Re: Question about the Vovida licence

2001-01-26 Thread Samuel Hocevar
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001, Jérôme Marant wrote: 4. Products derived from this software may not be called VOCAL, nor may VOCAL appear in their name, without prior written permission. Is this compatible with the third clause of the DFSG ? It looks like a restriction on the distribution.

Re: Integrity of Source Code

2000-11-29 Thread Samuel Hocevar
may Apache appear in their names without prior written *permission of the Apache Group. You might find this solution acceptable, since it is DFSG compatible. Regards, Sam. -- Samuel Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sam.zoy.org/ for DVDs in Linux screw the MPAA and ; do dig

Re: GPL question

2000-09-05 Thread Samuel Hocevar
. -- Samuel Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.via.ecp.fr/~sam/ 1024D/29499F61 1999-04-221155 4B19 A50F 1136 6E60 A499 7CF3 F5AF 2949 9F61 dig goret.org @zoy.org axfr \ | perl -e 'for(sort()){print pack(H32,$1) if(/^c..\.(\w+)/)}' | gzip -d

Re: Is this license DFSG-free?

2000-08-21 Thread Samuel Hocevar
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000, Andrew Stribblehill wrote: I want to package something with this license. Is it acceptable to go into main? I'm most concerned with the 2nd paragraph -- does it pass DFSG 1? I don't think so. Also, this license does not explicitly allow modification and redistribution

About MPEG2 and DVDs

2000-07-14 Thread Samuel Hocevar
project [2] http://www.opendvd.org/ - about legal issues of DVD playback [3] http://www.linuxvideo.org/ - the Linux DVD effort -- Samuel Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.via.ecp.fr/~sam/ Do not try and fight the Cabal. That's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth

Re: DFSG Par. 9 and GPL Virulogical effekt

2000-04-22 Thread Samuel Hocevar
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000, Florian Lohoff wrote: The paragraph says License Must NOT Contaminate Other Software. As Debian and the FSF agree that the GPL and QPL are incompatible and this is mainly the cause of the GPL which requires the whole work distributed under THIS license this means a

Re: PINE Clone

1999-12-22 Thread Samuel Hocevar
, but it might be worth a look : http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/mutt/#nntp Sam. -- Samuel Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.via.ecp.fr/~sam/ echo what is the universe|tr a-z 0-7-0-729|sed 's/9.//g;s/-/+/'|bc

Re: GPL source vs. binary

1999-11-18 Thread Samuel Hocevar
, according to the GPL's section 0 (if I didn't miss anything there - IANAL). Thus I think it can only be licensed under the GPL, unless of course the author decides to release it under another license as well. Sam. -- Samuel Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.via.ecp.fr/~sam/ echo what

Re: the new IglooFTP license

1999-07-30 Thread Samuel Hocevar
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999, Steve Greenland wrote: On 28-Jul-99, 07:57 (CDT), Samuel Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile, he implemented Igor's patch for VMS to one of those two 0.6.1 versions. This is the most alarming section. Did the patch go into the new proprietary version

the new IglooFTP license

1999-07-28 Thread Samuel Hocevar
in the non-free version of IglooFTP ? Thanks a lot for your information, Sam. -- Samuel Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.via.ecp.fr/~sam/ echo what is the universe|tr a-z 0-7-0-729|sed 's/9.//g;s/-/+/'|bc