Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Fedora content downstream at Wikipedia

2009-12-14 Thread Richard Fontana
On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:28:54 -0800 Luis Villa l...@tieguy.org wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Karsten Wade kw...@redhat.com wrote: But there is an additional clause in contributing content to Wikipedia, that it be contributed under the GFDL:

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Please define effective license (for the love of consistency)

2009-12-13 Thread Richard Fontana
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:29:57 -0800 Julius Davies juliusdav...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Maybe the overall master copyright license for the Fedora compilation causes every single GPL+ compatible file inside Fedora to be licensed as GPL+ ? So every LGPL, BSD, MIT file which *can* be relicensed

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Fedora and MS-PL (Dynamic Language Runtime)

2009-12-05 Thread Richard Fontana
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:31:28 -0500 saulgo...@flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com wrote: I won't speculate as to whether it was the intent of the authors of the Microsoft Public License to consider mere aggregation to be excluded from the scope of their reciprocal terms and conditions[14], but

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Is this the MIT license?

2009-11-02 Thread Richard Fontana
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:11:08 -0500 Bryan Kearney bkear...@redhat.com wrote: Not labeled as such, but I am pretty sure it is: http://github.com/ffi/ffi/blob/master/LICENSE No, BSD. - RF ___ Fedora-legal-list mailing list

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Helping the Fan project relicense from AFL

2009-10-12 Thread Richard Fontana
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:52:04 -0400 Michel Alexandre Salim michael.silva...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm currently discussing with the developers for Fan (http://fandev.org/), a JVM/CLR language, the possibility of them relicensing or dual-licensing from the Academic Free License. Current

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: [publican-list] Adjusting copyright information

2009-10-07 Thread Richard Fontana
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:01:52 -0400 Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 01:22:46PM +1000, Ruediger Landmann wrote: So far we've looked at the WTFPL[1], CC0[2], and the so-called GNU All-Permissive License[3]. We had to regretfully reject the WTFPL on the

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: [publican-list] Adjusting copyright information

2009-10-07 Thread Richard Fontana
[removed publican-list from cc] On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:44:54 -0500 Jason L Tibbitts III ti...@math.uh.edu wrote: [re: WTFPL] Might I suggest simply modifying the offensive language? I know license proliferation is bad, but if the result is legally equivalent and serves the necessary

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: Wikipedia license change

2009-05-28 Thread Richard Fontana
On Tue, 26 May 2009 17:29:20 -0400 Tom \spot\ Callaway tcall...@redhat.com wrote: I know Richard reads fedora-legal-list, so I'll wait for him to chime in, but in the past, he's expressed that he would very much like for us to move the wiki from OPL to CC-BY-SA. Such a decision should be made

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] wordpress plugins -- licensing

2009-04-02 Thread Richard Fontana
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 20:41:06 -0500 Ian Weller ianwel...@gmail.com wrote: http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/ states that all the plugins hosted on WordPress's website (the SVN repo is svn.wp-plugins.org, and wp-plugins.org redirects to the website listed first here) are licensed under the GPL

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] What should we do to use fedora like this?

2009-03-31 Thread Richard Fontana
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:28:16 +0530 Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org wrote: scottsiu wrote: Dear sir: We are Guangtian technology Ltd. Co., a System Integrator in China, and we have a issue on selling Fedora. We want to ask for your advice. A local notebook PC producer,

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Changing a license on source with nonresponsive or gone author

2009-03-12 Thread Richard Fontana
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:10:53 -0700 Ray Van Dolson ra...@bludgeon.org wrote: Hi all; This is in regards to an attempt to package figlet[1] for Fedora. It turns out that part of this package[2] is under a non-free license. Attempts to contact the author of this code have been thus far

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] APSL 1.0

2009-02-16 Thread Richard Fontana
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:52:43 + Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: APSL 1.0 is listed in Bad Licenses. Is this because it is non-free, or because it was deprecated and replaced (latest version of the license is APSL 2.0) ? I had a look at the license text[1] and it seems like

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] How to note 'GPLv3 with options taken'?

2008-08-29 Thread Richard Fontana
(IAARHL, IANASL[1], TINLA) On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:56:59 +1000 Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The GPLv3 allows certain options to be taken, so that it becomes compatible with a number of other licences, such as BSD varients. Samba4 includes a number of pieces of such code in the

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] How to note 'GPLv3 with options taken'?

2008-08-29 Thread Richard Fontana
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:45:15 -0400 Tom \spot\ Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a result of: If you add terms to a covered work in accord with this section, you must place, in the relevant source files, a statement of the additional terms that apply to those files, or a notice