Re: why is graphviz package non-free?

2005-01-10 Thread Glenn Maynard
instead of going back to court.) I seem to recall this issue being raised with this or some similar license, but I can't find it. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mozilla thunderbird trademark restrictions / still dfsg free?

2005-01-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
allows us to do the same with Mozilla. ;) Damn. I want a Mozilla shake ... -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I'll let the Freemasons know Debian is distributing their trademark

2005-01-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
. Or as I'm sure someone will say there's nothing wrong here so naturally we can include say the NFL logo, right? You seem to be effectively diluting our list ... :) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Computer Associates Trusted Open Source License

2005-01-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
of venue because it's tucked away after the choice of law, and because Brett said there wasn't one. (This license seems to fail the not so long that you can hide an unabridged dictionary in a footnote and nobody will notice test; unfortunately, the GPL does, too ...) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: why is graphviz package non-free?

2005-01-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
to get changes into upstream are completely irrelevant to freeness. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GPL and Copyright Law (Was: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe)

2005-01-16 Thread Glenn Maynard
being weakened, so that's not much consolation. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GPL and Copyright Law (Was: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe)

2005-01-16 Thread Glenn Maynard
text and the relevant law that's important; if what he describes accurately follows from those, then it's very relevant. (I have no opinion of whether it actually does.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions about legal theory behind (L)GPL

2005-01-20 Thread Glenn Maynard
of the group). Sure. The tendency a few people have these days of trying to push Debian's standards and scope of freedom to as low and narrow a focus as possible makes me a little wary when people understate that scope (but I don't think you're among them). -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: RFP: gtybalt -- computer algebra system (CAS) based on GiNaC with optional TeXmacs GUI

2005-01-20 Thread Glenn Maynard
it is not. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFP: gtybalt -- computer algebra system (CAS) based on GiNaC with optional TeXmacs GUI

2005-01-20 Thread Glenn Maynard
that it's very clearly tied to the DFSG. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

GPL - specifying the preferred form for modification

2005-01-28 Thread Glenn Maynard
; I'm interested in the general problem of people specifying the preferred form for modification, which I believe is tantamount to placing an additional restriction beyond the GPL. Let me know if I'm way off base. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: GPL - specifying the preferred form for modification

2005-01-29 Thread Glenn Maynard
lets him choose a specific source format, or if he's confused in some other way. This work is under the GPL. An example of a form of modification I consider source is Pascal (or TeX or PNG) seems fine--it just gives an idea of the author's intent. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: The Nutch Software License

2005-01-31 Thread Glenn Maynard
was better without ... -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The Nutch Software License

2005-01-31 Thread Glenn Maynard
license, with the problems I and Matthew mentioned--but there's currently no requirement to do so to go in Debian. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Taking a position on anti-patent licenses

2005-01-31 Thread Glenn Maynard
the long debates on this topic, I still don't have a very strong opinion myself, and I don't think there are yet any consenses about patent defense clauses at all.) [1] https://helixcommunity.org/content/rpsl.txt -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: a right to privacy is not in the DFSG, therfore you don't have one

2005-01-31 Thread Glenn Maynard
, that this opinion puts me into an extremely small minority. I don't believe you're in the minority at all--if you are, it's probably time to scrap the DFSG entirely, since the Project must no longer care about Free Software principles at all. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: a right to privacy is not in the DFSG, therfore you don't have one

2005-02-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
don't need to be a DD to contribute. Please come back when you have some actual arguments. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GPL - specifying the preferred form for modification

2005-02-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 04:14:15PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: This has come up several times, so I'm CCing [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get their take on this. FSF folks: please ignore the documentation aspect above; I'm interested in the general problem of people specifying the preferred form

Re: handling Mozilla with kid gloves [was: GUADEC report]

2005-02-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
of any.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: handling Mozilla with kid gloves [was: GUADEC report]

2005-02-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
licenses in the context of a particular program or not. (Of course, if we do know that a licensor has a particular history--such as UW--it's something to keep in mind.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: a right to privacy is not in the DFSG, therfore you don't have one

2005-02-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
that's claiming that Debian needs to hold a vote to deem new restrictions non-free (a discussion which we've had: it would cripple Debian's ability to remain free), not me. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Making legal issues as short as possible

2005-02-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
something that has any real meaning. I usually recommend the MIT license (attached) as the simplest commonly- used license for people who want to allow people to do whatever they want. -- Glenn Maynard Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software

Re: Why is choice of venue non-free ?

2005-02-03 Thread Glenn Maynard
that grant permissions and make a work Free. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why is choice of venue non-free ?

