Re: Question about GPL and CC-BY SA 3.0

2015-02-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
living in both countries). Bernhard R. Link -- F8AC 04D5 0B9B 064B 3383 C3DA AFFC 96D1 151D FFDC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150226231412.gb3...@client.brlink.eu

Re: Public Domain again

2013-02-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
gt; assume the work is under copyright with no license grant. It makes it very likely they have not understood it and thus leaving us with no proper license. (Though there are situations where it might not be that contradictionary, as it could also be the work's former copyright).

Re: "dissident test" has been proven wrong and should not be used any more

2012-09-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
fear this test can be used for. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120924165915.ga18...@client.brlink.eu

Re: "dissident test" has been proven wrong and should not be used any more

2012-09-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
; > That is exactly my position: "You do not need the dissident test". What you quote as being "exactly [your] position" is me trying to say that we need the dissident test. (And I hope noone gets DD who has not looked at it.) Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: "dissident test" has been proven wrong and should not be used any more

2012-09-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
an also just quote the DFSG. The tests are just a method to make people not look to much at the letter but at the spirit of the DFSG to distinguish some pure theoretical issues from real world issues, i.e. to bring some saneness into the discussion. Bernhard R. Link -- To U

Re: Java3D license incompatible with DFSG?

2012-09-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
). The combination with "designed" and "intended" also makes your interpretation hard to defend, because if copyright law was already forbidding the usage, what does it matter whether it was designed or intended for that case? Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Java3D license incompatible with DFSG?

2012-09-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
acknowledge" were conditions, it would not change much, as one is not allowed to do the first anyway and as long as the second is obviously true, there is no cost in acknowledging it). Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120915112550.ga28...@server.brlink.eu

Re: trademark in documents

2012-08-10 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ng which they do not and so on). > I guess this means that if my map have that logo then my map is not free, i > cant add it to Debian free packages. As long as the logo itself is under a free license and your map does not misuse any trademarks, I see no problem.. Bernhard R. Link

Re: Non-free postscript code in EPS image

2012-08-04 Thread Bernhard R. Link
mere arguments why the situation might not be how we all think it should be in an ideal world. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120805065925.ga14...@client.brlink.eu

Re: Non-free postscript code in EPS image

2012-07-31 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ead this correctly, some things you are allowed to embed, but only verbatimly and for specific purposes, but the limits are quite absurd and I'm not sure it even gives permission to distribute for all the stuff you find in some postscript files). Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBS

Re: meaning license statement

2012-06-05 Thread Bernhard R. Link
wed | to use this software for [...]. then I would not see any problem. Thus: > Bernhard R. Link, 2012-06-04 11:05+0200 (gmane.linux.debian.devel.legal): > > So it has no meaning to anyone else and for the US > > government it is about rules set by thatself, so this > > should no

Re: meaning license statement

2012-06-04 Thread Bernhard R. Link
it legal to copy it > and to include it in the package, or should it be removed? What do you mean with "removed" exactly? The statement itself is of course not to be removed from the file. For the file itself you need a license grant, just like for any other file you want to copy and d

Re: No source code for wesnoth-musicg

2012-04-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ce is only a problem once the question what source is is answered in a way that that is the source (or would be the source if it existed in case you allow conditional definitions). Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: libidn re-license

2012-03-09 Thread Bernhard R. Link
at is not in GPLv2? Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120309163203.ga3...@client.brlink.eu

Re: copyright law wackyness

2011-12-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Florian Weimer [111225 18:30]: > Germany has the same problem, I think, because in order to protect > authors from distributors (which are often quasi-monopolistic), there > are limits to what license grants authors can make. As a result, a > similar situation could theoretically arise. My fav

Re: copyright law wackyness

2011-12-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Paul Wise [111223 06:51]: > I read an extraordinary claim about the GPL on IRC and during the > ensuing discussions I discovered a couple of countries with unusual > copyright law. > > In Slovakia apparently license grants have to be "in writing", meaning > most software licenses have no effect

Re: a Free Platform License?

2011-11-30 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Hugo Roy [29 18:13]: > Le mardi 29 novembre 2011 à 17:38 +0100, Bernhard R. Link a écrit : > > Say I have a blog, that is created by some software. Assume that > > software contains AGPL code. Am I allowed to run a server that only > > serves my blog without paying f

Re: a Free Platform License?

2011-11-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
is no. Thus I consider it non-free. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2029163854.ga17...@server.brlink.eu

Re: a Free Platform License?

2011-11-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
on running the software. The GPL has no restriction on running, it has only restrictions on distribution. What good is it that I am allowed to share modifications to software if I am not allowed to run it? Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.

Re: a Free Platform License?

