Re: logo license with debian - no warranty missing?

2010-06-30 Thread MJ Ray
Charles Plessy wrote: 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 the plaintiff. Here

Re: Providing an openssl-linked pycurl

2010-06-30 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 29 Jun 2010, Guido Trotter wrote: [snip] Now, what would be the status of (unmodified) GPL python software which imports pycurl? Is this considered the same as linking, and would it have to make sure it uses the GNUTLS version, by depending on it? Without having any idea about the

Re: Providing an openssl-linked pycurl

2010-06-30 Thread Guido Trotter
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:00:30PM +0530, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: Hi, Without having any idea about the specific issues between Python and OpenSSL and their licences, would this have any bearing on your question? The issues appear to be related:

Re: Providing an openssl-linked pycurl

2010-06-30 Thread Guido Trotter
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 06:59:01AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Hi, 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

Re: Providing an openssl-linked pycurl

2010-06-30 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:57:24 +0100, Guido Trotter написа: - pycurl is released under the LGPL (2.1 or later) or a MIT/X derivative license based on the one of curl itself. Neither of these licenses is incompatible with OpenSSL, and as for curl itself we should be able to provide a

Re: logo license with debian - no warranty missing?

2010-06-30 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:50:00 +0100 MJ Ray wrote: Charles Plessy wrote: [...] It is the addition of extra clauses and vague disclaimers that sometimes make licenses non-free (clauses like ‘do not kill people with my software’), so let's resist to temptation of making our license

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

2010-06-30 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:49:39 +0200 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: [...] 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

Re: Providing an openssl-linked pycurl

2010-06-30 Thread MJ Ray
Yavor Doganov wrote: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:57:24 +0100, Guido Trotter Now, what would be the status of (unmodified) GPL python software which imports pycurl? According to the FSF licensing team, such software must be under GPL+OpenSSL exception.

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

2010-06-30 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 23:27:41 Francesco Poli wrote: Actually it was already packaged long ago, I'm just packaging the latest version since the maintainer has been unattending it for years. This is even more appreciated: in many cases, adopting an (officially or de-facto) orphaned