2005-02-03 Thread Glenn Maynard
, and in the interests of Free Software; claiming that boil down to I don't care if it restricts freedom; the DFSG doesn't talk about it aren't.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Authority and procedures of debian-legal

2005-02-05 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 04:06:32AM +1100, Glenn L McGrath wrote: On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 13:40:10 -0500 Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I've already explained how this relates to the DFSG, despite the DFSG not attempting to exhaustively list non-free restrictions.) I understand

Re: Why is choice of venue non-free ?

2005-02-06 Thread Glenn Maynard
such packages. But still this does not make buggy packages not DFSG-free, nor totally unacceptable. But that's entirely irrelevant, of course, as I explained. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: handling Mozilla with kid gloves [was: GUADEC report]

2005-02-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
). -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why is choice of venue non-free ?

2005-02-08 Thread Glenn Maynard
the DFSG as a set of pesky rules to be weaseled around and dictionary-lawyered, instead of a set of guidelines to be followed. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Use of the Debian name for websites

2005-02-10 Thread Glenn Maynard
. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#294559: Public domain licensing

2005-02-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
heard of revoking a work from the public domain (if you could do that, it was never in the public domain to begin with). -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I-D ACTION:draft-bradner-rfc-extracts-00.txt]

2005-02-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
access-type anon-ftp is unsupported --] Err. Better to include the actual text, and not a link (especially not a link that not even Mutt can grok). -- Glenn Maynard Network Working GroupS. Bradner Internet-Draft Harvard

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I-D ACTION:draft-bradner-rfc-extracts-00.txt]

2005-02-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
technology. It seems to be The standards of other organizations are also non-free; this merely says they're non-free, so we should be, too. Sorry, Stephane, but all of this sounds more like a blunt refusal than progress. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Making legal issues as short as possible

2005-02-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
and analyze it, which is much more work (even if it's short). Nothing is gained by doing this; it's just license proliferation. Please see also the first section of http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2000/01/msg00088.html -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Maia Mailguard License

2005-02-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
that you advertise powered by Maia Mailguard, even if you've modified the software in incompetent ways. It's the opposite of a renaming clause--it essentially prohibits renaming. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: flowc license

2005-02-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
that, then it should be pretty easy to convince him to actually change the license, and not just clarify or interpret the license (which gets very hairy once you have more than one copyright holder). -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Maia Mailguard License

2005-02-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
software because they want to? Freedom of software begins with choosing if it is licensed with a GPL-compatible or not. I'm sorry, I have no idea what you just said. :) (I'm not able to come up with an interpretation of what you said that relates to my post ...) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: flowc license

2005-02-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: flowc license

2005-02-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
, but not believe a problem exists.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: flowc license

2005-02-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
might even cause problems. Probably the only reason it hasn't caused problems is that it's probably unenforcable, but that's a dangerous reason to call something free.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#296369: ITP: spin -- Powerfull model checking and software verification tool

2005-02-21 Thread Glenn Maynard
. Please see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/01/msg00267.html -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: PHP non-free or wrongly named?

2005-02-22 Thread Glenn Maynard
of reasoning that one can use and still take Freeness seriously. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Bug#296369: ITP: spin -- Powerfull model checking and softwareverification tool

2005-02-23 Thread Glenn Maynard
. Is it really a good idea to distribute such a time-bomb? -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#296369: ITP: spin -- Powerfull model checking and softwareverification tool

2005-02-23 Thread Glenn Maynard
don't get a license to redistribute--you never had one to begin with. I'm not sure; part of the license says I'm allowed to sublicense, after all, and I have no idea how that interacts with the LUCENT ... clause. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: mplayer, the time has come

2005-02-24 Thread Glenn Maynard
* to patents affecting the US, and never has been. AFAIK, non-us was an archive that was uploaded to from outside the US, but could be freely and legally used from inside the US--not an archive which was completely off- limits to the US. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Bug#296369: ITP: spin -- Powerfull model checking and softwareverification tool (OT)

2005-02-24 Thread Glenn Maynard
... I didn't find this rule in http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct A convention is not a rule. It's perfectly normal for conventions to form which don't have the weight of rules, and for people to gripe a bit when those conventions are broken. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: mplayer, the time has come

2005-02-25 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:10:47AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: We hate reading it, too. What cause, exactly, do you think random snideness and derisiveness serves? -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-02-25 Thread Glenn Maynard
is actually authored in an obfuscated form does; for example, a package containing submissions to obfuscated source contests. That's the actual, honest source form of that software. The GPL's definition, incidentally, handles this case elegantly as well.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: asterisk and mysql_cdr

2005-02-25 Thread Glenn Maynard
it wrong and cause further headaches down the line. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mplayer, the time has come

2005-02-26 Thread Glenn Maynard
. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-02-27 Thread Glenn Maynard
of source has no obvious relation to throwing hardware support out the window. What are you talking about? -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GPL'ed programs and libraries

2005-03-09 Thread Glenn Maynard
, and intuitively, at least, it seems best to point to the canonical URLs for things like licensing FAQs (but as long as it's identical, of course, it doesn't really matter.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Documenting License Interpretations (was: Re: GPL for documentation ?)

