Re: RFS: spim

2009-10-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Mackenzie Morgan maco...@gmail.com writes: The license is as follows:     You may make copies of SPIM for your own use and modify those copies.     All copies of SPIM must retain my name and copyright notice.    

Re: RFS: spim

2009-10-19 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: This grants no permission to redistribute. What license from the copyright holder does the Debian project have to redistribute this in ‘non-free’? If the answer is “nothing

Re: RFS: spim

2009-10-19 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Monday 19 October 2009 3:42:31 am Ben Finney wrote: Since it seems the copyright holder wants to have as little hassle from copyright licensing as possible, I would suggest the terms of the Expat license URL:http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt as being brief, easily-understood, and

Re: RFS: spim

2009-10-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 06:42:31PM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/s/spim/current/copyright Not only that, it isn't an explicit statement from the copyright holder at all; it's someone else reporting in

Re: RFS: spim

2009-10-19 Thread Ben Finney
[sending again, this time with Mackenzie's requested Cc] Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: IMO, the statement isn't particularly clear and I would not want Debian to rely on it. Not only that, it isn't an explicit statement from the copyright

Re: RFS: spim

2009-10-19 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: IMO, the statement isn't particularly clear and I would not want Debian to rely on it. Not only that, it isn't an explicit statement from the copyright holder at all; it's someone else reporting in their own

Re: RFS: spim

2009-10-19 Thread Ben Finney
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: Le Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 06:42:31PM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : Not only that, it isn't an explicit statement from the copyright holder at all; it's someone else reporting in their own words: […] That's far from what we normally require: explicit

Re: RFS: spim

2009-10-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: I think it's unlikely that an alert ftpmaster would today allow it into the archive in such a state, and I'm alerting the maintainer of this. In case you missed it, spim has been removed from Debian for a long time

Re: New Adobe CMaps license free enough for Debian?

2009-10-19 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:05:44 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 04:03:53PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] Mmmmh, it seems that you didn't *fully* quote the text of the new license... I believe that I quoted the _license_ part of a CMap source header, deliberately

Re: New Adobe CMaps license free enough for Debian?

2009-10-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:32:36AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:05:44 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 04:03:53PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] Mmmmh, it seems that you didn't *fully* quote the text of the new license... I believe that I