09-09 Thread Kumar Appaiah
(Please CC me, I am not on this list) Dear Debian Legal, Could you please comment on whether this license is DFSG compliant or not? I am actually packaging JFTP, and it uses some small GIF images released like this: COPYRIGHT: All images and icons Copyright(C) 1998 Dean S. Jones readme: This

Re: JFTP icon freeness (Was: A license question)

2007-09-09 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Sunday 09 September 2007 10:22:55 Kumar Appaiah wrote: Could you please comment on whether this license is DFSG compliant or not? I am actually packaging JFTP, and it uses some small GIF images released like this: COPYRIGHT: All images and icons Copyright(C) 1998 Dean S. Jones readme:

Re: JFTP icon freeness (Was: A license question)

2007-09-09 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 11:44:20AM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: Looking at JFTP, it looks like this only applies to some of the icons, not all of them. The easiest thing to do might be to ask the author to please relicense the icons under a free software license. Thanks for the tip.

Re: CNRI Python License question

2007-06-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 25 juin 2007 à 20:17 +0200, Carlos Galisteo a écrit : Upstream source is released under the CNRI Python License [2] but AFAIK, the DFSG compliant 'Python License' is the PSF [3] one. As you can read in the PSF license full text, there's a controversy about the CNRI (1.6.1)

Re: License-Question (expanded GPL)

2007-05-23 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cord Beermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi. I want to add a package to Debian with the following License-Statement: The Simple PHP Blog is released under the GNU Public License. It's the GNU *General*

Re: License-Question (expanded GPL)

2007-05-18 Thread Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu)
Cord Beermann wrote: Hi. I want to add a package to Debian with the following License-Statement: The Simple PHP Blog is released under the GNU Public License. You are free to use and modify the Simple PHP Blog. All changes

sphpblog License-Question (modified/expanded GPL)

2007-05-16 Thread Cord Beermann
Hi. I want to add a package to Debian with the following License-Statement: The Simple PHP Blog is released under the GNU Public License. You are free to use and modify the Simple PHP Blog. All changes must be uploaded to

Bug#421513: sphpblog License-Question (modified/expanded GPL)

2007-05-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Cord Beermann wrote: I want to add a package to Debian with the following License-Statement: The Simple PHP Blog is released under the GNU Public License. You are free to use and modify the Simple PHP Blog.

Re: sphpblog License-Question (modified/expanded GPL)

2007-05-16 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 17:32 +0200, Cord Beermann wrote: I want to add a package to Debian with the following License-Statement: The Simple PHP Blog is released under the GNU Public License. You are free to use and modify the

Re: sphpblog License-Question (modified/expanded GPL)

2007-05-16 Thread Ben Finney
Cord Beermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to add a package to Debian with the following License-Statement: Does this mean you are the sole copyright holder? Or is this a work derived from someone else's work? What is the license of that existing work?

Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-13 Thread MJ Ray
Wesley J. Landaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 12 May 2007 16:01:25 Francesco Poli wrote: You may not impose any further restrictions with respect to the *rights granted by the GPL*. But there are already such restrictions, and you cannot remove them because you are not the

Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-13 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Wesley J. Landaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 12 May 2007 16:01:25 Francesco Poli wrote: You may not impose any further restrictions with respect to the *rights granted by the GPL*. But there are already such

Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-13 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 13 May 2007 21:04:09 +0100 Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes [...] The copyright holder could make a new licence out of the GPL, as permitted by the FSF, but they have not done so. I think they should use the plain GPL, because

Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-13 Thread Ben Finney
Anthony W. Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Adding any restrictions to plain GPL results in an invalid licence as in http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/05/msg00303.html I think you're wrong here ... (certainly if the

Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-12 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 12 May 2007 20:52:05 +0100 (BST) Alan Baghumian wrote: [...] You can find the exact license here: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-fonts/packages/ttf-liberation/trunk/debian/copyright?op=filerev=0sc=0 Mmmmh, does the following exception constitute an additional restriction with respect

Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-12 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Saturday 12 May 2007 13:30:43 Francesco Poli wrote: Mmmmh, does the following exception constitute an additional restriction with respect to the GNU GPL v2? | (b) As a further exception, any distribution of the object code of the | Software in a physical product must provide you the

Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-12 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 12 May 2007 13:55:23 -0600 Wesley J. Landaker wrote: On Saturday 12 May 2007 13:30:43 Francesco Poli wrote: [...] If this is the case, the work could be even undistributable, because it's licensed under inconsistent[1] terms (GPLv2 + additional restrictions). What do other

Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-12 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Saturday 12 May 2007 16:01:25 Francesco Poli wrote: You may not impose any further restrictions with respect to the *rights granted by the GPL*. But there are already such restrictions, and you cannot remove them because you are not the copyright holder. Hence you cannot comply with the

Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-12 Thread Michael Poole
Wesley J. Landaker writes: On Saturday 12 May 2007 16:01:25 Francesco Poli wrote: You may not impose any further restrictions with respect to the *rights granted by the GPL*. But there are already such restrictions, and you cannot remove them because you are not the copyright holder. Hence

Re: Custom license question (Glk libraries)

2005-11-11 Thread Joe Smith
Niko Tyni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fine. So, as I understand, the only possible problem is documentation, since the license doesn't explicitly give permission to modify it or distribute modified versions. It's only speaking of 'the code'. All the documentation

Re: Custom license question (Glk libraries)

2005-11-08 Thread Niko Tyni
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 03:18:00PM -0500, Joe Smith wrote: [1] http://www.eblong.com/zarf/glk/ Ah. Zarf. Quite a fascinating fellow. :) Right :) The source code in this package is copyright 1998-9 by Andrew Plotkin. You may copy and distribute it freely, by any means and under any

Re: Custom license question (Glk libraries)

2005-11-06 Thread Joe Smith
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I think this is trying to be a shorter licence with the same effect as the Artistic - you may edit it, but must change the name. I'd say it follows the DFSG (integrity of source allows name changes), but I have one doubt: if

Custom license question (Glk libraries)

2005-11-05 Thread Niko Tyni
Hi, I'm packaging a set of Glk user interface libraries [1], which are distributed under a custom license, included below. In my limited understanding this is both DFSG-free and GPL-compatible, but I'd like to be sure about this. The libraries are going to be linked against GPL- and BSD-licensed

Re: Custom license question (Glk libraries)

2005-11-05 Thread MJ Ray
Niko Tyni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The source code in this package is copyright 1998-9 by Andrew Plotkin. You may copy and distribute it freely, by any means and under any conditions, as long as the code and documentation is not changed. You may also incorporate this code into your own

Re: Custom license question (Glk libraries)

2005-11-05 Thread Joe Smith
Niko Tyni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] http://www.eblong.com/zarf/glk/ Ah. Zarf. Quite a fascinating fellow. :) The source code in this package is copyright 1998-9 by Andrew Plotkin. You may copy and distribute it freely, by any means and under any

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-26 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 24 May 2005 08:48:49 -0500 Bill Allombert wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 07:55:52PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Could we at least wait until post-Helsinki? There's a session on the DFSG planned, and it would be helpful to gain a better idea of what the not-on-legal part of the

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-26 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 24 May 2005 15:53:29 +0100 Matthew Garrett wrote: Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I disagree with that. Debian is an online organisation and discussion and decision need to happen online. Noone is prevented to read debian-legal. People are heavily discouraged from

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please try and avoid non-costructive criticism. It's true that debian-legal often experiences what can be seen as noise or interesting discussions, depending on your point of view, mood, and temperature... but calling it masturbation is a bit rude,

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Florian Weimer wrote: QPL is usually considered free, but its use is discouraged. An additional exception, as granted by OCaml for example, can improve things. Even though the license says this: You must ensure that all recipients of the

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-24 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 03:53:29PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I disagree with that. Debian is an online organisation and discussion and decision need to happen online. Noone is prevented to read debian-legal. People are heavily discouraged

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wait, the QPL (with no additional permission and a choice of venue) is *not* DFSG-free (many long discussions were hold on debian-legal last summer, IIRC). This is just bullshit. A few people thinking it's not free does not make it non-free. -- ciao, Marco -- To

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-23 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 09:04:52PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wait, the QPL (with no additional permission and a choice of venue) is *not* DFSG-free (many long discussions were hold on debian-legal last summer, IIRC). This is just bullshit. A few people thinking

