Re: About Logo License

2007-12-12 Thread Frank Küster
Sam Hocevar sam at zoy.org writes: FWIW, there are no plans to change the official logo licensing as far as I know. Unless someone comes up with a suggestion that complies with trademark law, it will have to remain non-free if we want it to serve the purpose it was created for. Does it

Re: debian/copyright and actual copyrights

2007-11-19 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, Yaroslav Halchenko debian at onerussian.com writes: My questions to the list now: 1. Do we have to list all copyright holders + licenses per each piece of software distributed within a package? The opinion of the ftp-masters ist that we do have to:

Re: Policy on Binary Firmware Fetching in Main (e.g. foo2zjs)

2007-11-15 Thread Frank Küster
Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com writes: Stephen Gran wrote: That being said, packages that exist solely to download external non-free content have traditionally been considered contrib material. If this is just a helper script that nothing else in the package uses, it

Re: License discussions in Debian

2007-06-05 Thread Frank Küster
. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-04 Thread Frank Küster
german selling or service contracts, not only but in particular if you buy online. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-04 Thread Frank Küster
Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

License discussions in Debian (was: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta)

2007-06-04 Thread Frank Küster
. But it's a pity that there's no way to get the ftpmasters' opinion except by trying, and no regular way at all, it seems, to get the reasons for their decisions. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-05 Thread Frank Küster
?) statements by so many people, without trying to sum up on a web page or similar. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-04 Thread Frank Küster
that, whether in the particular cases there's in fact any doubt, etc. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: RE : Re: Linux Magazin Germany, affecting Debian's image?!

2006-07-17 Thread Frank Küster
conflictual feelings, but do you really feel this is *right*? Even if it is not, it's off-topic on -legal. Please continue this on -project; note that I'm not subscribed there. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian

Re: Rejected Package - Licence question

2006-07-13 Thread Frank Küster
. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Rejected Package - Licence question

2006-07-13 Thread Frank Küster
that installed the file, and finally to its copyright file. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: name changing clauses, again

2006-07-11 Thread Frank Küster
/convince upstream. Except dropping the file, of course, if the restriction is *not* ineffective. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

name changing clauses, again

2006-07-10 Thread Frank Küster
what's relevant depending on the individual case. Can you help me out? Is there any consensus in debian-legal? I'd rather get some general guidelines, otherwise I expect myself boring -legal with similar questions all the time... TIA, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein

Re: Rejected Package - Licence question

2006-07-10 Thread Frank Küster
to happen. Finally there's the GFDL, which is a *bad* license, but DFSG-free by GR if the document does not include any of the GFDL's invariant section options (for the details, read the GR). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ

Re: Rejected Package - Licence question

2006-07-10 Thread Frank Küster
Andrew Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/10/06, Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you fail, well, I fear there is currently no license for documentation that has been approved by -legal. Actually, the MIT license[1] covers documentation: --- Permission is hereby granted, free

Re: licenses with name changing clauses

2006-05-29 Thread Frank Küster
than a bug. Yes, it's as simple as mv ukhyphen.tex britpat.tex $EDITOR britpat.tex echo britpat.tex ukhypen.tex /usr/share/texmf-tetex/aliases Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

licenses with name changing clauses (was: license of cstex / cslatex)

2006-05-26 Thread Frank Küster
, and originally the data were in the public domain... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: license of cstex / cslatex

2006-05-26 Thread Frank Küster
, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: sharpmusique in Debian

2006-05-23 Thread Frank Küster
. The xml files in the glade subdirectory, as well as the images don't have a license statement (at least not in their svn repository). Shipping a copy of the GPL in the distribution does not mean that every file is licensed under it. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy

Re: [OT] Re: Sun responds to questions on the DLJ

2006-05-22 Thread Frank Küster
alone. And it would also be much less interesting to do the work in a company with traditional organization. Therefore, the fact that Debian is a social entity, too, with a particular culture, contributes to my motivation to work for it. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy

Re: PDF files and dh_compress

2006-05-10 Thread Frank Küster
statement for the Documentation is the problem. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Free Art License

2006-05-04 Thread Frank Küster
to dance or theatre works.) I've seen partition used in a cover text of a music CD, it seems to refer to the score of music for the orchestra. It might be a false-friend like translation, in german a music score for many instruments is called partitur. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule

Re: Question about translating and editing gpl document.

