Re: no need to keep non-copylefted files that way in a copylefted project. (was Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence)

2019-03-21 Thread Paul Jakma
puter programme may be subject to copyright (in England, and places that may pay some heed to reasoning in judgements there; e.g, Ibcos .. v Barclays 1994). Copying these can infringe copyright - without /any/ literal copying, without any explicit referencing. regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.or

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-20 Thread Paul Jakma
On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, Ole Streicher wrote: Paul Jakma writes: On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, Ole Streicher wrote: #include int main(void) { zlog_rotate(); return 0; } This work is completely based on my own, there is no intellectual property of someone else in my source code. Except for the big

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-20 Thread Paul Jakma
dds with the solicitors I have had advice from. Otherwise you must point to a certain code file and prove that it contains code which is a modified copy of an GPLed file. Which you not did yet. I have given examples of files where the legal advice is that they are derived works of the GPL code

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-20 Thread Paul Jakma
On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, Ole Streicher wrote: GPLv2, section 2 explicitly allows aggregation: | In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Progra How can this apply to a derived work, which is based on the GPL work? regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-20 Thread Paul Jakma
detail which no lawyer I've dealt with seems to think has much bearing on this. regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF6A Fortune: But what can you do with it? -- ubiquitous cry from Linux-user partner

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-20 Thread Paul Jakma
are deriving of the library. regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF6A Fortune: E Pluribus Unix

Re: no need to keep non-copylefted files that way in a copylefted project. (was Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence)

2019-03-20 Thread Paul Jakma
that there is a violation. You're a software engineer. regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF6A Fortune: Why are you so hard to ignore?

Re: no need to keep non-copylefted files that way in a copylefted project. (was Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence)

2019-03-20 Thread Paul Jakma
can seek your advice on that, and I'll take my own. I would not consider that a solution, and not helpful or friendly. regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF6A Fortune: The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides. -- Andre

Re: no need to keep non-copylefted files that way in a copylefted project. (was Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence)

2019-03-20 Thread Paul Jakma
to, for their own financial benefit. regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF6A Fortune: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-20 Thread Paul Jakma
On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, Paul Jakma wrote: No, you can't just take GPL of code mine, libify it and say it's OK for it be used in proprietary code, without my agreement. Oh, and even if I myself have already put that GPL code in a library, it's still not OK for you to say "You ca

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-20 Thread Paul Jakma
dunno. The evidence he supplied wasn't particularly convincing, but I can see where he's coming from. Thanks. regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF6A Fortune: Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter _what_ the circumstances

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-20 Thread Paul Jakma
pt are law in many countries around the world. regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF6A Fortune: Interference between the keyboard and the chair.

Re: no need to keep non-copylefted files that way in a copylefted project. (was Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence)

2019-03-20 Thread Paul Jakma
to re-implement the GPL portions and get out of their legal mess, I would want to take advice on. Even if they did so, it would not excuse them from the years of infringement they have already carried out, which remains ongoing. regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-20 Thread Paul Jakma
(see Section 2). I'm not sure why you keep asking about unmodified files. The GPL applies to more than just any unmodified files. Please clarify. regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF6A Fortune: Al didn't smile for forty years. You've got to admire a man

Re: no need to keep non-copylefted files that way in a copylefted project. (was Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence)

2019-03-20 Thread Paul Jakma
ways forward repeatedly): Just adding a header will no longer solve this. Also, if 3rd parties were to do this, outside of a wider agreement with copyright holders that would resolve all this, it would likely just aggravate the situation further. regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-20 Thread Paul Jakma
- it is very deliberate, as the FRR people have repeatedly made clear (and are adamant) that they are not distributing these files under the GPL. regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF6A Fortune: If Nvidia would like to pay me as much as Microsoft is paid for driver

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-19 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, Ole Streicher wrote: Paul Jakma writes: The people involved in (3) - Linux Foundation, Cumulus Networks, 6WIND, Big Switch Networks, etc. - refuse to acknowledge the legal reality that the code of (3) is covered by the GPL licence of the code of (2), and refuse to honour

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-19 Thread Paul Jakma
Correction: On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, Paul Jakma wrote: On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, Roberto wrote: On the other side, if I understood correctly, there are authors who want to contribute their code under GPL exclusively, and they feel that some of their changes got included into the bundled libraries

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-19 Thread Paul Jakma
of copyright holders of (2), where those copyright holders objected to what the people of (3) were doing. regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF6A Fortune: The typical page layout program is nothing more than an electronic light table for cutting and pasting documents.

