Re: Question about a custom license from dictconfig

2014-08-27 Thread MJ Ray
Riley Baird wrote: My intuition would tell me that other people named Vinay Sajip would not be able to use their name in advertising or publicity pertaining to the software. However, this same logic would also apply to everything written under 3-clause BSD, the only difference being that the

Re: Upstream GPL-3+ vs debian/* GPL-2+

2014-08-27 Thread Eriberto Mota
Thanks all for explanations. This question is clear to me now. Regards, Eriberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Debian and the Vinay Sajip License

2014-08-27 Thread Riley Baird
Hi Vinay Sajip, I'm from Debian GNU/Linux. On our legal mailing list, we've been having concerns about the license that you put most of your software under. Essentially, we think that when you say the name of Vinay Sajip not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the

Re: Question about a custom license from dictconfig

2014-08-27 Thread Riley Baird
Also, how does not allowing the usage of a name in advertising make it non-DFSG free? Discrimination against named persons fails DFSG 5 for sure, doesn't it? It might also fail 1 or 3 because it seems like the reverse of licences that REQUIRE authors to disclose their names, which I think