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-22 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 22 May 2005 05:58:41 +0200 Florian Weimer wrote: QPL is usually considered free, but its use is discouraged. Wait, the QPL (with no additional permission and a choice of venue) is *not* DFSG-free (many long discussions were hold on debian-legal last summer, IIRC). Based on what has

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wait, the QPL (with no additional permission and a choice of venue) is *not* DFSG-free (many long discussions were hold on debian-legal last summer, IIRC). There's disagreement over that. Based on what has been stated and on

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-22 Thread MJ Ray
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I think a bug should be filed immediately... Could we at least wait until post-Helsinki? There's a session on the DFSG planned, and it would be helpful to gain a better idea of what the not-on-legal part

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 22 May 2005, Matthew Garrett wrote: Could we at least wait until post-Helsinki? There's a session on the DFSG planned, and it would be helpful to gain a better idea of what the not-on-legal part of the project think about these sort of issues. Have you had a chance to outline this

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Florian Weimer wrote: * Roberto C. Sanchez: I have been recently checking out packages up for adoption or already orphaned. In the process I came across regexplorer [0]. Here are the dependencies of regexplorer and their respective licenses (as I understand it): * libc6 (LGPL) * libgcc1

Re: GPL License question

2004-12-27 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 08:56:22PM +, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: The output of gcc is not covered by the licence that covers gcc. That's not strictly true. The license of gcc explicitly permits any and all use of any code generated by gcc, and makes no restrictions on it. There's no

Re: GPL License question

2004-12-27 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 12:46:09AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 08:56:22PM +, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: The output of gcc is not covered by the licence that covers gcc. That's not strictly true. The license of gcc explicitly permits any and all use of any

GPL License question

2004-12-07 Thread Tom deL
Hello all, A product has piqued my interest and claims to be GPL but the disclaimers and general tone of their license explanation gives me pause. Any opinions of how truly open source this project is would be greatly appreciated: http://easyco.com/initiative/openqm/opensource/faq.htm In

Re: GPL License question

2004-12-07 Thread Josh Triplett
Tom deL wrote: A product has piqued my interest and claims to be GPL but the disclaimers and general tone of their license explanation gives me pause. Any opinions of how truly open source this project is would be greatly appreciated: http://easyco.com/initiative/openqm/opensource/faq.htm

Re: GPL License question

2004-12-07 Thread Tom deL
Josh, thank you for taking the time to point me to some great reading! -Tom Josh Triplett wrote: Tom deL wrote: A product has piqued my interest and claims to be GPL but the disclaimers and general tone of their license explanation gives me pause. Any opinions of how truly open source

Re: Bug: 111609 RFP for cathedral-book; license question

2003-04-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 09:26:52PM -0400, Jay Bonci wrote: When looking at the RFP for cathedral-book at #111609, the license is mentioned as the Open Publication License 2.0. The only specific mention I see of that is at: http://opencontent.org/opl.shtml and

Bug: 111609 RFP for cathedral-book; license question

2003-04-07 Thread Jay Bonci
When looking at the RFP for cathedral-book at #111609, the license is mentioned as the Open Publication License 2.0. The only specific mention I see of that is at: http://opencontent.org/opl.shtml and http://opencontent.org/openpub http://opensource.org/licenses/ doesn't mention anything about

Re: JpGraph License Question [From the author]

2003-03-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 11:04:21PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: First, you need to decide whether you want to allow internal business use under your gratis license option. If not, there's no reason to talk more, because your licensing will never be DFSG-free then. Otherwise, the next thing to

Re: JpGraph License Question [From the author]

2003-03-17 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a person who does not feel that the QPL is DFSG-free, I should offer my clarfication of the above. For the record, and for the benefit of the JpGraph author, I should probably state that after having closely read Branden's objections to the QPL, I

Re: JpGraph License Question [From the author]

2003-03-16 Thread JpGraph
Hi again, Yes you are probably right. The whole license thing is rather murky. May I ask you for some advice? My goal with some kind of license setup for JpGraph is * have a clear no-nonsense license * to make the library free for all open source users * to guarantee that it stays free and

Re: JpGraph License Question [From the author]

2003-03-16 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
JpGraph [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My goal with some kind of license setup for JpGraph is I'm not a lawyer and cannot give legal advice. The obvious thing to do is to license the library under the GPL to everyone and offer an alternative non-free licence to companies that want to use it as part of a

