Re: what license is ?

2002-09-27 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 14:53, Glenn Maynard wrote: Read it as as an additional restriction, all additional materials mentioning ... It's still a restriction, and a cumbersome one. I don't recall what makes advertising clauses DFSG-free. Unenforcability? It doesn't violate DFSG 9, because

Re: what license is ?

2002-09-27 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 11:11:42PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: I don't recall what makes advertising clauses DFSG-free. Unenforcability? It doesn't violate DFSG 9, because it's not making any claims on the other software. The advertising clause kicks in whether you distribute the software

Re: what license is ?

2002-09-27 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
OK, I was up _way_ too late... As far as the Sun one, I meant that I didn't see what was wrong with the additional paragraph Sun added... *normally* I'm more lucid that that, but those must of been a particularly bad 17 minutes. I apologize for that, and promise to get more sleep before trying

Re: what license is ?

2002-09-27 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 08:20, Santiago Vila wrote: How does it not violate DFSG 9? How it does? this software != other software If I, for example, were to write an ad for the software, I'd have to include that notice in my software. [ Consider I could write a game that has the purpose and

Re: what license is ?

2002-09-26 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 20:17, Santiago Vila wrote: This is the (in)famous advertising clause. [...] It does not prevent the program from being DFSG-free, [...] How does it not violate DFSG 9? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: what license is ?

2002-09-26 Thread Santiago Vila
On 26 Sep 2002, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 20:17, Santiago Vila wrote: This is the (in)famous advertising clause. [...] It does not prevent the program from being DFSG-free, [...] How does it not violate DFSG 9? How it does? this software != other software

Re: what license is ?

2002-09-26 Thread Samuele Giovanni Tonon
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:07:14AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 20:17, Santiago Vila wrote: This is the (in)famous advertising clause. [...] It does not prevent the program from being DFSG-free, [...] How does it not violate DFSG 9? i think that : The license

Re: what license is ?

2002-09-26 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:33:39PM +0200, Samuele Giovanni Tonon wrote: i think that : The license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with the licensed software. For example, the license must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium

Re: what license is ?

2002-09-26 Thread John Galt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26 Sep 2002, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 20:17, Santiago Vila wrote: This is the (in)famous advertising clause. [...] It does not prevent the program from being DFSG-free, [...] How does it not violate DFSG 9? You are on

what license is ?

2002-09-25 Thread Samuele Giovanni Tonon
hi, i'm making the package of a library (libevent) which has this license this looks like a derived form of BSD license anyway i don't know if i can put it under bsd license or i have to cut'n paste the license inside the copyright file (anyway it looks debian compatible) . the only difference

Re: what license is ?

2002-09-25 Thread Santiago Vila
Samuele Giovanni Tonon wrote: i'm making the package of a library (libevent) which has this license this looks like a derived form of BSD license anyway i don't know if i can put it under bsd license or i have to cut'n paste the license inside the copyright file (anyway it looks debian

Re: what license is ?

2002-09-25 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:53:20AM +0200, Samuele Giovanni Tonon wrote: hi, i'm making the package of a library (libevent) which has this license this looks like a derived form of BSD license anyway i don't know if i can put it under bsd license or i have to cut'n paste the license inside