2011-11-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
LAs are more free than that). Or it does not restrict how you run your computer then this is a severe limitation on modification not having any positive effect to justify it. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: Fwd: Re: RFS: wmaker

2011-11-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Hendrik Weimer [15 15:50]: > US government works are only in the public domain when distributed > within the US. In all other countries that have signed the Berne > Convention you still need a license, which should also apply to many > Debian mirrors. It's a bit more complicated. As far as

Re: Comments regarding rhash_1.2.5-1_amd64.changes

2011-06-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
on grant, only one additional restriction, I not see what sense offering both makes.) Having the "Copyright YEAR NAME " form is most likely simply some form of folklore[1]. Debian prefers that folklore in debian/copyright, so might others, thus having it in the files makes it easier for

Re: Bug#628952: minidlna: Possible unknown copyright status of hardcoded image blobs in source code

2011-06-06 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ronically the most problematic countries might be those that have historically high requirements on creativity for work to be protected (as the general "needs creativity" rule has to be lifted for software in order to have any commercial software to be eligible) Bernhard R. Link

Re: How to use (free!) sources of other projects without copyright/license information in file?

2011-05-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
oper English, but for non-native speakers like me evidence is stuff good enough for court, which is far to strong here.). And having stuff marked as being from other sources is a very clear indication there might be at least some copyright line missing and very likely also a license. Bernha

Re: NASA Open Source Agreement

2011-04-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
al legislation[1]. The same situation like if some author is dead long enough for one legislation but not long enough for another, then the work can be public domain in some parts of the world and not public domain in other parts of the world. Bernhard R. Link [1] Berne has recipocity.

Re: scientific paper in package only in postscript form non-free?

2011-03-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
make any changes to it, it definitely is not source in any meaning useful to interpret the DFSG. And while postscript can be nice hand-written source, dvips generated postscript code is usually the exact opposite and most of the time even too opaque to even make trivial changes. Bernhar

Re: DEP5: Public domain works

2011-01-20 Thread Bernhard R. Link
#x27;t list "public in the USA", thus it would be granted to everybody. I'd suggest to ask a lawyer about statements like that. From what I understand it might be possible that one day the US goverment decides it wants to sue someone copying things like that outside the US and might win i

Re: NASA CDF

2010-12-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Teemu Ikonen [101212 20:15]: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > * Aaron M. Ucko [101210 20:36]: > >> > The conclusion I draw from the threads above is that the license above > >> > is DFSG-free. > >> > >> I agree

Re: NASA CDF

2010-12-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
> work falls into the public domain Only in the US. They still own the copyright for the rest of the world. (And then I think they can buy stuff not produced by themselves and that is not even public domain in the US). Bernhard R. Link -- "Never contain programs so few bugs, a

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ogram is still abiguous enough). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100416093639.ga7...@pcpool00.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de

Re: Distribution of media content together with GPLv2 code in one package?

2010-04-05 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ey must have smoked when writing this. (Though we usually accept the perl script unless it is consciously obfuscated). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: Distributing Debian derivative

2010-03-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
the same source package building multiple binaries, thus having more build-dependencies than needed for only building the core packages... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: Distributing Debian derivative

2010-03-22 Thread Bernhard R. Link
make sure you never loose those and give out written offers to give those source packages to everyone asking for those). That would suffice if everything in there would GPLv2. I guess except perhaps some advertise-clauses of some old BSD like licenses that should be the hardest part. H

Re: "re" module and old Python 1.6 (GPL incompatible) license?

2009-07-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
gh rights to relicense (thus make a grant in a LICENSE file but sadly 'forgot' to update individual files, which should be fixable easily) or there is noone with this right, then any claim in the LICENSE file to grant an additional license for this file would be known false thus not useable.

Re: Sapphire.cpp -- Gpl compatible? DFSG-free?

2009-04-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
Germany. Is there any citation for that? I've not yet seen any evidence or hint of an evidence why a German cannot give an maximal permissive license by talking about "putting it into public domain". Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-leg

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
s. If that is reasonable possible with the pdf, then it can be OK in my eyes. But as I said, I think in most cases that is simply not the case. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
me documentation. I concur the problem is less severe with documentation than with programs, as translating to text and reformating is often not that big a loss for documentation. But I think in most cases only a .pdf is still to hard to change to call it free. Bernhard R. Link --

Re: Missing licenses in upstream source files

2009-03-20 Thread Bernhard R. Link
h easier. Especially as code tends to hitch-hike in other programs. When you then have some code that every search engine shows you is copied from somewhere else, but you do not know where it origins from or if it actually has a free license, things get ugly... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhar

Re: Short copyright notice in script file

2009-03-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
goverment works. Those are public domain in the USA but one of the recent discussions showed they are not public domain outside. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: License issue on tiny Javascript fragment

2009-02-09 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Ken Arromdee [090209 05:39]: > On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > 1) The safe way: See what it does, describe someone else not knowing the > > code to write code doing this for you and use that code. > > Does that actually work? The description is a deriva

Re: License issue on tiny Javascript fragment

2009-02-07 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ter ask some lawyer to be sure if you want to go this way). > losing it would probably cause dataloss in use of the application. What happens if javascript is disabled? Please make sure the application also works then (or at the very minimum, fails gracefully). Hochachtungsvoll, Bern

Re: Using NASA Imagery

2009-01-20 Thread Bernhard R. Link
the US might actually be in the hands of some organisational unit of the USA). On the other hand, waiting till someone sues will not make the situation much easier (though if it really is only one copyright holder for everything, it could wait until it gets profiable...) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard

