Re: DFSG analysis of default LDP license

2003-05-20 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 01:52:57AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 02:41, Branden Robinson wrote: Colin Watson helpfully provided this information in a recent mail: 4. The location of the original unmodified document be identified. I

Re: DFSG analysis of default LDP license

2003-05-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 02:41, Branden Robinson wrote: Colin Watson helpfully provided this information in a recent mail: 4. The location of the original unmodified document be identified. I feel that this clause might be problematic in a way that clauses 1, 2, and 3

Re: DFSG analysis of default LDP license

2003-05-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 08:20:57PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Well, I'm willing to go along with this, but it means adding yet another exception to our no invariant text rule, in addition to the five I already enumerated. I'm having a hard time with the idea of calling a peice of text that

Re: DFSG analysis of default LDP license

2003-05-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 05:35:43PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Branden Robinson wrote: [... mail rearranged...] I don't see any flagrant DFSG violations in the above license, but I think some requests for clarification might be a good idea. So you're using BUG to mean this should probably be

Re: DFSG analysis of default LDP license

2003-05-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 01:41:30AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: BECAUSE THE CONTENT OF THE WORK IS FREELY MODIFIABLE BY ALL THIRD PARTIES, THERE IS NO WARRANTY THAT ANY REPRESENTATIONS MADE WITH IN ARE MADE BY, ON BEHALF OF, OR WITH THE CONSENT OF THE AUTHOR(S) OR COPYRIGHT HOLDER(S). ANY

Re: DFSG analysis of default LDP license

2003-05-14 Thread Joey Hess
Branden Robinson wrote: It's annoying, but does not really make it not free, I hope. Remember that we dealt with the FSF snail mail address changing; said address is in the GPL and is in copyright statements that point to the GPL. Many licenses and statements of copyright contain

DFSG analysis of default LDP license

2003-05-13 Thread Branden Robinson
Colin Watson helpfully provided this information in a recent mail: The default LDP licence (one which many documents use explicitly and which it's been agreed applies to any documents which don't specify a licence) is a little longer but still quite reasonable, and is also more or less a

Re: DFSG analysis of default LDP license

2003-05-13 Thread Joey Hess
Branden Robinson wrote: 4. The location of the original unmodified document be identified. BUG: Walter Landry has pointed out: [The GNU FDL] requires me to preserve the network location of where Transparent versions can be found for four years. Even if it is