2006-04-28 Thread Frank Küster
. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Is distribution of the maxdb-doc package a GPL violation?

2006-04-27 Thread Frank Küster
Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To summarize, I think that, if those documents are actually modified in MS Word Doc format by their actual maintainers, then their source code is really in MS Word Doc format. I agree. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy

Re: Packages containing RFCs

2006-04-27 Thread Frank Küster
* material which is well-separated and not required for the operation of the package can go into main? That one is true, I'm sure, although I can't give you a reference, either. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian

Re: Is distribution of the maxdb-doc package a GPL violation?

2006-04-26 Thread Frank Küster
? Or are they newly exported every release? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Bug#363061: Implicit granting of rights?

2006-04-20 Thread Frank Küster
just remove it, it's obsolete cruft anyway, useful only for some hypothetical centuries-old documents. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Implicit granting of rights? (was: Bug#363061: tetex-extra: palatcm.sty is non-free)

2006-04-18 Thread Frank Küster
Hi debian-legal, Ralf Stubner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 15:14 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: , | %%% Copyright (C) 1994 Aloysius G. Helminck. All rights reserved. | %%% Permission is granted to to customize the declarations in this | %%% file to serve the needs

Re: MPL and Source Code

2006-04-05 Thread Frank Küster
expected anything else :) GPL-compatible as in openssh and openssl? The modified BSD license is GPL compatible, isn't it? (I know the original BSD license isn't) That doesn't matter. GPL-compatibility or copyleft ist *not* a requirement of the DFSG, not at all. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster

Re: MPL and Source Code

2006-04-03 Thread Frank Küster
don't *archive* the source code after there's been a new upload with new source code. That's no problem with the GPL, but it appears to be with the MPL. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Format of the copyright file

2006-04-01 Thread Frank Küster
- a table of contents at the start We already have some of this, the visual separators could be more visible... Incidentally, is the Artistic License the same as the one in /usr/share/common-licenses? No, it's a different version. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy

Format of the copyright file

2006-03-31 Thread Frank Küster
it is okay to violate the words of the Policy and go for a separate licenses.texts file? If you think that this is not acceptable, what else would you suggest to actually make the copyright file useful? TIA, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ

how to properly specify Public Domain?

2006-03-30 Thread Frank Küster
. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: how to properly specify Public Domain?

2006-03-30 Thread Frank Küster
things as they are? The fact is that there's at least one file like this in tetex-base. And I'm not sure whether the copyright holder can still be reached. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: how to properly specify Public Domain?

2006-03-30 Thread Frank Küster
to distribute it in main, or non-free, or not at all. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: how to properly specify Public Domain?

2006-03-30 Thread Frank Küster
for the real licensing problems first - there are plenty of them. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: License advice: LPPL with additional restrictions

2006-03-29 Thread Frank Küster
, it seems. If I had, I'd asked differently. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Debian packaging and (possible) Eterm license violations

2006-03-27 Thread Frank Küster
is nice, but not necessary at all. The other issue is a question of rpm/Fedora packaging policy which I can't comment on. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Is the GUST-FONT-NOSOURCE-LICENSE free?

2006-03-20 Thread Frank Küster
Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Frank Küster wrote: Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried contacting Janusz Nowacki on 28 Apr 2005 and 14 Sep 2005 but received no answer. He's obviously alive, so this could be caused either by his lack of time

Re: Interpreting the GFDL GR

2006-03-16 Thread Frank Küster
in the computer world, even on Windows systems, that stuff is not-world readable. Or in other words because this restriction would make the whole license void, and that can't be what the licensor intended. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie

Re: Is the GUST-FONT-NOSOURCE-LICENSE free?

