Re: License requiring to reproduce copyrights in binary distributions.

2009-07-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 07:00:23AM +0200, Florian Weimer a écrit : * Charles Plessy: - The GPL, that assumes that the source is always available, and therefore does not have special requirements for binary distributions. This is incorrect. If the binary includes copyright statements

Re: License requiring to reproduce copyrights in binary distributions.

2009-07-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Charles Plessy: - The GPL, that assumes that the source is always available, and therefore does not have special requirements for binary distributions. This is incorrect. If the binary includes copyright statements to display them, you may not remove them (see §5 (d) in the GPL version

Re: License requiring to reproduce copyrights in binary distributions.

2009-07-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 10:02:42PM +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : If you are convinced that a public-domain-like situation is actually desirable, then, AFAIK, the best way to achieve it is the Creative Commons public domain dedication [1], or possibly CC0 [2]. [1]

Re: License requiring to reproduce copyrights in binary distributions.

2009-07-03 Thread MJ Ray
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote: It appeared in various discussions about either DEP5 or the NEW queue that licenses vary in their requirement for reproducing the authors copyrights in binary distributions. [...] I wonder if the licence requirements are the deciding factor. With the

Re: License requiring to reproduce copyrights in binary distributions.

2009-07-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 09:10:10AM +0100, MJ Ray a écrit : Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote: It appeared in various discussions about either DEP5 or the NEW queue that licenses vary in their requirement for reproducing the authors copyrights in binary distributions. [...] I wonder

Re: License requiring to reproduce copyrights in binary distributions.

2009-07-03 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:39:26 +0900 Charles Plessy wrote: [...] I can re-release under the BOLA license with a WTFPL exemption: ‘To all effects and purposes, this work is to be considered Public Domain, but if you do not agree this is possible, then just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.’ I've

Re: License requiring to reproduce copyrights in binary distributions.

2009-07-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org (02/07/2009): […] may I suggest the BOLA license, that is a politically correct version of the WTFPL? http://blitiri.com.ar/p/bola/ Quoting it: | The BOLA text | Here's the text. I usually place it in a file named LICENSE in the top directory of the project.

Re: License requiring to reproduce copyrights in binary distributions.

2009-07-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 03:52:40PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : | | There is no such thing as “putting a work in the public domain”, you | America-centered, Commonwealth-biased individual. Public domain varies | with the jurisdictions, and it is in some places debatable whether | someone

License requiring to reproduce copyrights in binary distributions.

2009-07-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, It appeared in various discussions about either DEP5 or the NEW queue that licenses vary in their requirement for reproducing the authors copyrights in binary distributions. In order to start clarifying the situation, I propose to list for the most common licenses when they require to

Re: License requiring to reproduce copyrights in binary distributions.

2009-07-01 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 23:57:28 +0900 Charles Plessy wrote: Dear all, [...] I propose to make this list on the Debian wiki, and created a draft page: http://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightNotices Could you please explicitly state (in the wiki page itself) the license under which the wiki page is

Re: License requiring to reproduce copyrights in binary distributions.

2009-07-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 07:03:03PM +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 23:57:28 +0900 Charles Plessy wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightNotices Could you please explicitly state (in the wiki page itself) the license under which the wiki page is released? All my