What does disclaiming a copyright mean?

2006-04-18 Thread Charles Plessy
program, which you can read here: http://charles-miroir.plessy.org/debian/dialign-2.1.1/license/LICENSE.TXT Does in mean that B. Morgenstern abandons his rights to S. Abdeddaim ? Thank you a lot for your help, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

non-free application linked to Qt.

2008-01-30 Thread Charles Plessy
to academic users, and require a commercial licence from industrial users. [Please CC me, I am not subscribed] Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Help needed for bug 507579 (AGPL issue).

2008-12-04 Thread Charles Plessy
that include a link to a remote non-free Google javascript. Thanks a lot for your help ! (and please CC me) Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Suggested removal: yocto-reader (RC bug, depends on remote scripts).

2008-12-06 Thread Charles Plessy
in this email, you can read http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507579 for more details). Le Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 10:12:30PM -0800, Walter Landry a écrit : Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you have a look to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507579

Re: BTS usertag with an userid that is not an email address.

2008-12-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:33:12AM +0900, Paul Wise a écrit : On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am doing some pilot tagging to implement my idea of peer review for the `debian/copyright' file. How about using user debian-legal@lists.debian.org

License requiring to reproduce copyrights in binary distributions.

2009-07-01 Thread Charles Plessy
for copyright documentation. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: License requiring to reproduce copyrights in binary distributions.

2009-07-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 07:03:03PM +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 23:57:28 +0900 Charles Plessy wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightNotices Could you please explicitly state (in the wiki page itself) the license under which the wiki page is released? All my

Does the ISC license require to reproduce copyrights in debian/copyright ?

2009-07-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:57:28PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : It appeared in various discussions about either DEP5 or the NEW queue that licenses vary in their requirement for reproducing the authors copyrights in binary distributions. In order to start clarifying the situation, I

Re: License requiring to reproduce copyrights in binary distributions.

2009-07-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 03:52:40PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : | | There is no such thing as “putting a work in the public domain”, you | America-centered, Commonwealth-biased individual. Public domain varies | with the jurisdictions, and it is in some places debatable whether | someone

Re: License requiring to reproduce copyrights in binary distributions.

2009-07-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 09:10:10AM +0100, MJ Ray a écrit : Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote: It appeared in various discussions about either DEP5 or the NEW queue that licenses vary in their requirement for reproducing the authors copyrights in binary distributions. [...] I wonder

Re: License requiring to reproduce copyrights in binary distributions.

2009-07-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 10:02:42PM +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : If you are convinced that a public-domain-like situation is actually desirable, then, AFAIK, the best way to achieve it is the Creative Commons public domain dedication [1], or possibly CC0 [2]. [1]

Re: Does the ISC license require to reproduce copyrights in debian/copyright ?

2009-07-04 Thread Charles Plessy
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 09:19:29 +0900 Charles Plessy wrote: Does this concern binary distribution: is a compiled version a “copy”? Le Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 10:10:29PM +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : Why not? I personally think that a compiled copy of the software is indeed a copy. What other

Re: License requiring to reproduce copyrights in binary distributions.

2009-07-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 07:00:23AM +0200, Florian Weimer a écrit : * Charles Plessy: - The GPL, that assumes that the source is always available, and therefore does not have special requirements for binary distributions. This is incorrect. If the binary includes copyright statements

Re: Verifying licence for packaging

2009-07-19 Thread Charles Plessy
repository that your users can add in their source list. http://wiki.debian.org/HowToSetupADebianRepository Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: License question for new package

2009-10-17 Thread Charles Plessy
clauses are accepted in Debian by our archive administrators. See for instance http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/j/jhdf/jhdf_2.5-3/libjhdf5-jni.copyright Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ

Re: RFS: spim

2009-10-19 Thread Charles Plessy
day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: bsd modified bsd clarification

2009-11-05 Thread Charles Plessy
distribution and is copyright by the regents of the university of California, you can not use the copy in /usr/share/common-license and have to include it verbatim. Luckily, it is short :) Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ

Re: POV-Ray 3.7 beta in experimental, but non-redistributable

2010-01-01 Thread Charles Plessy
that they already got it, they can close the bug with an upload that corrects the Debian copyright file, and otherwise the bug can be reassigned to ftp.debian.org as a request for removal. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ

Re: Difference between license in files and in COPYING file

2010-02-14 Thread Charles Plessy
another good reason to remove the package. Does it provide functionalities that are not found in other packages? (the answer to this question is off-topic on debian-legal, so if necessary continuing that part of the discussion in the bug report would be preferable). Have a nice day, -- Charles

Re: Re: opencascade license in squeeze

2010-03-05 Thread Charles Plessy
/gpl-faq.html#v2v3Compatibility Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100306015340.gc12

Re: EPL + LGPL compatiblity?