2005-03-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
upstream authors to talk to if the license seems ambiguous, and so on. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux and GPLv2

2005-03-13 Thread Glenn Maynard
(Apologies if I was just rehashing old stuff--a long work week made me not notice that this thread is already a couple dozen posts old ...) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux and GPLv2

2005-03-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux and GPLv2

2005-03-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dssi license issues

2005-03-17 Thread Glenn Maynard
/MIT license instead. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Binaries and MIT/expat license interpretative tradition

2005-03-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
notices in --show-legalese, that seems to qualify as supporting documentation.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Linux and GPLv2

2005-03-23 Thread Glenn Maynard
at all. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux and GPLv2

2005-03-23 Thread Glenn Maynard
, that's *your* problem. I don't even know what you're trying to say here--you put your copyrighted code in a header and I copied it into my object file--that's your problem, not mine! doesn't make any sense at all. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Combining GPL and BSD/CeCILL/whatever

2005-03-23 Thread Glenn Maynard
which bits have whose copyright? Yow! That's not particularly hard or unusual; just merge two people's code together and let it go through a year or two of refactoring. You can't just leave it in the sun and let one person's code evaporate so you can get the rest. :) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Linux and GPLv2

2005-03-24 Thread Glenn Maynard
enough and all that, but that's the licensor's fault, not the law's.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux and GPLv2

2005-03-24 Thread Glenn Maynard
the header file, the object file is undistributable as a direct result of containing bits from my header files. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Linux and GPLv2

2005-03-24 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 03:38:19PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 03:10:41AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 07:45:24AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: Fair use is an American perversion. It does not exist in most of the rest of the world

Re: Linux and GPLv2#

2005-03-25 Thread Glenn Maynard
you think it's worse. I asked why you think it's a perversion. (In other words, what is your perspective that makes you consider is worse?) You won't answer. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux and GPLv2#

2005-03-26 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 11:16:29AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 09:55:40AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: 'Worse' is purely a matter of perspective. There's irony here... On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 05:31:27AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: No, there isn't. It's very simple

Re: Linux and GPLv2#

2005-03-28 Thread Glenn Maynard
just attacks things--people and laws alike--out of sheer habit, not for any particular reason.) It's fairly disappointing that a simple request for rationale--an honest attempt to understand someone's opinion--results in such a waste of time as this thread, and no rationale. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Linux and GPLv2#

2005-03-29 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 09:34:42PM +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 01:30:16PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: Andrew seems to avoid Red Herring arguments more than I. I asked for the rationale behind

Re: Linux and GPLv2

2005-03-29 Thread Glenn Maynard
.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Draft summary of Creative Commons 2.0 licenses (version 3)

2005-04-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
of freedom in Debian, being among that group of people who apparently despise the fact that the Social Contract applies to everything, even *his* pet non-free software. Don't be too surprised if few people waste time arguing with him anymore. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Draft summary of Creative Commons 2.0 licenses (version 3)

2005-04-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
. :) You can't draw a strict boundary between overlapping sets. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Draft summary of Creative Commons 2.0 licenses (version 3)

2005-04-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
non-free, it doesn't mean the licenses need to be changed (it won't help), and it doesn't necessarily mean that obviously bogus interpretations would stand in court-- that's one of the big reasons we strongly recommend using well-established licenses (such as the above three). -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Draft summary of Creative Commons 2.0 licenses (version 3)

2005-04-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
complete (and obviously entirely deliberate) inability to discuss anything at all civilly. Even the subject of a certain Drinking Game a while back has a much better track record than you lately. *plonk* -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: sql-ledger may belong in non-free

2005-04-04 Thread Glenn Maynard
their licensing, but I'd have no idea where to start. :) Somebody else on this list might have some ideas; alternatively, you could ask the FSF for help--I'd expect that reducing incorrect, confusing claims about what the GPL means is something they'd be very interested in. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-08 Thread Glenn Maynard
this, it's ours! (I'm bordering on being happy to see this level of lunacy--the further patents are pushed, the more likely it is we'll see some patent reform in our lifetimes ...) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-09 Thread Glenn Maynard
that the work they are distributing is a derivative work--but you wouldn't necessarily further argue that they had no right to make it in the first place.) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-10 Thread Glenn Maynard
I'm not qualified to debate, but would be interested in hearing the FSF's response. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fwd: Re: Bug#304316: section non-free/doc]

