Re: Re: opencascade license in squeeze

2010-03-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 10:53 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 08:09:45PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV a écrit : * The statement that the copyright license is not a trademark license is not in conflict with the GPL, and explicitly stated as an option

Re: Re: opencascade license in squeeze

2010-03-05 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hi Francesco, I contacted upstream a number of times a couple of years ago, and never got any reply. That said, a couple of people convinced me that OCTPL is (now) GPL-compatible, so FreeCAD is distributable, based on the following points: * The clause indicating You are also obliged to

Re: Debian package for Elmer - Re: ITP: Elmer -- Finite element software for multiphysics problems

2008-11-14 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hello Mikko, And let me thank you and CSC for being a model upstream partner in the effort to make a high-quality Debian package for such a wonderful piece of software. Your responsiveness, openness to patches, and willingness to discuss license issues have all been far above and beyond any

Re: Debian package for Elmer - Re: ITP: Elmer -- Finite element software for multiphysics problems

2008-11-14 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 21:50 +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:57:40 -0500 Adam C Powell IV wrote: [...] On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 23:49 +0200, Mikko Lyly wrote: [...] Indeed, you're fine as far as your distribution is concerned; as far as I can tell no GPL code in the fem

Re: OpenCascade license opinion

2008-01-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 02:45 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 02:20:24PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 21:32 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Adam C Powell IV a écrit : On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 02:25 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Adam C Powell IV

Re: OpenCascade license opinion

2007-12-31 Thread Adam C Powell IV
[Sorry to let the thread drop for so long] On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 21:32 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Adam C Powell IV a écrit : On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 02:25 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Adam C Powell IV a écrit : It depends on OpenCascade, which has a license which sounds DFSG-free

Re: OpenCascade license opinion

2007-12-31 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 23:20 +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:20:24 -0500 Adam C Powell IV wrote: [...] Francesco, I read the Linux Today story which you linked, and don't see how it's relevant. It's another case where a license is interpreted by upstream

Re: OpenCascade license opinion

2007-12-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 02:25 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Adam C Powell IV a écrit : Greetings, I just sent in an RFP for Salomé, a very nice and highly capable engineering tool under LGPL. That was my goal when I started to look at packaging OpenCascade. But there is a lot of work

OpenCascade license opinion

2007-12-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I just sent in an RFP for Salomé, a very nice and highly capable engineering tool under LGPL. It depends on OpenCascade, which has a license which sounds DFSG-free. The license is at: http://www.opencascade.org/occ/license/ There were two discussions on the OpenCascade license last

Re: Netscape on Alpha?

2002-01-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Walter Landry wrote: Andrea Mennucc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the problem: Debian Alpha is lacking a good browser the solution: there is a version of Netscape 4.7-4 that was compiled by Compaq for Tru64; this version is also distributed by RedHat for Alpha; some people have passed it thru