2010-03-09 Thread Charles Plessy
/azureus2/core3/util/BrokenMd5Hasher.java Copyright: 2005, jMuleGroup License: GPL-2 Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: msntp license

2010-03-15 Thread Charles Plessy
[CC Jakub Drnec because I correct one statement I made earlier this year about the MSNTP license] Le Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 07:44:11PM +0100, Florian Weimer a écrit : * Charles Plessy: I think that Clause 1 disallows for-profit distribution. Can a redistributor burn a CD and sell

Re: GPL3 compatible?

2010-03-20 Thread Charles Plessy
sunday, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100321014305.ga31...@kunpuu.plessy.org

Vagueness of what is ‘sub stantial’ in the Expat license.

2010-03-20 Thread Charles Plessy
works are solely in the form of machine-executable object code generated by a source language processor. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.

2010-03-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:56:44PM -0500, Joe Neal a écrit : http://wonko.com/post/jsmin-isnt-welcome-on-google-code Hi Joe, have you seen the comment of Joey Hess, that it ‘Looks like the jsmin.py in libv8 is now a reimplementation with a standard license.’ Have a nice week-end, --

Re: Does this license meet DSFG?

2010-04-08 Thread Charles Plessy
, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100409003426.ga28...@kunpuu.plessy.org

Re: logo license with debian - no warranty missing?

2010-06-29 Thread Charles Plessy
. 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 statements longer than what is necessary. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: SWIG license change to GPLv3, wording of debian/copyright?

2010-08-11 Thread Charles Plessy
of the MIT and BSD licenses, so their requrirement that ‘Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice…’ still fully applies: you have to quote them entirely. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ

Re: fmodapi license and non-free

2011-01-12 Thread Charles Plessy
difficult to maintain. So it looks like a bad start… Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110112232147.ga20

Re: data copyright or not -- what is Debian's take?

2011-01-24 Thread Charles Plessy
reproduction, unless it is the will of the copyright holders to have their names accompanying each and every derivative. But can you imagine the mess if one had to track which contributor to acknowledge when reproducing an extract of the human genome ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med

Re: copyright on upstream patches

2011-02-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:16:26AM +0100, Harald Jenny a écrit : I also thought about this but as the license text for the University of California differes slightly from the one of Petr Rehor I wasn't sure this is the correct way to do it - I also thought about: Oops, I missed this as the

Re: The Evil Cookie Producer case

2011-03-07 Thread Charles Plessy
. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110307100240.gc22...@merveille.plessy.net

Re: The Evil Cookie Producer case

2011-03-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 11:06:22AM +0100, Bruno Lowagie a écrit : Op 7/03/2011 11:02, Charles Plessy schreef: Regardless of the purpose and the intentions behind requiring to ‘retain the producer line in every PDF that is created or manipulated using iText’, if this addition to the AGPL

Re: Font license

2011-05-09 Thread Charles Plessy
, after undelining the potential problems. This may be a good opportunity to ask them if they would kindly consider a free license, or at least a non-free license that is already in Debian. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal

Re: Are ‘UniProt’ records complying with the DFSG ?

2011-07-24 Thread Charles Plessy
a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: License check for a new(ly modified) license..

