Re: Plugins for non-free software in orig.tar.gz

2010-07-15 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hi, OK, I'll try to do that. Thank you very much to you and the rest for your advices. Cheers. On Monday 12 July 2010 23:15:59 Francesco Poli wrote: On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 19:44:33 +0200 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: [...] So what should I do about this whole issue? Summarize all

Re: Plugins for non-free software in orig.tar.gz

2010-07-14 Thread Rudolf Polzer
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:14:11PM -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Rudolf Polzer divver...@alientrap.org wrote: Do I then get into trouble with the GPL, as the source tarball contains code that links to non-GPL compatible code? You can't

Re: Plugins for non-free software in orig.tar.gz

2010-07-14 Thread Wols Lists
On 13/07/10 14:54, Rudolf Polzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 09:35:14AM +0100, Wols Lists wrote: On 13/07/10 06:38, Rudolf Polzer wrote: I have another such case where I would be upstream. I currently have a library that I am the only copyright holder of, that is currently under

Re: Plugins for non-free software in orig.tar.gz

2010-07-13 Thread Rudolf Polzer
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:15:59PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: I think that probably the safest course of action is summarizing the issues to upstream copyright holders, without directly involving them in debian-legal discussions. I have another such case where I would be upstream. I

Re: Plugins for non-free software in orig.tar.gz

2010-07-13 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:38:50 +0200 Rudolf Polzer wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:15:59PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: I think that probably the safest course of action is summarizing the issues to upstream copyright holders, without directly involving them in debian-legal discussions.

Re: Plugins for non-free software in orig.tar.gz

2010-07-13 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Rudolf Polzer divver...@alientrap.orgwrote: I have another such case where I would be upstream. I currently have a library that I am the only copyright holder of. If you're the sole copyright holder, you can do whatever you like with the code. The license

Re: Plugins for non-free software in orig.tar.gz

2010-07-12 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 19:44:33 +0200 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: [...] So what should I do about this whole issue? Summarize all the problems that we've pointed out and write to this list and the authors to discuss the whole issue together? Ask to them and post here about their

Re: Plugins for non-free software in orig.tar.gz

2010-07-06 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
On Sunday 04 July 2010 12:34:59 Francesco Poli wrote: On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 10:49:30 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote: On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 02:49:55 +0200 Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 01 juillet 2010 à 00:40 +0200, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo a écrit : [...] $ head -7

Re: Plugins for non-free software in orig.tar.gz

2010-07-06 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hi, On Saturday 03 July 2010 02:49:55 Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 01 juillet 2010 à 00:40 +0200, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo a écrit : Of course, the quickest and easiest solution, until the licensing is clarified, is dropping the scripts from the package... First of all, I

Re: Plugins for non-free software in orig.tar.gz

2010-07-04 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 10:49:30 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote: On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 02:49:55 +0200 Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 01 juillet 2010 à 00:40 +0200, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo a écrit : [...] $ head -7 shaders/surface/metal.sl /* metal.sl - Standard metal surface for

Re: Plugins for non-free software in orig.tar.gz

2010-07-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 04 juillet 2010 à 12:34 +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : I wonder whether those shaders should be considered as purely functional in nature, and thus not copyrightable: I seem to recall that there's U.S. case law about a functionality exception to copyright protection, and the

Re: Plugins for non-free software in orig.tar.gz

2010-06-30 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:49:39 +0200 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: [...] On Wednesday 30 June 2010 00:48:45 Francesco Poli wrote: I packaged Aqsis recently: http://packages.debian.org/source/unstable/aqsis Thank you for doing so: it looks like an interesting tool... Actually

Re: Plugins for non-free software in orig.tar.gz

2010-06-30 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 23:27:41 Francesco Poli wrote: Actually it was already packaged long ago, I'm just packaging the latest version since the maintainer has been unattending it for years. This is even more appreciated: in many cases, adopting an (officially or de-facto) orphaned

Plugins for non-free software in orig.tar.gz

2010-06-29 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hello, (Please CC me in the replies, I'm not subscribed to the ML). I packaged Aqsis recently: http://packages.debian.org/source/unstable/aqsis and it contains a kind of plugin, adaptor or something like that for a software called Houdini [1], which is a high-end 3D animation package

Re: Plugins for non-free software in orig.tar.gz

2010-06-29 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:08:00 +0200 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: Hello, Hello! :-) (Please CC me in the replies, I'm not subscribed to the ML). Done. I packaged Aqsis recently: http://packages.debian.org/source/unstable/aqsis Thank you for doing so: it looks like an

Re: Plugins for non-free software in orig.tar.gz

2010-06-29 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hi, On Wednesday 30 June 2010 00:48:45 Francesco Poli wrote: I packaged Aqsis recently: http://packages.debian.org/source/unstable/aqsis Thank you for doing so: it looks like an interesting tool... Actually it was already packaged long ago, I'm just packaging the latest version since the