Status of CC by-SA v2.5

2015-01-30 Thread Tim Haynes
Hi, I hope this is the most appropriate place for this question; if not, my apologies. I would like to check whether I can include in my project a Javascript source file, licensed under CC by-SA v2.5. The DFSGLicenses page[0] permits v3.0 and v4.0, but excludes v1.0 of this licence. The

Re: Makefile.in.in license

2015-01-30 Thread Ben Finney
Riley Baird bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch writes: I have no idea how to interpret the below license: This file file be copied and used freely without restrictions. Permission to copy is good to receive. But that grants no permission to modify, nor to redistribute; so

Re: Status of CC by-SA v2.5

2015-01-30 Thread Ben Finney
Tim Haynes thay...@openlinksw.com writes: I hope this is the most appropriate place for this question; if not, my apologies. Yes, this is a forum explicitly for discussing the legality of distributing works in the Debian system. I would like to check whether I can include in my project a

Makefile.in.in relicensing permission

2015-01-30 Thread Riley Baird
Dear Ulrich Drepper, Debian has had some concerns about the license of your file, Makefile.in.in, designed for gettext but widely used in other programs. (e.g. http://sources.debian.net/src/gtk%2B2.0/2.24.10-2/po-properties/Makefile.in.in/) Essentially, the problems with the license were that

Re: Status of CC by-SA v2.5

2015-01-30 Thread Riley Baird
Can I claim to be using it under v3.0 and include it in a Debian package without conflict? Yes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Makefile.in.in license

2015-01-30 Thread Riley Baird
Hi, I have no idea how to interpret the below license: This file file be copied and used freely without restrictions. It can be used in projects which are not available under the GNU Public License but which still want to provide support for the GNU gettext functionality. Please note that the

Re: Makefile.in.in license

2015-01-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 07:15:11AM +1100, Riley Baird a écrit : I have no idea how to interpret the below license: This file file be copied and used freely without restrictions. It can be used in projects which are not available under the GNU Public License but which still want to provide

Re: Makefile.in.in license

2015-01-30 Thread Riley Baird
a quick search trough the other source packages in Debian shows that this file is present in many of them. http://codesearch.debian.net/results/file%20file%20be%20copied/ Therefore, empirically it is DFSG-free. My impression about this license is that it might be intended as a joke.