On Monday 19 October 2009 3:42:31 am Ben Finney wrote:
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes:
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au
wrote:
This grants no permission to redistribute. What license from the
copyright holder does the Debian project have to
Mackenzie Morgan maco...@gmail.com writes:
On Monday 19 October 2009 3:42:31 am Ben Finney wrote:
Perhaps the copyright holder doesn't realise that, if he grants
additional permissions that “welcome packaging and redistribution”,
that *is* changing the license (at least, the license as
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes:
Far better than a separate statement in email, the full license terms
should simply be updated in a new release of the work. That way, every
recipient has access to the full terms under which they can act.
Then the new license terms can be
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-Original Message-
From: Ben Finney [mailto:ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au]
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3:20 PM
To: debian-legal@lists.debian.org
Cc: Mackenzie Morgan; Jim Larus
Subject: Re: RFS: spim
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Jim Larus la...@microsoft.com wrote:
OK, let's make this simple.
The Debian project has permission to distribute spim and xspim.
...
Is this sufficient?
Great, thanks!
Some permission to modify and distribute modified versions would be
useful in the case a
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-Original Message-
From: paul.is.w...@gmail.com [mailto:paul.is.w...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Paul
Wise
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 5:59 PM
To: Jim Larus
Cc: debian-legal@lists.debian.org; Mackenzie Morgan
Subject: Re: RFS: spim
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009
Jim Larus la...@microsoft.com writes:
Just to confirm: I give permission to any open source project to
modify and distribute spim and xspim, so long as my name and copyright
remains on the code.
Thanks for persisting with this.
However, this is insufficient for the work to meet the Debian
-Original Message-
From: Ben Finney [mailto:ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au]
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 7:41 PM
To: Jim Larus
Cc: debian-legal@lists.debian.org; Mackenzie Morgan
Subject: Re: RFS: spim
Jim Larus la...@microsoft.com writes:
Just to confirm: I give permission to any open
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes:
* Package name: spim
Version : 7.5-1
When I was asked to some university exercises with spim I used spimsal
4.4.2, a fork of an older version of spim that advertises itself to be
available under the terms of the GPL v1. How about
On Monday 19 October 2009 5:10:54 am Ben Finney wrote:
Okay. The Debian project still needs the copyright holder's explicit
license to redistribute, otherwise the work can't even be in ‘non-free’.
I talked to Larus and he said he would send a statement to Debian Legal. Does
that work?
--
Mackenzie Morgan maco...@gmail.com writes:
On Monday 19 October 2009 5:10:54 am Ben Finney wrote:
Okay. The Debian project still needs the copyright holder's explicit
license to redistribute, otherwise the work can't even be in
‘non-free’.
I talked to Larus and he said he would send a
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
Mackenzie Morgan maco...@gmail.com writes:
The license is as follows:
You may make copies of SPIM for your own use and modify those copies.
All copies of SPIM must retain my name and copyright notice.
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes:
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au
wrote:
This grants no permission to redistribute. What license from the
copyright holder does the Debian project have to redistribute this
in ‘non-free’?
If the answer is “nothing
On Monday 19 October 2009 3:42:31 am Ben Finney wrote:
Since it seems the copyright holder wants to have as little hassle from
copyright licensing as possible, I would suggest the terms of the Expat
license URL:http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt as being brief,
easily-understood, and
Le Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 06:42:31PM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit :
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes:
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/s/spim/current/copyright
Not only that, it isn't an explicit statement from the copyright holder
at all; it's someone else reporting in
[sending again, this time with Mackenzie's requested Cc]
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes:
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes:
IMO, the statement isn't particularly clear and I would not want
Debian to rely on it.
Not only that, it isn't an explicit statement from the copyright
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes:
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes:
IMO, the statement isn't particularly clear and I would not want
Debian to rely on it.
Not only that, it isn't an explicit statement from the copyright
holder at all; it's someone else reporting in their own
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes:
Le Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 06:42:31PM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit :
Not only that, it isn't an explicit statement from the copyright
holder at all; it's someone else reporting in their own words:
[…]
That's far from what we normally require: explicit
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
I think it's unlikely that an alert ftpmaster would today allow it into
the archive in such a state, and I'm alerting the maintainer of this.
In case you missed it, spim has been removed from Debian for a long
time
Mackenzie Morgan maco...@gmail.com writes:
[Please CC me in replies]
Done. I am sending to the ‘debian-legal’ forum, to discuss the license
terms of the work.
* Package name: spim
Version : 7.5-1
Upstream Author : James R. Larus la...@microsoft.com
* URL :
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