2006-03-16 Thread Frank Küster
team). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Package copyright problems

2006-03-15 Thread Frank Küster
the first upload) about the license status of the individual files. There's nothing special about packages that contain differently licensed parts, as long as they are compatible -you just need to clearly indicate this in the copyright file. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy

Is the GUST-FONT-NOSOURCE-LICENSE free?

2006-03-14 Thread Frank Küster
of modification for the author, and I see no reason not to accept this as source in the sense of the DFSG, since there doesn't seem to be anything better. Consequently, the fonts would be free. What do you think? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f

How to free GFDL'ed documents with existing Front Cover texts

2006-03-14 Thread Frank Küster
the back cover text. be helpful? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?

2006-03-12 Thread Frank Küster
Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05 Mar 2006 12:03:00 +0100 Claus Färber wrote: Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb/wrote: The reason for this is that building (La)TeX documentation * depends on the right number and order of commands to be executed, which one

Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?

2006-03-12 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05 Mar 2006 12:03:00 +0100 Claus Färber wrote: Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb/wrote: The reason for this is that building (La)TeX documentation * depends on the right number and order

Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?

2006-03-06 Thread Frank Küster
you be in touch with the author (explaining the problem)? With some, yes. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?

2006-03-05 Thread Frank Küster
if the sources could go to contrib. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?

2006-03-05 Thread Frank Küster
if it is subsetted, you just have to collect enough documents to get all glyphs). So if it is technically possible to extract and reuse the font, but forbidden by the license, this is non-free. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ

Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?

2006-03-05 Thread Frank Küster
on the non-free fonts. Are you sure? Isn't it the same as a program that contains in its sources a binary blob that's copied as-is to the executable, and the binary blob is non-free? Just that here the binary blob, i.e. the embedded fonts, is not even in the sources? Regards, Frank -- Frank

Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?

2006-03-04 Thread Frank Küster
that are a PDF presentation. /mode Fixing source in order to make it actually rebuildable with the declared Build-Depends should not be left to the users... mode=repeat tetex-base does not rebuild documentation and does not Build-Depend on tetex-bin. /mode Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single

Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?

2006-03-03 Thread Frank Küster
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripsit Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] How do you fix errors in the document? By waiting for upstream to release a new version. Even though _you_ may not want to take the time to fix errors, it is essential for freedom that _the user_ has

Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?

2006-03-03 Thread Frank Küster
to the question I wanted answered, thank you for that. I didn't ask because I expected a is suitable for main, but just because I don't feel comfortable with legal stuff, and because I had a faint recollection that fonts are handled specially because of some special reason. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster

Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?

2006-03-03 Thread Frank Küster
Mark Rafn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, everything in orig.tar.gz must be DFSG free. On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Frank Küster wrote: Err, of course. That's why I ask. Does debian-legal think that a document with a DFSG-free license and with sources

Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?

2006-03-03 Thread Frank Küster
magically without having worrying about LaTeX rerun, makeindex, etc...) For a texinfo file, it's of course easy. For many LaTeX package documentation files, often created from dtx files, it is *that* difficult, as I already explained in this thread. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule

Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?

2006-03-02 Thread Frank Küster
) in the binary package, and the sources in the source package? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?

2006-03-02 Thread Frank Küster
care much. But the important question is whether we can distribute that *existing* document in main. Regards, Frank Footnotes: [1] Read: are about to ensure, see http://bugs.debian.org/345604 -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich

Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?

2006-03-02 Thread Frank Küster
. And it still doesn't answer my question whether we can distribute documents prepared with a non-free, distributable font. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?

2006-03-02 Thread Frank Küster
to rework all the spacing and page breaking, and probably rather put it into contrib (or non-free if that's the only example, since we already have a package with non-free stuff but none with contrib). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie

Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?