2011-09-27 Thread Charles Plessy
minimalistic license that have a very short disclaimer, like the GNU All-Permissive license: http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices-for-Other-Files Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ

Re: Fwd: Re: RFS: wmaker

2011-11-15 Thread Charles Plessy
. government employees). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2015082442.ga27

Re: Fwd: Re: RFS: wmaker

2011-11-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 09:49:47AM -0500, Hendrik Weimer a écrit : Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: The public-domain short name is reserved for cases where the work is really in the public domain in the strict legal sense of it; this is a rare case (for instance, some works of U

Re: conflict between name and text of a license

2011-12-13 Thread Charles Plessy
advertisemnt clause… Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111213231832.gc19

Re: Local community license issue

2012-01-08 Thread Charles Plessy
/html/whydisclaim.html Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120108091050.gd1

Re: Debian official web site is still non-free

2012-01-08 Thread Charles Plessy
reason to go for relicensing or copyright disclaiming instead. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Bug#388141: Ask contributors a permission to relicense

2012-01-15 Thread Charles Plessy
repository. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Fwd: Re: Copyright and License status of transtab

2012-01-31 Thread Charles Plessy
, unfinished project) Regardless of the license, this calls in question whether this piece of code is fit for the level of support expected for a Debian package. If there are possible replacements that are actively maintaine, it may pay off to switch to them. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy

Re: custom license (package: bwctl)

2012-02-03 Thread Charles Plessy
. Thefore, while the validity of this concept of default license may be questionable, I do not think that it is non-free. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: custom license (package: bwctl)

2012-02-07 Thread Charles Plessy
. But I am not a native speaker. If it is the meaning of the Internet2 license that both parties must sign a document in order to “enter into a written license agreement”, then it is not a free license. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: DEP-5 best practice

2012-02-11 Thread Charles Plessy
stated by that paragraph. For the copyright statements, the current practice is to reproduce them and optionally combine them. If they are missing, then there is nothing to reproduce. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ

Re: XUL template - proper license

2012-02-12 Thread Charles Plessy
the Debian copryight files. Have a nice day, and thank you very much for maintaining xul-ext-zotero ! -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: picviz license (generated images as derivative work ?)

2012-02-26 Thread Charles Plessy
a proprietary web service encapsulating Picviz. Similarly, it looks like the GPL considers the the build and install system as part of the source code, and the clarification that Picviz should not be installed via InstallShield looks therefore unnecessary. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi

Re: MIT +no-false-attribs

2012-03-10 Thread Charles Plessy
, it looks that the npm license is free. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120311015132

Re: Using freetranslation.mobi to translate .po files (Was: google translating gpl2+ licenced documentation...)

2012-03-12 Thread Charles Plessy
the behaviour of virtaal, which will propose to pre-fill tranlsations with the output of Microsoft Translator. If it is not possible to translate copylefted text with such services, maybe the functionality should be disabled by default ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa

Re: Using freetranslation.mobi to translate

2012-03-23 Thread Charles Plessy
. For the resulting translations, however, I think that I agree that there is no copyright claimed on them, and that they can be freely added to the original project. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Using freetranslation.mobi to translate .po files

2012-03-24 Thread Charles Plessy
://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2012/03/msg00031.html . By the way, can you confirm if the following terms of service are relevant to Google Translate ? . http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/#toc-content . Have a nice week-end, . -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: foremost package - Licence of debian/* files

2012-04-13 Thread Charles Plessy
, the SQLite public domain dedication, or the GNU all-permissive license. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ http://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices-for-Other-Files.html Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa

Re: CC-BY-SA 2.5 can be re-released under 3.0?

2012-08-18 Thread Charles Plessy
of this License » only applies to derivatives (called adatpations in version 3.0). Section 4.a, which applies to the original work, does not give this permission. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: About kstars-data-extra-tycho2 distributability

2012-08-20 Thread Charles Plessy
for a clarification to one of the current mainstream distributors ? http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/Cat?target=httpcat=I/259 Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Freeness of this license

2012-08-29 Thread Charles Plessy
harmless Adobe against any losses, damages and costs arising from the claims, lawsuits or other legal actions arising out of such distribution. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: About packages-metadata [was: Re: Freeness of this license]

2012-08-30 Thread Charles Plessy
are in a subdirectory, the grep command can also be run on '*/*.copyright' instead of recursively; this will remove some noise as Subversion keeps copies in subdirectories. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: About kstars-data-extra-tycho2 distributability

2012-08-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 07:54:05PM +0100, Noel David Torres Taño a écrit : On the package kstars-data-extra-tycho2 it has arisen a doubt about its distributability: See bug #681654 On Martes, 21 de agosto de 2012 02:55:43 Charles Plessy wrote: sorry to discard the arguments you

Re: New package algol68toc: terms of the copyright.

