Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 02:08:13 +, Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But the DFSG are intended to be a more detailed description of what free software (a term initially defined by the FSF) is. Whatever gave you the idea? The DFSG

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-22 Thread Michael Poole
Matthew Garrett writes: Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 02:08:13 +, Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But the DFSG are intended to be a more detailed description of what free software (a term initially defined by the FSF) is.

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Garrett writes: At no point during the DFSG discussion does anyone seem to suggest that we're redefining free software. Rather, we're making it clear what aspects of freedom we care about. It's supposed to lead to pretty much the same end result.

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-22 Thread Michael Poole
Matthew Garrett writes: I'm discussing definition of free software. The FSF don't believe that the GFDL is a free software license. They call it free for something that Debian calls software. Why not harp over the ambiguous usage of software rather than its subset free software? I cannot

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Garrett writes: I'm discussing definition of free software. The FSF don't believe that the GFDL is a free software license. They call it free for something that Debian calls software. Why not harp over the ambiguous usage of software rather

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-22 Thread Michael Poole
Matthew Garrett writes: Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Garrett writes: I'm discussing definition of free software. The FSF don't believe that the GFDL is a free software license. They call it free for something that Debian calls software. Why not harp over the

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Garrett writes: We changed the social contract explicitly because not everyone defines software to cover things like documentation. The FSF have made it clear that they don't consider the two to be the same catagory for a very long time. You

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-22 Thread Michael Poole
Matthew Garrett writes: Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Garrett writes: We changed the social contract explicitly because not everyone defines software to cover things like documentation. The FSF have made it clear that they don't consider the two to be the same catagory

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Garrett writes: The fact that different people mean different things when they say software was enough for us to stop using the word software where the distinction was important. The logical follow-on is that we should either get people to agree

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-21 Thread Matthew Garrett
Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it's at least one of the reasons both licenses are considered non-free. (Despite us still shipping a moderately large body of work under both in main) -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-21 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't the choice of venue clause one of the reasons for MPL to be considered problematic for Debian? If it is bad for MPL, then it is bad for QPL too, right? Yes, except that a large number of people do not consider it a problem (with the ftpmasters being among them,

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 02:08:13 +, Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is completely irrelevant. The FSF doesn't use the DFSG as freeness guidelines. But the DFSG are intended to be a more detailed description of what free software (a term

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the subject of my former email quite clearly states QPL? Then you do not need to worry, because the QPL is a free license. -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-20 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the subject of my former email quite clearly states QPL? Then you do not need to worry, because the QPL is a free license. Readers should beware that Marco holds this opinion in known opposition to most other people on

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-20 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 07:37, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the subject of my former email quite clearly states QPL? Then you do not need to worry, because the QPL is a free license. Readers should beware that Marco

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-20 Thread Michael Poole
Wesley J. Landaker writes: Readers should also note that the FSF believes[1] that the QPL is a free license; but it's not GPL compatible. This does not mean a lot. They believe the same thing of the GNU FDL, but the FDL is non-DFSG-free in the general case. Michael Poole -- To

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Readers should beware that Marco holds this opinion in known opposition to most other people on this list. Readers should beware that this is a lie, and that the people believing that the QPL is not a free license are an handful of people who extended the meaning of the

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-20 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:06:15 -0700 Wesley J. Landaker wrote: On Tuesday 20 December 2005 07:37, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the subject of my former email quite clearly states QPL? Then you do not need to worry,

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is completely irrelevant. The FSF doesn't use the DFSG as freeness guidelines. But the DFSG are intended to be a more detailed description of what free software (a term initially defined by the FSF) is.

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-20 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 02:08:13AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: But the DFSG are intended to be a more detailed description of what free software (a term initially defined by the FSF) is. If the DFSG are wildly divergent from the FSF's viewpoint, we need to figure out how and why. Although

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-20 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Glenn Maynard wrote: And that's where they really differ: different people implement them. Is to redistribute the work, you must agree to a venue of Norway Isn't the choice of venue clause one of the reasons for MPL to be considered problematic for Debian? If it is bad for MPL, then it is bad

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-20 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 08:46:38AM +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote: Glenn Maynard wrote: And that's where they really differ: different people implement them. Is to redistribute the work, you must agree to a venue of Norway Isn't the choice of venue clause one of the reasons for MPL to be

QPL and non-free

2005-12-19 Thread Lars Bahner
I think the subject of my former email quite clearly states QPL? ;) Bahner -- http://lars.bahner.com; Voice: +47 92884492; Postal: N-3870 Fyresdal pub 1024D/54ECB8AF 2004-01-13 Lars Bahner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0765 31CE 6223 B28C 1A64 4F7A 9972 7C14 54EC B8AF sub

QPL and non-free

2005-12-18 Thread Lars Bahner
Hi all, please cc: me as I am not subscribed to debian-legal. I have filed ITPs for some packages sancp, barnyard and sguil, all of which are somewhat interdependent. I might get sguil GPL'ed but it seems that there is a problem with sancp and barnyard, as their authors doesn't answer my email,

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-18 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Lars Bahner [EMAIL PROTECTED] So my Plan B is to stick these packages in non-free. Would that be ok? Depends. What is their current license? The only information we have is that you have not been able to get a GPL license, but that tells nothing about which license they _do_ have. --