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-19 Thread Paul Jakma
air Woodman or David Lamparter are involved in, etc., publish their legal advice on this matter. regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF6A Fortune: Someone is broadcasting pigmy packets and the router dosn't know how to deal with them.

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-18 Thread Paul Jakma
lier email on trying to separate the code (and if you google you might find more on that). regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF6A Fortune: I have a better idea: force CONFIG_DEBUG_* if CONFIG_DEVFS_FS had been set _and_ taint the kernel with new flag -

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-18 Thread Paul Jakma
, presumably, are those where BSD/MIT code has been imported but /not/ modified and extended such that that code derives from GPL licensed code. Which is a different case to this case. regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF6A Fortune: Everyone talks about

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-18 Thread Paul Jakma
is that the code concerned is deriving of the GPL code. I will stick with the views of those qualified solicitors, over the view of a software engineer, at least on legal matters. regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF6A Fortune: Cohen's Law

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-18 Thread Paul Jakma
On Mon, 18 Mar 2019, David Given wrote: On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 at 11:10 Paul Jakma wrote: [...] One would need to obtain a licence from all the copyright holders concerned. According to advice, I am one of those copyright holders. And that includes having a copyright interest in the code

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-18 Thread Paul Jakma
regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF6A Fortune: Don't hit the keys so hard, it hurts.

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-16 Thread Paul Jakma
informing debian-legal of that advice, given that Debian appears to be distributing the infringing work. regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF6A Fortune: Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-16 Thread Paul Jakma
th respect to work I hold copyright in. regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF6A Fortune: Tuesday After Lunch is the cosmic time of the week.

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-16 Thread Paul Jakma
On Sat, 16 Mar 2019, Don Armstrong wrote: On Sat, 16 Mar 2019, Paul Jakma wrote: The code concerned however is explicitly /not/ being distributed under the terms required by the GPL licence, but rather much weaker licences (BSD or MIT/X11, e.g.). Licenses which fail to implement the reciprocal

FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-16 Thread Paul Jakma
is unlicensed. I reserve the right to recover damages and compensation, to the greatest extent allowed by relevant laws, from anyone any unlicensed use or distribution of code I hold copyright in. regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF6A Fortune: "What

Re: Hacking License

2018-12-11 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 11 Dec 2018, Paul Jakma wrote: Much easier would be a licence where all you had to show was that the software was passed on, and that that act on its own was sufficient to trigger the general source distribution requirement (modulo "desert island", etc., which pretty ob

Re: Hacking License

2018-12-11 Thread Paul Jakma
events one from selling GPL source code. ;) regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF6A Fortune: Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. -- Woody Allen, "Annie Hall"

Re: Hacking License

2018-12-11 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 11 Dec 2018, Giacomo Tesio wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 13:06, Paul Jakma wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2018, Giacomo Tesio wrote: Unless there is some really compelling reason the modifier can not make their changes available (desert island, dissident), why not just require they make

Re: Hacking License

2018-12-11 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 11 Dec 2018, Giacomo Tesio wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 12:22, Paul Jakma wrote: Personally, I want a copyleft for the 'gitlab/github/gogs' era: Source must be made available, unless you're on a desert island or there is a credibly physical risk of imprisonment or harm

Re: Hacking License

2018-12-11 Thread Paul Jakma
r supports that extension and showing it to the user? How do you show the user "interacted" with your software? Seems unreliable / risky / unlikely to achieve the goal, if tested. regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF6A Fortune: Conceit causes mo

Re: Hacking License

2018-12-10 Thread Paul Jakma
other bits (or implementations of) the distributed system. I think maybe you are seriously undervaluing the benefits of using a licence that everyone already knows and that is compatible with many other Free Software licences. regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF

Re: Cisco EIGRP patent licence and the GPLv2 licence

2017-07-05 Thread Paul Jakma
t get clarity on is that issue of the reasonable degree of caution, and the appropriate balance between different interests). regards, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF6A Fortune: If you don't have time to do it right, where are you going to find the time to do it over?

Cisco EIGRP patent licence and the GPLv2 licence

2017-07-04 Thread Paul Jakma
answer to that question change in any way if it is the GPLv3+ instead? Thanks, -- Paul Jakma | p...@jakma.org | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF6A Fortune: The faster we go, the rounder we get. -- The Grateful Dead