Re: AGPL request for summary of recent discussion

2013-09-01 Thread MJ Ray
On 29/08/13 16:15, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Francesco, [stuff] Look, there's a command in email software for sending a reply to one person. Reply to List or Reply to All is not it - if anyone is going to lecture others on how to improve your communication behaviour, start by using the correct

rtl-sdr packaging: Unable to find copyrtight holders for some files

2013-09-01 Thread Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)
Hello! I packaged rtl-sdr [1] a while ago but I'm having a serious legal issue. Some files related to DVB-T tuners don't have any headers and upstream [2] didn't answer my call for help... tuner_fc2580.{c,h} seem to come from a Terratec driver based on linux v4l project. I found a tarball

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-09-01 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 11:30:31PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Hi Paul, Frankly speaking, Debian's opinion on the CC licenses does not exist. There is the empirical observation that this or that CC license is accepted or rejected from our archive, with both false positives and false

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-09-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 11:39:16AM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte a écrit : Perhaps you'd be interested in helping: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/01/msg00043.html I can not write your explanations for you, sorry. I have read the diff between the versions 2.0, 2.5 and 3.0 mutiple

Re: rtl-sdr packaging: Unable to find copyrtight holders for some files

2013-09-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 03:31:00PM +0200, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) wrote: Hello! I packaged rtl-sdr [1] a while ago but I'm having a serious legal issue. Some files related to DVB-T tuners don't have any headers and upstream [2] didn't answer my call for help... tuner_fc2580.{c,h} seem to

Re: AGPL request for summary of recent discussion

2013-09-01 Thread Thorsten Glaser
MJ Ray writes: Look, […] My reply was specifically to this newsgroup, a long-needed “request” to shut up, and explicitly *not* soliciting *your* personal(!) opinion on those licences either. I do not require the “added value”, and this newsgroup is spammed enough by the likes of you two.

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-09-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
Francesco Poli wrote: On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 14:37:24 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote: [...] You have a right to your own opinion. You do *not* have a right to express it *on this list*. The purpose of this list is to provide guidance to maintainers and upstreams regarding *Debian's* definition of

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-09-01 Thread Ben Finney
Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com writes: Really, by now the regulars here all know what you think about various licenses and, frankly, we don't care to hear about it any more. Is this forum only for the regulars, then? Much of the value would, IMO, be for newcomers raising an issue here even if