Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Fedora not free enough for GNU?

2008-09-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions This struck me as rather strange, especially considering their guidelines are actually based on Fedora's (and we are thanked for it): http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html As far as I remember, Rahul Sundaram

[Fedora-legal-list] Re: About breaking GPL license and copyrights on Fedora Core.

2008-10-15 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Giulio Fidente wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rahul Sundaram wrote: Jon Stanley wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no need to translate. Refer http://www.linux-xp.com/. I haven't looked for source code. Interesting

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: About breaking GPL license and copyrights on Fedora Core.

2008-10-15 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Josh Boyer wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:49:07PM -0400, Jon Stanley wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Tom spot Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like they're distributing some source code. Are there specific areas of concern? According to the website, the software requires

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Concerns over SIF OFL

2009-03-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Richard Fontana wrote: On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:30:52 +0530 Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Bruce Perens comments on some loopholes with OFL that allows anyone to use fonts licensed under them as public domain equivalent. Since Fedora has been recommending it over all other font

[Fedora-legal-list] Re: Speech recognition

2009-03-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Kevin Kofler wrote: Rahul Sundaram wrote: No. They are not firmware and cannot be considered as one. They are not firmware, but are they content? Non-code content, e.g. game data, is allowed under the same rules as firmware. On the other hand, this does not apply for things like fonts

[Fedora-legal-list] Fedora guidelines on patents

2009-03-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi Looks like we are getting a lot of discussions on patents in fedora-devel list now. Perhaps the section on patents can explicitly mention our stand point on patents a bit more clearer? I am thinking of something like the following within the guidelines or in a separate page references by the

[Fedora-legal-list] Move code vs content into licensing guidelines

2009-03-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi This entire section would be a better fit as part of the licensing guidelines, IMO. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Code_Vs_Content The distinction is important because packaging committee is not in charge of the licensing guidelines. Rahul

[Fedora-legal-list] Linux firmware

2009-04-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi Planet GNOME points to this bug now which is apparently non-redistributable firmware being included in Ubuntu for quite sometime. Just a heads up to make sure we aren't having the same problem. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/+bug/223212 Rahul

[Fedora-legal-list] Another list of potential issues

2009-04-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi I know there are differences in legal policies but there might be common problems as well. http://www.mail-archive.com/gnewsense-...@nongnu.org/msg00125.html Rahul ___ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@redhat.com

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Question on legal issues

2009-05-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/09/2009 12:40 PM, Panagiotis Galiotos wrote: Dear all I'm trying to get familiar with Fedora Core 9. I would like to ask you if I can use this OS in my work for making profit or if this kind of usage is not permitted under the licence terms of FC 9 ? Please let me know about that,

[Fedora-legal-list] CEPL license - acceptable?

2009-05-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi It is a MPL variant but I would like legal to review the variations. http://www.celtx.com/CePL/ Rahul ___ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list

[Fedora-legal-list] Font license - free?

2009-05-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi Is this font license considered free for Fedora? http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com/aksharyogini.html Rahul ___ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list

[Fedora-legal-list] CATS Public License 1.1 a

2009-05-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi http://fpaste.org/paste/13016 The later versions of this software is now proprietary but the older versions have this modified version of MPL. Please review. Rahul ___ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@redhat.com

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] EUPL v1.1 ?

2009-05-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/29/2009 12:40 PM, Caolán McNamara wrote: Assuming that the EUPL v1.1 remains unacceptable, can someone e.g. dual licence something as EUPL v1.X and say LGPLv2 in order to make it acceptable for us. If a software is dual licensed and if any one of them is acceptable to Fedora, the

[Fedora-legal-list] Songbird and EULA

2009-06-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi Potential issue with Songbird and EULA is brewing at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453422#c64 Appreciate some comments from legal on this. Rahul ___ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@redhat.com

[Fedora-legal-list] Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-06-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/29/2009 08:49 PM, drago01 wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: drago01 wrote: Another don't use $LANGUAGE because its evil post from RMS. So what? His concerns are real. Depends on how you read them and whether you agree with him or not. And for most cases I

[Fedora-legal-list] Fedora Mozilla trademark agreement

2009-07-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, I have heard it exists but haven't actually seen it. Shouldn't it be publicly available? Rahul ___ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Mono update

2009-07-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/08/2009 03:43 AM, Luis Villa wrote: Sure, though of course we know they've gone around suing using companies before, so if I were a company-based contributor to Fedora (or a mirror) I'd be a bit twitchy. Then, it would be up to the company to consider joining OIN. You don't have to

[Fedora-legal-list] A new GCC runtime library license snag?

2009-07-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, Just a heads up in case, Legal isn't aware of this problem http://lwn.net/Articles/343608/ Rahul ___ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list

[Fedora-legal-list] Re: can Libertine fonts be embedded in non-gpl application?

2009-09-19 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/19/2009 08:17 PM, Brandon Casey wrote: I am interested in embedding the Libertine font within an application at work, so that this application can produce documents using the Libertine font. The target systems will not have the Libertine fonts installed. I know I can distribute the

[Fedora-legal-list] Adobe CMap and AGLFN data now free software!

2009-09-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, FYI, http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2009/09/24/adobe-data-freed/ Rahul ___ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list

[Fedora-legal-list] Re: New blog post

2009-10-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/08/2009 12:40 AM, Colby Hoke wrote:. For example, there was a remix of the Truth Happens video that was put in with some very questionable material. It was offensive. Due to the copyright (back then we used copyright), we were able to go after that video and, I assume, have it taken it