2005-04-13 Thread Glenn Maynard
. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (DRAFT) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
as they are (what about my helicopter sim, Apache Combat, and my military combat game, Apache Warriors?), are a big step up from complete invariance, though. (At least the new Apache license dropped that dumb clause--but not until after damage was done; eg. Subversion.) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
(and the tags might be wrong). -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
and have it be so. And regardless of whether they can be changed or not, that doesn't mean they have any binding significance, as I mentioned in my previous reply. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (DRAFT 2) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
of people actually use it (google for it to see just how many). -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (DRAFT 2) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
. It's an example of how no consistent distinction between documentation and programs can be drawn: the source *is* the documentation. I think it's a clear demonstration of how it's impossible to meaningfully hold programs and documentation to different standards of freedom. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 10:56:02PM -0700, Michael K. Edwards wrote: On 4/14/05, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] The FSF FAQ says that *all* software linking against GPL libraries must GPL-compatible[1]. [2] contradicts the above even more directly. Now, it's possible

Re: (DRAFT 2) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
political spiels inside source code. Oops. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (DRAFT 3) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
/A. [1] I don't use Java; I'm assuming Javadoc works like Doxygen, but I'm not sure. [2] I'm not sure if slander or libel are the relevant laws, here. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I begin undestand debian community (comments to FAQ)

2005-04-20 Thread Glenn Maynard
(and fonts, and graphics, and sounds). Permission to modify is critical for free documentation. Nothing that can't be modified, adapted, and reused is free. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fwd: Re: Bug#304316: section non-free/doc]

2005-04-22 Thread Glenn Maynard
consistently. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More about GFDL

2005-04-23 Thread Glenn Maynard
://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml I have the same question around for some months. I have read the link above but I didn't find any reply. Any extra clue? Those of us on d-legal have no idea what your question is; please restate it. :) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: [Fwd: Re: Bug#304316: section non-free/doc]

2005-04-24 Thread Glenn Maynard
) which are usually one-way gates. I just point this out to be fair to the GFDL: GPL-incompatibility is fairly inherent. I think the right fix would have been for GPLv3 to be more clearly worded for documentation, rather than creating a whole new license. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Seeking advice for #305732

2005-04-25 Thread Glenn Maynard
, a boilerplate part of declaring copyright.) If there's a license granting permissions elsewhere, it's probably harmless. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Draft summary of Creative Commons 2.0 licenses (version 3)

2005-04-25 Thread Glenn Maynard
appear to have said that it's not part of the license, and: This one falls, for me, under the since it's so easy to fix, why exactly aren't they fixing it? category. ... and the fact that they refuse to fix such a simple thing bodes very ill for getting more serious problems fixed ... -- Glenn

Re: public domain

2005-04-25 Thread Glenn Maynard
only heard of problems with the public domain in other jurisdictions (Germany?), not in the US. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: modification of zlib/libpng license, is this legally usable?

2005-04-27 Thread Glenn Maynard
(No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor). You might find it moderately difficult to get people to help you write a proprietary license here. :) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Illegal code distribution from http://people.debian.org/~cowboy/debian/x3270/

2005-05-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
, but the derisive, knee-jerk dismissal of legal issues at its start--a year ago, to be fair--puts me in little mood to read the thread much further. :) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: For thoughts: fair license

2005-05-04 Thread Glenn Maynard
or altered from any source or altered source distribution, not requiring it for binaries. (I havn't considered this to be enough of a problem to consider making a new license for it, though. License proliferation, and worse, people writing licenses without counsel, is worse.) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Is public domain software DFSG-compliant?

2005-05-05 Thread Glenn Maynard
as permissive, non-copyleft licenses, are certainly truly- and DFSG-free. Please CC me on any responses; I'm not subscribed to this list. Please set your Mail-Followup-To header accordingly. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: GPL and linking

2005-05-09 Thread Glenn Maynard
distribute under these conditions; in addition, John may offer you a new license in the future, terms which you may accept or ignore? -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GPL, license upgrades, and the obligation to offer source code

2005-05-10 Thread Glenn Maynard
clause is clearly non-free and probably unenforcable, eg. ... and I can change these terms at will at any time, period, but that's not the case here. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pine license

2005-05-10 Thread Glenn Maynard
. -- Glenn Maynard Pine License and Legal Notices Pine and Pico are registered trademarks of the University of Washington. No commercial use of these trademarks may be made without prior written permission of the University of Washington. Pine, Pico, and Pilot software and its included text are Copyright

Re: pine license

2005-05-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:28:29AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: On 5/10/05, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the past, UW has (in my opinion) played deliberate word games to retroactively revoke the Freeness of a prior Pine license, and this license is clearly non-free *without* any

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