Re: libfcgi-perl copyright issue

2016-03-09 Thread Riley Baird
On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 10:54:07 -0500 Tony Rutkowski wrote: > That should read, of course, defendants. > > On 2016-03-09 10:53 AM, Tony Rutkowski wrote: > > So in a cause of action against Debian for > > infringement, who are the plaintiffs? > Depends. But we're concerned

Re: libfcgi-perl copyright issue

2016-03-09 Thread Tony Rutkowski
That should read, of course, defendants. On 2016-03-09 10:53 AM, Tony Rutkowski wrote: So in a cause of action against Debian for infringement, who are the plaintiffs?

Re: libfcgi-perl copyright issue

2016-03-09 Thread Tony Rutkowski
So in a cause of action against Debian for infringement, who are the plaintiffs? The website describes it as an association of individuals, but is rather evasive about the actors other than the "author's" listed on the site. The debian.org site is hosted in the U.S., so that provides convenient

Re: libfcgi-perl copyright issue

2016-03-09 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, Tony Rutkowski wrote: > Doesn't this entail getting agreement among all > the Linux distributors as well, not just Debian? No, this is something to be fixed upstream, and then it will of course apply to all downstreams. *If* it is really a problem, which I doubt. > On

Re: libfcgi-perl copyright issue

2016-03-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 10:46 PM, Tony Rutkowski wrote: > Doesn't this entail getting agreement among all > the Linux distributors as well, not just Debian? Linux distributors hold no copyright in libfcgi-perl, only Open Market, Inc. does, so they are the ones who need to agree, not Debian or any

Re: libfcgi-perl copyright issue

2016-03-09 Thread Tony Rutkowski
Doesn't this entail getting agreement among all the Linux distributors as well, not just Debian? --t On 2016-03-09 4:42 AM, Graham Knop wrote: Based on my reading, the libfcgi-perl debian package has a licensing issue. The base package includes a file LICENSE.TERMS, which shows a license

Re: libfcgi-perl copyright issue

2016-03-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Graham Knop wrote: > This would appear to me to be "explicitly disclaimed" as not following > the LICENSE.TERMS license. And also certainly not following the DFSG. > > While I believe this conflict was an error in the initial release of > this code (nearly 20

libfcgi-perl copyright issue

2016-03-09 Thread Graham Knop
Based on my reading, the libfcgi-perl debian package has a licensing issue. The base package includes a file LICENSE.TERMS, which shows a license roughly equivalent to the MIT license. It does however include the following phrase: The following terms apply to all files associated with the