Re: [Fedora-legal-list] java-gnome: GPLv2 with a classpath exception like statement

2009-12-31 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alexander Boström a...@root.snowtree.se wrote: I'm hoping it can be added to the acceptable licenses list. Presumably after that happens I can put License: GPLv2 with exceptions in the corresponding spec file. Is it wrong to fall back to License: GPLv2 in the meantime? I'd like to have the

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Linking an LGPL library statically to an GPL program

2009-11-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
Orcan Ogetbil oget.fed...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Orcan Ogetbil wrote: Yes but you are missing one thing. The library is LGPLv2. It is not LGPLv2+. Doesn't it make the resultant binary GPLv2, without the + ? There is nothing

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Legal CD/DVD/BD writing software for RedHat and Fedora

2009-06-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/06/09 11:10, Joerg Schilling wrote: Frank Murphyfrankl...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/06/09 00:25, Joerg Schilling wrote: Is there no RedHat lawyer in this list? If you believe you have a case. Hire, a lawyer. No one is stopping you

[Fedora-legal-list] Legal CD/DVD/BD writing software for RedHat and Fedora

2009-06-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
Hi! In former times, there was an excellent cooperative relationship between the development of cdrtools and the various Linux distributions (in special with Debian). Unfortunately, this changed in Spring 2004, a few months after the Debian package maintainer for the cdrtools has been replaced

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Legal CD/DVD/BD writing software for RedHat and Fedora

2009-06-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
Christoph Höger choe...@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote: I am not in any way officially speaking for fedora, Just my 2ct: 1. FSF is very explicit about GPL and CDDL: The FSF has no relevence for the cdrtools project as the FSF does not own Copyright on the project. Please let us discuss relevent text

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Legal CD/DVD/BD writing software for RedHat and Fedora

2009-06-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/06/09 20:45, Joerg Schilling wrote: Ciaran O'Riordancia...@member.fsf.org wrote: I know nothing about this story :-) but I happen to remember a part of the original debate back in 2006, so for context here it is: http://lwn.net/Articles

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Legal CD/DVD/BD writing software for RedHat and Fedora

2009-06-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Joerg Schillingjoerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: I am not going to re-introduce a license that acording to the private interpretation from the initiator of the fork is not a valid OSS license,

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Legal CD/DVD/BD writing software for RedHat and Fedora

2009-06-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/06/09 22:27, Joerg Schilling wrote: Frank Murphyfrankl...@gmail.com wrote: Please read this: http://www.rosenlaw.com/Rosen_Ch06.pdf Why, they didn't write the GPL. But Rosen gives useful and cleanly legal based explanations. Give

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Legal CD/DVD/BD writing software for RedHat and Fedora

2009-06-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com wrote: Please read this:        http://www.rosenlaw.com/Rosen_Ch06.pdf It gives valid legal theories for all claims and it explains why there is no problem. So far I've read the first 1/3 of the document and everything I've read