2006-03-02 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot to answer one question - please follow up to devel if you want to discuss this, since it isn't a legal issue. If the usual dtx mantra: pdflatex package.dtx makeindex -s gind.ist makeindex -s gglo.ist -o package.gls package.glo pdflatex

Re: Missing documentation for autoconf

2006-02-21 Thread Frank Küster
not intentional. I hope that, too. #353833. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Missing documentation for autoconf

2006-02-20 Thread Frank Küster
. Has nobody volunteered to package one of the three autotools doc packages in non-free? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Missing documentation for autoconf

2006-02-20 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Huerlimann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm bitten by the removal of the autoconf documentation. I wanted to do some bugfixing in a configure.in script. But as I'm currently offline, I don't have access to the needed documentation. Well

Re: Software license used for SHA-2 reference code

2006-02-17 Thread Frank Küster
. And when you violate the license by distributing modified versions with misleading information, you loose your right to copy and use the software. But that's not a freeness problem, I guess. I think this is clearly DFSG-compliant. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy

Re: EU antitrust is also cool

2006-02-15 Thread Frank Küster
? Germany (which part of the EU) has declared the GPL legal. See http://lwn.net/Articles/73848/ Germany hasn't done anything, at least nothing is described in this article. A particular german court has spoken. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-14 Thread Frank Küster
* if I am stuck with an ASCII-only medium. I guess you've never heard of UUENCODE. That won't help: If the device is not capable of uudecoding and displaying the resulting Japanese, the license requirement cannot be fulfilled. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-14 Thread Frank Küster
Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 09:44:33AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:07:21AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: By contrast, if there is an invariant section written in Japanese, I cannot

Re: OFL license analysis

2006-01-31 Thread Frank Küster
Mark Rafn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Rafn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This discussion seems to have gone into the weeds about WHY someone would want to make a change and whether Debian is able to make such changes reasonably. On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Frank Küster wrote: Well, only in part

Re: OFL license analysis

2006-01-31 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In practice, this means that the version string displayed in the file log of a LaTeX run will be different, and that the user, or a developer of a package that uses the work, has the possibility to check for the version and act accordingly; it does

Re: OFL license analysis

2006-01-30 Thread Frank Küster
not a question of freeness, it's a technical problem. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Please review: The OFL (Open Font License)

2006-01-30 Thread Frank Küster
of documents ;-) Yes. Well, let's say preserve rendering. A no-longer incorrect letter kerning might, via changes in line wrapping, lead to a completely incorrect page breaking, or figure placement, etc., and in consequence to a much less correct rendering. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single

Re: OFL license analysis

2006-01-30 Thread Frank Küster
be acceptable to change either the version or, as long as there's no technical solution yet that includes this version in the API, the font name? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Creative Commons negotiations

2006-01-24 Thread Frank Küster
Hi Evan, hi all, is there any public information about the progress in the talks with CC about clarification/amelioration/whatever of their licenses? TIA, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Creative Commons negotiations

2006-01-24 Thread Frank Küster
as for the program is not applicable -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Ironies abound

2006-01-19 Thread Frank Küster
additional restrictions. ... and for packages with non-free docs. Any help is appreciated. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

object code in the GPL and printed copies

2006-01-18 Thread Frank Küster
), but wants to restrict commercial trade of the printed version, and therefore assumes the second interpretation, would such a document qualify for Debian (main, of course)? TIA, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-18 Thread Frank Küster
are referred to it in an online-shop. The german original text is at http://www.jbb.de/urteil_lg_muenchen_gpl.pdf, an english translation at http://www.jbb.de/judgment_dc_munich_gpl.pdf Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian

Re: object code in the GPL and printed copies

2006-01-18 Thread Frank Küster
on the outcome of the discussion... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: object code in the GPL and printed copies

2006-01-18 Thread Frank Küster
. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: object code in the GPL and printed copies

2006-01-18 Thread Frank Küster
, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

License of fonts included in X.org sources (was: [tex-live] Re: Utopia fonts)

2005-10-18 Thread Frank Küster
in gsfonts-other-nonfree because of the license statement on CTAN, the origin of which is now unclear. -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: License of fonts included in X.org sources

