Implicit granting of rights? (was: Bug#363061: tetex-extra: palatcm.sty is non-free)

2006-04-18 Thread Frank Küster
Hi debian-legal, Ralf Stubner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 15:14 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: , | %%% Copyright (C) 1994 Aloysius G. Helminck. All rights reserved. | %%% Permission is granted to to customize the declarations in this | %%% file to serve the needs of

Re: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-04-18 Thread dann frazier
(Top posting to continue current flow) I've added the DPL to the CC list. aj: do you have an opinion here, or do you think its worth delegating this decision to someone? See #256332 and the debian-legal archive for background. On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:46:02PM +1000, Andrew Donnellan

Re: Bug#256332: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-04-18 Thread dann frazier
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 10:37:40AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Though it maybe feasible to drop older db versions from the next release (I do not know if such plans exist), I believe we would still need to resolve this in an update to the current stable release

Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license status

2006-04-18 Thread Adriaan Peeters
Hello, I found a few references in the archives regarding cc-by-sa, but the comments on [1] seem to be outdated, can/will this page be updated with comments on the 2.5 version of the licenses? Since some of the debian-legal people are in contact with CC [2], do you have any idea of a timeframe

Re: [FW: Proposal: Remove GPL boilerplate at the top of every G2 file]

2006-04-18 Thread MJ Ray
Michael Schultheiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any reason to keep the ~865 byte header in each file? The GPL text says: : It is safest to attach them to the start of each source file to most : effectively convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have : at least the copyright line

Re: cube-data package

2006-04-18 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 12:39:26 -0700 Josh Triplett wrote: Gonéri Le Bouder wrote: [...] What i want to do: From source: - cube-client - cube-server From data: - cube-client-nonfree - cube-server-nonfree - cube-data Seems reasonable. If enough Free data existed to

Re: cube-data package

2006-04-18 Thread Gonéri Le Bouder
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 12:52, Francesco Poli wrote: On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 12:39:26 -0700 Josh Triplett wrote: Gonéri Le Bouder wrote: [...] What i want to do: From source: - cube-client - cube-server From data: - cube-client-nonfree - cube-server-nonfree

Re: cube-data package

2006-04-18 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 4/18/06, Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 12:39:26 -0700 Josh Triplett wrote: Seems reasonable. If enough Free data existed to play the game (even with a vastly reduced dataset), you could split the data into cube-data and cube-data-nonfree packages, and

Re: cube-data package

2006-04-18 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:32:09 +0300 Eddy Petri__or wrote: On 4/18/06, Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] An alternative could be persuading upstream to relicense both engine (client+server) and data in a DFSG-free manner. For instance, everything could be re-released under the

Re: cube-data package

2006-04-18 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:25:47 +0200 Gonéri Le Bouder wrote: On Tuesday 18 April 2006 12:52, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] An alternative could be persuading upstream to relicense both engine (client+server) and data in a DFSG-free manner. For instance, everything could be re-released under

What does disclaiming a copyright mean?

2006-04-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear debian-legal subscribers, As I am not a native speaker, I face difficulty of understanding the following sentence: Burkhard Morgenstern hereby disclaims all copyright interest in DIALIGN, written by Burkhard Morgenstern and Said Abdeddaim. It is from the licence of the dialign

Re: What does disclaiming a copyright mean?

2006-04-18 Thread Andrew Donnellan
Disclaiming a copyright means releasing into the public domain. (as in no copyright at all). IANAL, but looking at what the license file says, I would assume it to be copyrighted by Said Abdeddaim and released under the LGPL, but the parts written by Burkhard Morgenstern are PD. andrew On

Re: What does disclaiming a copyright mean?

2006-04-18 Thread Seth David Schoen
Andrew Donnellan writes: Disclaiming a copyright means releasing into the public domain. (as in no copyright at all). IANAL, but looking at what the license file says, I would assume it to be copyrighted by Said Abdeddaim and released under the LGPL, but the parts written by Burkhard

Re: What does disclaiming a copyright mean?

2006-04-18 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 4/19/06, Seth David Schoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Donnellan writes: Disclaiming a copyright means releasing into the public domain. (as in no copyright at all). IANAL, but looking at what the license file says, I would assume it to be copyrighted by Said Abdeddaim and