Re: JpGraph License Question [From the author]

2003-03-16 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit JpGraph [EMAIL PROTECTED] May I ask you for some advice? Sure. The current setup with standard vs. pro-license is definitely not ideal but so far is the only thing I have been able to come up with that seems, to sort of, work. We have no problem with dual-licensing schemes in

Re: JpGraph License Question [From the author]

2003-03-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
JpGraph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * to guarantee that it stays free and that the library is not re-packaged and then sold by some other companies. If by free you mean available at no cost, then free software isn't for you. Free software is about *freedom*, not a near-zero price. One very

Re: license question

2003-01-01 Thread Santiago Vila
Michael Zehrer wrote: is the following license ok with the DFSG? If not, what should be changed/added? [...] Permission to use this material for evaluation, copy this material for your own use, and distribute the copies via publically accessible on-line media, without fee, is hereby granted

Re: license question

2003-01-01 Thread Jakob Bohm
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 01:49:53PM +0100, Michael Zehrer wrote: Hi all, is the following license ok with the DFSG? If not, what should be changed/added? Michael --- /* Copyright (c) 1994-2000 Yutaka Sato and

Re: license question regarding public domain

2002-12-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
And now I wonder if License: public domain in debian/copyright is enough for a DFSG free package. Public domain is not a license; it is not copyrighted. The issue is that the author needs to guarantee that he deliberately abandoned his copyright, because otherwise he has copyright by

Re: License question

2002-11-04 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not really used to reading english language licences but I have been asked if JasPer (http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper/) would be able to make it into Debian. Since I'm sure someone of you knows much better than I do, is this licence free

OpenCard license question

2002-03-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
Hello. I am interested in packaging the OpenCard Framework for use with the Debian GNU/Linux operating system (www.debian.org). Debian contains only free software, as defined by the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG), available from http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines I

Re: license question and problems

2001-06-13 Thread Uwe Hermann
Hi Hussain, On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:18:38PM +0100, Muhammad Hussain Yusuf wrote: Hi, I have an ITP for a program (gdis, which is GPL) which requires another program (babel) whose license is a bit vague, at least to me. I intend to create binary for babel from the babel source in a sub

Re: License question about prag

2001-03-29 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1) Source code for the entire package must be distributed with any derived work incorporating ANY part of PRAG. is a little vague though. Does he mean that I can not take a .c file and place it in another work? What he presumably means

RE: License question about prag

2001-03-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Could you please comment on this, or point me to other locations where I could ask? You can find a copy of the original license at http://www.copyleft.de/pub/author/fabian/debian/prag/Copyright sounds like yet another BSD license (tm). The wording on the first item: 1) Source code for

Re: license question

1999-10-05 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Ristuccia wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 03:48:51PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: What do people think of the following licence? I think there are tons of problems, and I'd like a laundry-list of them to bring to the author's attention. There's a few issues with this license that I

Re: license question

1999-10-05 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Ristuccia wrote: If we disqualify breaking the law as a field of endeavor, this provision still violates the DFSG. Remember, what's called breaking the law where I live (selling marijuana, prostitution) might be called making a living somewhere else. The license only speaks about

Re: license question

1999-10-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 07:06:45PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Brian Ristuccia wrote: If we disqualify breaking the law as a field of endeavor, this provision still violates the DFSG. Remember, what's called breaking the law where I live (selling marijuana, prostitution) might be called making

Re: license question

1999-10-05 Thread Raul Miller
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 07:06:45PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Brian Ristuccia wrote: If we disqualify breaking the law as a field of endeavor, this provision still violates the DFSG. Remember, what's called breaking the law where I live (selling marijuana, prostitution) might be called making

Re: license question

1999-10-05 Thread Henning Makholm
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: quote 1) Any use of analog which is illegal under international or local law is forbidden by this licence. Any such action is the sole responsibility of the person committing the action. [Some jurisdictions regulate the collection and processing

Re: license question

1999-10-05 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Joey Hess wrote: Brian Ristuccia wrote: 5. The documentation is completely and totally non-free Nod. Do you think removing the documentation from the package constitutes modifying it, and would violate the license? Removing the documentation would violate this: