Re: logo license with debian - no warranty missing?

2010-06-29 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 27.06.2010 15:13, schrieb Ben Finney: [ SVG logo without no warranty waiver ] This does seem to be a valid concern. The SVG standard allows for documents to contain executable code for animation with ECMAScript URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/animate.html#DOMAnimationExample. So that

Providing an openssl-linked pycurl

2010-06-29 Thread Guido Trotter
Hi debian-legal, Some people, who submitted or commented on bug #515200 would like to have a version of pycurl linked with OpenSSL, mostly because of features provided. Before going ahead with that, the maintainer asked to have some opinion from -legal, so with this post I'm trying to solicit

Re: logo license with debian - no warranty missing?

2010-06-29 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 29.06.2010 14:49, schrieb Ben Finney: [ SVG logo without no warranty waiver ] I think it would be prudent to add a warranty disclaimer like those found in Expat license terms or similar. Why do we need a warranty waiver for a feature, we don't actually use? Because we also allow

Re: Re: logo license with debian - no warranty missing?

2010-06-29 Thread Pompee William
Hello, I understand the fact this feature isn't currently used and sounds like FUD, but why such a clause does exist for the logo without Debian? It assumes that in case of damages implying the use of the logo, the Debian Project do not provide any warranty like for any software as well as it

Re: Re: logo license with debian - no warranty missing?

2010-06-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 21:12:24 +0200, Pompee William wrote: Hello, I understand the fact this feature isn't currently used and sounds like FUD, but why such a clause does exist for the logo without Debian? It assumes that in case of damages implying the use of the logo, the Debian

Re: logo license with debian - no warranty missing?

2010-06-29 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:58:13 +0100 Julien Cristau wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 21:12:24 +0200, Pompee William wrote: Hello, I understand the fact this feature isn't currently used and sounds like FUD, but why such a clause does exist for the logo without Debian? It assumes that

Plugins for non-free software in orig.tar.gz

2010-06-29 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hello, (Please CC me in the replies, I'm not subscribed to the ML). I packaged Aqsis recently: http://packages.debian.org/source/unstable/aqsis and it contains a kind of plugin, adaptor or something like that for a software called Houdini [1], which is a high-end 3D animation package

Re: logo license with debian - no warranty missing?

2010-06-29 Thread Ben Finney
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl alexan...@schmehl.info writes: I still don't understand. Is it prudent to have such a clause, because someone else could embed a bad script, to be sure we are safe? That's what I'm saying. As I see it, the potential for legal confusion over who is implicitly

Re: Plugins for non-free software in orig.tar.gz

2010-06-29 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:08:00 +0200 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: Hello, Hello! :-) (Please CC me in the replies, I'm not subscribed to the ML). Done. I packaged Aqsis recently: http://packages.debian.org/source/unstable/aqsis Thank you for doing so: it looks like an

Re: logo license with debian - no warranty missing?

2010-06-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 08:31:52AM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : I assume “how could that happen” there refers to the legal confusion. I don't pretend to be an expert, but “The Debian project is a major copyright holder in this work which caused damage to our systems, and there's no warranty

Re: Plugins for non-free software in orig.tar.gz

2010-06-29 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hi, On Wednesday 30 June 2010 00:48:45 Francesco Poli wrote: I packaged Aqsis recently: http://packages.debian.org/source/unstable/aqsis Thank you for doing so: it looks like an interesting tool... Actually it was already packaged long ago, I'm just packaging the latest version since the

Re: logo license with debian - no warranty missing?

2010-06-29 Thread Ben Finney
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: it would be much more productive if this scenario would be accompanied with some data and facts about which law in which country make the non-warranty disclaimer necessary, exemplified by cases where these laws have successfully been used in court by

Re: Providing an openssl-linked pycurl

2010-06-29 Thread MJ Ray
Guido Trotter wrote: According to my understandment: - OpenSSL is released under a license which is GPL incompatible, unless an exception to the GPL is used in the software compiled with it. Debian cannot distribute GPL software released under the unmodified GPL and linked against