Re: [Fwd: Re: [gNewSense-users] PFV call for help.]

2008-01-30 Thread Michael Below
Am Mo 28 Jan 2008 09:25:21 CET schrieb Sean Kellogg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I cannot speak to the British system, so John my very well be right in that context, but in the United States the critical question is whether the advice being given is of a specific or general nature. In Germany the

Re: [Fwd: Re: [gNewSense-users] PFV call for help.]

2008-01-30 Thread Michael Below
Am Mo 28 Jan 2008 09:27:54 CET schrieb John Halton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Perhaps first of all we need to ask if there is a legal system on earth that would regard contributing to this mailing list as constituting legal advice in the first place. Okay: Yes there is. At least the German one, and,

Possible copyright issues

2008-01-30 Thread David Paleino
Hi *, I'm packaging a new software for the Debian-Med group, and the source shows this statement: /* This code may be used and modified for non-commercial purposes*/ /* but redistribution in any form requires written permission. */ This is clearly non-DFSG-free. I've

Re: RFS: Thousand Parsec packages.

2008-01-30 Thread Ben Finney
Tristan Seligmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Copyright notices are only valid if they contain all three of: * The word Copyright and/or the copyright symbol © * The year(s) the copyright began in the work * The name of the legal entity that holds

Re: RFS: Thousand Parsec packages.

2008-01-30 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Ben Finney wrote: My understanding is that a copyright declaration on the work makes it easier to prove to a court that the recipient knows that the work *is* copyrighted to the specified entity, and that the copyright is current. Furthermore, in the event that a work is infringed, if the

Re: RFS: Thousand Parsec packages.

2008-01-30 Thread Tristan Seligmann
* Arnoud Engelfriet [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-01-30 15:57:06 +0100]: Ben Finney wrote: My understanding is that a copyright declaration on the work makes it easier to prove to a court that the recipient knows that the work *is* copyrighted to the specified entity, and that the copyright is

Re: RFS: Thousand Parsec packages.

2008-01-30 Thread Ben Finney
Tristan Seligmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm. This is frustrating, because on the one hand, it's probably worth avoiding an innocent infringement defense; on the other hand, updating copyright notices every year seems like a rather tedious task that people typically don't ever get around

Re: RFS: Thousand Parsec packages.

2008-01-30 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 04:33:19 pm Tristan Seligmann wrote: Hmm. This is frustrating, because on the one hand, it's probably worth avoiding an innocent infringement defense; on the other hand, updating copyright notices every year seems like a rather tedious task that people typically

Re: Update

2008-01-30 Thread UPDATE

non-free application linked to Qt.

2008-01-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear debian-legal, A non-free program for which I maintain a package has changed its UI toolkit from lesstif to Qt. The program is free for non-commercial use, and upstream payed for a Qt licence. I understand that producing binaries within Debian would be an infringement of the Qt licence.

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