2012-09-16 Thread Charles Plessy
, perhaps you or others can consider asking for a change to the NM templates via a bug reported to nm.debian.org. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

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

2012-09-16 Thread Charles Plessy
to be a (re-)distribution issue. Rather, the need for an additional agreement with CAcert. Hello Raphael, could it be a very strangely phrased disclaimer of warranty ? That A lets B rely on A, is similar to A warrants to B. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Why LGPLv3/CC-by-sa-v3.0 for the logo?

2012-09-22 Thread Charles Plessy
« Debian » is still distributed under a persmissive license on www.debian.org/logos, so anybody who worries about license incompatibilities can make a backup now, and redistribute it under its permissive license later if it looks useful. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Bug#681654: #681654 kstars-data-extra-tycho2: undistributable

2012-11-17 Thread Charles Plessy
considers that in the statement in 681654#52, cannot charge for the data means the same as not sold by themselves in the OFL, then it would be consistent to keep kstars-data-extra-tycho2 in Debian, as SIL-OFL-licensed works are allowed. Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Bug#681654: #681654 kstars-data-extra-tycho2: undistributable

2012-11-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:15:01AM +0100, Francesco Poli a écrit : On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 09:02:13 +0900 Charles Plessy wrote: [...] Catalogues available at CDS contain scientific data distributed for free, for a scientific usage. [...] Doesn't this fail DFSG#6 ? Hi, given

Re: licensing question for nom.tam.fits

2012-11-30 Thread Charles Plessy
copyright files from svn://anonscm.debian.org/collab-qa/packages-metadata/ I see that many chose contents such as none, nobody, public-domain, not relevant, etc, which I think are good enough, given that the content of the Copyright field is free-form. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi

Re: licensing question for nom.tam.fits

2012-12-01 Thread Charles Plessy
(and asking you at that time if you would like to summarise the contents of the Copyright field in files where License indicates public-domain). Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Open data french license

2012-12-21 Thread Charles Plessy
On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:41:46 +0100 (CET) x.guim...@free.fr wrote: The complete text can be found here : * Original text : http://www.data.gouv.fr/Licence-Ouverte-Open-Licence * English translation :

FWD: on the variability of BSD and MIT licenses

2012-12-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, there is an interesting email on the SPDX mailing list, distributing an article about the BSD and MIT license families. Here is a link to the page with the attached file. http://lists.spdx.org/pipermail/spdx/2012-December/000785.html Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Illkirch

Re: Bug#698019: libav: the effective GPL-licensed status of the binary packages should be clearly documented

2013-01-13 Thread Charles Plessy
for the package as a whole. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130114015538.gc5...@falafel.plessy.net

FWD: SPDX Technical team invites your participation!

2013-03-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello everybody, for those interested in the subject: SPDX (Software Package Data Exchange, http://spdx.org) is calling for contributions for their 2.0 version. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan - Forwarded message - Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:57:39 + Subject

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-08-31 Thread Charles Plessy
unsatisfied in one direction or the other and telling it repeatedly their opinion on that matter. If you do not like this, please write a convincing and authoritative explanation of Debian's opinion, that will close the debate. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Ceterum censeo Carthaginem delendam esse

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-09-01 Thread Charles Plessy
really feel like an idiot when I contact upstream to ask them to relicense works, and I am not able to explain why it matters. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-09-03 Thread Charles Plessy
. Also, with such a low threshold for banning people who are polite, precise, who do not engage into flamewars, and never show aggressivity, we will set the stage for massive purge and witch-hunting, because of many people are within the treshold. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi

Re: redistributability of two software pieces in non-free

2013-09-14 Thread Charles Plessy
) Other interested research groups will be redirected * to the author. The user will not redistribute the code outside * his immediate research group. Dear Johannes, I think that this clause forbids the redistribution by Debian. Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa

Re: ODbL / DbCL licenses: not DFSG compliant?

