Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-02 Thread Clint Adams
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 03:36:57PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: apt-get is licensed GPLv2 and thus incompatible with AGPLv3. No, apt is GPL-2+. cyrus-{imapd,sasl} has BSD-style license and thus incompatible with AGPLv3. OpenLDAP has BSD-style (OpenLDAP) license and thus incompatible with AGPLv3.

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-02 Thread Clint Adams
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 05:22:03PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: Also it would cultivate the debate here if you have presented your arguments (e.g. explain why I might be mistaken) instead of presenting just the ad hominem arguments. Thanks. I am not a lawyer, though I work for lawyers. It

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

2012-09-20 Thread Clint Adams
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:31:55PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: For reasons I won't elaborate on here (they would drive us far away from the topic under discussion), I consider the GNU GPL v3 as a license with a broken copyleft mechanism (at least for some aspects). Hence, whenever I want to

Re: Request for GR: clarifying the license text licensing / freeness issue

2007-04-23 Thread Clint Adams
Egad, it sounds like you actually live in an evil parallel universe where idealism is inherently dishonest and false. That universe must really suck. :) There's a difference between idealism and lying about adhering to one's ideals. Please, try to remember the spirit of those promises, rather

Re: New MP3 License Terms Demand $0.75 Per Decoder

2002-08-27 Thread Clint Adams
3. http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html I wonder whether it's time to cease all mp3 players from Debian as well. FWIW, this licensing change occurred in mid-2001.

Re: How to get rid of non-free packers?

2002-08-23 Thread Clint Adams
So, where is that public-domain software for extracting ZOO-files? Somebody must find it and then create Debian-package of it. IMHO creating new ZOO-archives is not very important for us. IIRC, the ZOO extracters were Ooz and Looz.

documentation licenses

2001-10-16 Thread Clint Adams
Since it seems rather unclear whether or not the GFDL and OPL are DFSG-free with all permutations of their optional clauses, is anyone suggesting that documentation in Debian be held to a different standard than the DFSG? On the other hand, if the various restrictions on modification and printed