2005-10-18 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, it just occurred to me that the X strike force might be a better place to ask this: Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear debian-legal people, Ralf Stubner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is quite odd that on the one hand Adobe says that all the rights are with the X consortion

Re: License of fonts included in X.org sources

2005-10-18 Thread Frank Küster
Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 02:50:32PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: Do you know which person we could contact among the X.org people? More context, please. Which fonts? In this special case, it's about the Utopia fonts gsfonts-other-6.0/putbi.pfa gsfonts

Re: [Fwd: Re: mplayer, the time has come]

2005-02-17 Thread Frank Küster
two. It seems they are not free enough (or rather, their copyright and license status is unclear). So you could just have answered: Yes, you're right. But they aren't free enough, and therefore I deleted them. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: GPL as a license for documentation: What about derived works?

2005-01-31 Thread Frank Küster
reserved usually. Thanks, that also made things clearer to me. It sounds so obvious once someone said it... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: GPL - specifying the preferred form for modification

2005-01-31 Thread Frank Küster
that it is a meaningful phrase. We do not want such statements to act as a restriction. Yes, it was in this sense that I suggested this addition. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: GPL as a license for documentation: What about derived works?

2005-01-31 Thread Frank Küster
the executable-specific cruft rippeed off (or replaced)? With such a license I would hope that we could convince individual authors to switch from GFDL to this GPL-doc (of course not the FSF...). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: GPL as a license for documentation: What about derived works?

2005-01-31 Thread Frank Küster
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:09:18PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Would it be possible to create something like a reduced form of the GPL, ... This isn't really the right forum for that. Well, hm, yes, no. Indeed the case that made me post this question

Re: GPL as a license for documentation: What about derived works?

2005-01-31 Thread Frank Küster
compatibility of GPL'ed code with BSD or artistic licensed code. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

GPL as a license for documentation: What about derived works?

2005-01-28 Thread Frank Küster
that would not hold for a text published without a license, simply in printed form? TIA, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: GPL and command-line libraries

2004-11-03 Thread Frank Küster
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:53:21PM +0100, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: 4. Writing to debian-legal and asking for advice. Now that's a good idea. Why did you do that on debian-devel instead? s/instead/, too/ Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f

Re: Blast from the Past: the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3

2004-07-12 Thread Frank Küster
have so productively worked with to make the LPPL better, and free. I would be willing to raise this issue on -release, but not without some further input from the -legal people. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie

Re: Blast from the Past: the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3

2004-07-09 Thread Frank Küster
a or later clause? I hope not - I have other things to do this summer, Debian related and mostly not. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie

License of Debian-specific parts in packages, generally and in particular

2004-07-08 Thread Frank Küster
old code with unknown or unreachable authors in the package if it is marked a such, but require a rewrite if substantial changes have to be made anyway. Regards, Frank [1] at least if the code is complex enough to warrant a copyright at all. -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt

Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?

2004-06-17 Thread Frank Küster
in the kernel before. Is this relevant? He contributed code to a GPL'ed project, assuming that all of the project meets the license requirements. Do you expect every contributor to check the copyright status of every file in the project? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt

Re: Another proposed renaming for Debian/NetBSD

2003-12-18 Thread Frank Küster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathanael Nerode) schrieb: Debian NotBSD ;-) Plus Debian FearBSD and Debian OvenBSD (or UponBSD?) Bye, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie

Re: Status of new LPPL version?

2003-12-14 Thread Frank Küster
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:09:37PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: does anybody know what is going to happen with regard to LPPL-1.3, and in which timeline? The latest mails I found were http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200306

Re: Bug#223819: RFA: murasaki -- another HotPlug Agent

2003-12-13 Thread Frank Küster
there is no need to list them manually in | package.conffiles. ` If there's no way to override this, one can instead copy them there in postinst. Bye, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie

Re: Plugins, libraries, licenses and Debian

2003-12-12 Thread Frank Küster
derivation. a) What is the simplification in the derivation on p. 66? b) How can it be formulated correctly? Bye, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie

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