Re: request

2001-05-05 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
On Sat, May 05, 2001, Sergio Brandano wrote: By law, there must be a legal agreement between the author and the publisher. If no such explicit agreement exists, then the author is still the owner of the copy-rights, and can decide what to do with that material, at any time. You still

Re: request

2001-05-07 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
On Sat, May 05, 2001, Sergio Brandano wrote: I am tired of all these messages! Stop posting! Well, if you are tired of 'em, why keep you asking for 'em? *wonders* You have to understand that no person or institute owns your copyright if you do not transfer the ownership in writing via a

swirl infringement by electrostore.se

2003-08-27 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! Any news on the case of the swirl they have in their logo? I can't see any trace about this at all, the last question on this topic still stands unanswered (from what I can see). It looks like noone seems to care about this rip off at all and I don't know where Sunnanvind Fenderson

Re: Proposed addition to Debian web pages re: GNU FDL

2003-08-28 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-08-28 02:10]: Motivation: some people seem to wish to remain in denial about the project's decision on this matter. This will help their psychological problem. ;-) It is no good for the (what I know) still unfinished discussion on that topic if

Re: swirl infringement by electrostore.se

2003-08-29 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Sunnanvind Fenderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-08-28 20:03]: I haven't been seeing my mail on debian-legal lately, maybe I have some email troubles.. hopefully the CC will get through, though. I received it at least. (Gerfried, if my email to debian-legal doesn't get there, would you kindly

Is the OSL DFSG free?

2003-09-02 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! Someone raised an idea on IRC that I might see as valid: Isn't Section 10 of the OSL (Mutual Termination for Patent Action) a violation of Section 5 of the DFSG (No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups)? It clearly discriminates persons filing a law suite against a OSL

Re: Is the OSL DFSG free?

2003-09-02 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-02 11:49]: On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:02:50PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Isn't Section 10 of the OSL (Mutual Termination for Patent Action) a violation of Section 5 of the DFSG (No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups)? It clearly

Re: Is the OSL DFSG free?

2003-09-02 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-02 18:46]: On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:02:50PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Isn't Section 10 of the OSL (Mutual Termination for Patent Action) a violation of Section 5 of the DFSG (No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups)? It clearly

Re: Is the OSL DFSG free?

2003-09-02 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Brian T. Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-02 15:32]: Gerfried Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-02 18:46]: In its ultimate form, the MIT/X11 license is non-free because it discriminates against people trying to sell the software. Thats one

Re: Is the OSL DFSG free?

2003-09-03 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-03 09:50]: On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:46:52PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: * Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-02 18:46]: In its ultimate form, the MIT/X11 license is non-free because it discriminates against people trying to sell

Re: Something for CD vendors page

2003-09-16 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Craig Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-16 09:21]: I think the page needs some information about it, roughly saying here the vendors are but they're not related do Debian and we dont endorse them or something. I don't want it to be too down as the majority of vendors are fine businesses.

moin may contain non-free licensed test

2004-10-14 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! [please Cc: me on replies, I am not subscribed but read through the archive] I've found a quite strange thing in one of my moin installs, and I need to get some more opinions on it before I write the RC bug against the package. It is a German license text, so people not able to

Re: RFC: Debian License Information on www.debian.org

2004-04-30 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-30 03:49]: I just completed the first version of these pages (loosly based on the pages of the security team), put them online and added a first license, OPL, based on the summary on debian-legal by Jeremy Hankins. I would say, we definitely need

Re: RFC: Debian License Information on www.debian.org

2004-05-10 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-05-04 07:53]: On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 01:09:21AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:17:29AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: I would say, we definitely need to relicense our website[1], then I agree. Given that we haven't asked

scummvm dependent games: non-free?

2004-06-25 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! [Please Cc: me on replies, I'm not subscribed to this list -- OTOH I'll watch the archive for answers anyway] I wonder why the games Beneath a Steel Sky and Flight of the Amazon Queen are in main. To me the license is quite clearly non-free, because its for non-commercial use only:

Re: When can we make some progress on the logo and trademarks?

2006-01-19 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-18 22:39]: Gerfried Fuchs wrote: There is one last point that I really want to raise, though: I guess we won't have to discuss that our very own beloved swirl logo has a non-free licence. We have discussed this. -legal agreed that the license

logo license with debian - no warranty missing?

2010-06-27 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! On #debian-www will raised concerns that there might be issues with respect to our logo license for including the debian lettering. It doesn't contain a warranty waiver, and given that we publish svg images which could contain potential harmful scripting (from will's interpretation,

Re: No source code for wesnoth-music

2012-04-16 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi, first of all, I'd like to point out that this topic is NOT a wesnoth specific one. I have tried to bring up the point several times in the past (even years ago), it was always sorta ignored, even though people said that yeah, surely the flattened images/music scores aren't source nor