2013-09-22 Thread Charles Plessy
have not studied the other clauses of the ODbL, but section 4.6 therefore does not seem to make it non-free. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: incompatible licenses in the debian directory

2013-09-25 Thread Charles Plessy
to be licensed under terms that may be not welcome Upstream ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: CC0 and authors' names in Copyright field

2013-10-01 Thread Charles Plessy
-readability. Currently, the canonical URL for the standard is http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/. As for CC0, as Ben explained, it is a license, and the simplest is to list the copyright holders as for other licenses. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi

Re: CC0 and authors' names in Copyright field

2013-10-02 Thread Charles Plessy
...] Or is there an even better third solution? Solution 2 is fine; Copyright: [year] John Doe would be enough as well. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Creative Commons 4.0 licenses published

2013-11-28 Thread Charles Plessy
version is *explicitly* discouraged for use with software. Hi Thorsten, Can you share a link to such a recommendation with a reasonable explanation ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Need more (legal) information

2014-03-25 Thread Charles Plessy
, which is included at Appendix F.” To me, it appears that Appendix F, which has non-Free clauses, applies. Have you tried to contact the authors of KANJIDIC ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: DEP-5 copyright names on a single line

2014-06-04 Thread Charles Plessy
, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140604121619.ga21...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: [PHP-QA] Debian and the PHP license

2014-07-29 Thread Charles Plessy
(modulo a small delay) become part of Testing again. This already has been done for packages such as php-memcached, and could be done for others. Thank you for your patience ! -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: [PHP-QA] Debian and the PHP license

2014-07-30 Thread Charles Plessy
software, and sell it as “Debian Enhanced”. We and other protect our names, and PHP does it too. I do not see a problem. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: [PHP-QA] Debian and the PHP license

2014-08-01 Thread Charles Plessy
a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140801231037.ga8...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: [PHP-QA] Debian and the PHP license

2014-08-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 08:10:49AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : I think that it is important that a few of the ‘some members’ would identify themselves in support for that request, and explain what they would do if the worries expressed below turned out to be true. Sorry for the extra

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

2014-08-19 Thread Charles Plessy
modification. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140819214405.gb13...@falafel.plessy.net

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

2014-08-21 Thread Charles Plessy
be better to use the same license as upstream, to simplify their work. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Question about a custom license from dictconfig

2014-08-26 Thread Charles Plessy
://codesearch.debian.net/search?prev=q=the+name+of+Vinay+Sajip Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140826211059

Re: Public domain and DEP-5-compliant debian/copyright

2014-09-16 Thread Charles Plessy
. Not elegant, but accurate. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Public domain and DEP-5-compliant debian/copyright

2014-10-10 Thread Charles Plessy
the apparent contradiction at the pace you want, you can even consider it a wishlist, “patch welcome” issue only. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal

Re: License of binary packages

2014-11-13 Thread Charles Plessy
the machine-readable format). However, it is not canonical, nor automated. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Python library under permissive GPL-compatible license optionally using GPL library

2014-12-12 Thread Charles Plessy
be kind to write somewhere in the documentation that Y is GPL-licensed. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Makefile.in.in license

2015-01-30 Thread Charles Plessy
probably ignore the problem. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150130232546.gc14

Re: Consensus about the Academic Free License (AFL) v3.0

2015-06-10 Thread Charles Plessy
, although it would be great of course if the Subversion authors would manage to elimiate this license from their sources, because this license is not a good example to follow. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ

Re: GPL + question

2015-05-29 Thread Charles Plessy
to be indicated in debian/copyright should be GPLv3+. Have a nice week-end, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Re: DFSG-ness of two

2015-05-29 Thread Charles Plessy
in the original question, this clause is similar to clause 1 of the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which is DFSG-Free. Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components, in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: DFSG-ness of two

2015-05-30 Thread Charles Plessy
seperatly. But a developer doesn't have the freedom to sell the software for profit to other developers. On Sat, 30 May 2015 10:46:04 +0900 Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote: as suggested in the original question, this clause is similar to clause 1 of the SIL Open Font

Re: DFSG-ness of two

2015-05-30 Thread Charles Plessy
team is that the second sentence solves the problem introduced by the first. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Is mpage DFSG compatible?

2015-10-18 Thread Charles Plessy
as the PostScript code" are not found in any other package; good ! Cheers, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Source files

2015-10-14 Thread Charles Plessy
that the commit messages and the revisions of a file are part the source, since inspecting them is part of the "preferred" way to modify the file. But we are not there yet... Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Source files

2015-10-12 Thread Charles Plessy
assed the screening of the FTP team when it entered our archive. You can also add Lintian overrides if the Lintian maintainers are uncooperative. Thanks for your hard work, and have a nice day, Charles Plessy -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

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