Re: ELPA license, LGPL + additional restrictions

2012-11-04 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 3 Nov 2012 20:31:57 +0100 Michael Banck wrote: [...] After thinking about this some more, I guess their fear might be that people modify and redistribute their ELPA library as part of a bigger GPL project. It's possible... As the LGPL-GPL relicensing seems to be a one-way street,

Re: Bug#687693: ca-certificates: Cacert License is missing

2012-11-04 Thread Michael Shuler
On 11/03/2012 08:15 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 03:28:08PM -0500, Michael Shuler wrote: After reading the -legal thread, comments above, the CAcert mailing list thread, the Fedora explanation, and carefully reading the licensing myself, the cautious side of me says the

Re: Bug#687693: ca-certificates: Cacert License is missing

2012-11-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 02:56:27PM -0600, Michael Shuler wrote: Among other suggestions, Francesco Poli recommended including a verbatim copy of this license. You should not. If the license has no legal force, you should not propagate it and give people the impression that it does. The

flattr this images

2012-11-04 Thread chrysn
hello debian-legal, as paul wise pointed out in march[1], some programs include flattr this or paypal donation buttons. i found that thread looking up what to do with my openscad package, which since recently includes a flattr this image. as i see it, my options as a packager are: 1. keep the

Re: Bug#687693: ca-certificates: Cacert License is missing

2012-11-04 Thread Michael Shuler
Control: tags -1 wontfix On 11/04/2012 03:23 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: I hereby grant you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to eat cheese with salami, subject to the following conditions: - You do not use the name of debian-legal while talking with food in your mouth. -

Re: flattr this images

2012-11-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 6:14 AM, chrysn wrote: as paul wise pointed out in march[1], some programs include flattr this or paypal donation buttons. Thanks for your interest in this issue. 4. replace the image with text. probably the most viable way. has the same implications as 3., but not