Packaging the MeeGo stack on Debian - Use the name ?

2010-10-20 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi dear MeeGo-dev, (some CCs added for convenience and openness) I am Didier 'OdyX' Raboud, a Debian Maintainer and I am part of the pkg-meego group on Debian. Our (blurry) intent is to allow Debian users to benefit from the software that comes out of the MeeGo project. Following the Smeegol

Wording for public domain

2010-10-20 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
// To the extent possible under law, X x...@xxx // has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work. Is this wording valid to be considered as Public Domain? Thanks -- José Carlos García Sogo    js...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Wording for public domain

2010-10-20 Thread Ben Finney
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo jcs...@gmail.com writes: Is this wording valid to be considered as Public Domain? It's rather difficult to effectively place a work in the public domain. Copyright laws nowadays are extremely sticky in their applicability, and it's hard to avoid that. Try the Creative

Fit for non-free?

2010-10-20 Thread Stefan Ott
Hi! I'm currently thinking of packaging a piece of software [1, 2] that is itself licensed under the GPL but contains some data files which come with a for non-commercial use only license [3]. I *think* it should be okay to distribute these files in non-free but before I start spending time here

Re: Fit for non-free?

2010-10-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Stefan Ott ste...@ott.net wrote: [3] http://www.eveonline.com/community/fs_agreement.asp For reference, here is the full text of this agreement: AGREEMENT FOR NON-COMMERCIAL USE For Fan and News Sites, Online Radio Stations and Chat Venues Please read this

Re: Fit for non-free?

2010-10-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Stefan Ott ste...@ott.net wrote: [3] http://www.eveonline.com/community/fs_agreement.asp For reference, here is the full text of this agreement:  AGREEMENT FOR NON-COMMERCIAL USE ... Upon

Re: Fit for non-free?

2010-10-20 Thread Stefan Ott
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 04:48, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Stefan Ott ste...@ott.net wrote: [3] http://www.eveonline.com/community/fs_agreement.asp For reference, here is the full text of

Re: Fit for non-free?

2010-10-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Stefan Ott ste...@ott.net wrote: Thanks for having a look at it. What about removing non-dfsg stuff from upstream and fetching the data in postinst? Sounds acceptable for contrib. What is this data anyway? Oh noes, not *another* game! I barely manage to play

Re: Fit for non-free?

2010-10-20 Thread Ben Finney
Stefan Ott ste...@ott.net writes: Thanks for having a look at it. What about removing non-dfsg stuff from upstream and fetching the data in postinst? That would remove the package, at the least, to the ‘contrib’ area; possibly further. -- \ “I don't want to live peacefully with