Re: Using NASA Imagery

2009-01-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
s class here under our rules, as far as the home state of the copyright holder would also protect this class of works". And I think with class of works it means classes like texts, paintings, radio broadcasts, software, ... and not classes like "made as work for the government"

Re: Using NASA Imagery

2009-01-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
for precluding the Government from making licenses for the use of its works abroad." and explain? Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Using NASA Imagery

2009-01-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
f what is copyrightable and makes no exception for things that would not have been protectable abroad. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: enabling transport and on storage encryption in bacula on debian build

2009-01-05 Thread Bernhard R. Link
on a single Bluray disc (or DVD/cdrom set), so everything in Debian accompanies everything else). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: AGPL and Debian

2008-12-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081201 13:37]: > * Bernhard R. Link: > > And you think that once there will be hundreds of such renamed projects > > of the same program which only have some patches that are not very > > usefull for most people because of having t

Re: AGPL and Debian

2008-11-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
he servers and the connections it runs on anyway to make some sense, then a license requiring the user of the software to "donate" $100 per copy to some free software charity would be acceptable for main? Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AGPL and Debian

2008-11-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ple have to always outsource the modification of their software so they are spared from having to offer access to the source? Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link [1] Let's assume every software is AGPL and the router has some webinterface where every user (and not just the one operating

Re: AGPL and Debian

2008-11-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
; In conclusion we will continue to access AGPL works into main subject to > the rest of the checks that we also normally perform. Sadly, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Public Domain for Germans

2008-11-04 Thread Bernhard R. Link
was English, but if people are able to make grants they did void by using the wrong words, then lawyers would start using the wrong words like people cross their fingers behind their back). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- "Never contain programs so few bugs, as when no debugging too

Re: Public Domain for Germans

2008-11-04 Thread Bernhard R. Link
s I do understand it. (Or to do so would just be impractical). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Public Domain for Germans

2008-11-04 Thread Bernhard R. Link
in." fails to do. Such a sentence makes it perfectly clear what you want to achieve. I should be legal in the US and I doubt a German court will tell someone they used the wrong magic words but interpret the intention. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- "Never contain programs

Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

2008-09-21 Thread Bernhard R. Link
t you can continue your service or business... And I doubt anyone is of the opinion that "you will be able to download it once this lawsuite is settled" is timeframe that is allowed... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

2008-09-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Davi Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080915 20:55]: > Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > Is it so hard for your to understand, that not being able to run > > modified services secretly is a restriction? > > Is it so hard for you understand, that not being able to distribute only

Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

2008-09-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
it so hard for your to understand, that not being able to run modified services secretly is a restriction? That having to make sure something can be downloaded from somewhere means costs? (And that enumerating services offering such a service without payment for another mean without any guarantee does

Re: Advice on wicd license

2008-09-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
recated much earlier than that, but I'm not from the US, so even mentioning "Berne Convention" sounds like an anachronism in my ears...) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

2008-09-08 Thread Bernhard R. Link
it. We did reject to give them our "dfsg-free" tag in the past, and I see no reason to label non-free things free in the future. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link [1] There is a German proverb "Das Gegenteil von gut ist gut gemeint", which translates roughly to &

Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

2008-09-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ystem, the source code is likely also to be small. But usually the memory on embedded systems is even smaller, so this is a very noticeable restriction. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

2008-08-31 Thread Bernhard R. Link
; not say that the whole source code is available. Telling them an URL of the original program and of a patch might perhaps be considered enough, but having to stop your service when the upstream service no longer runs or no longer contains the version is question[1], or only to be prepared to react

Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

2008-08-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
rights it gives you from those you would have without any copyright law a bit in a way to make sure other people's rights are more effective (by forbidding obscured source (e.g. binaries ;->)). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link [1] I know there are some theories that running is cop

Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

2008-08-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
. No, there is an very important difference. The GPL ensures that everyone is allowed all the things they would be if there was no license at all. And when people make modified variants, it stays this way. What AGPL does, is trying to limit how a program is allowed to run. That is an very important diff

Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

2008-08-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
uot;, which I don't think is completely unreasonable for > webapps and similar. Except that that running software is nothing that a sane copyright law should interfere with and nothing anything wanting to be called free license has a right to limit. Bernhard R. Link -- To UN

Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

2008-08-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
o run it without fullfilling some restrictions. I fail to see how anyone can consider that free. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

2008-08-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
k then only used software on other people systems without owning a copy of it? Where is there anything new here except the attempt to limit people's right to run their software for any purpose they see fit? Thanks in advance, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: source code written by monkey

2008-08-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ut I do not buy the theory that US law does not have them. §203 offers authors the possibility to terminate transfers and licenses, and in §106A allows and author (and explicitly not the copyright owner) of an "visual art" to prevent "distortion, mutilation, ...". They may be sma

Re: Bug#487218: games-thumbnails: unclear copyright concerns

2008-06-22 Thread Bernhard R. Link
w all the facts. Perhaps that's because lawyers make those rules). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Desert island test

2008-03-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Sean Kellogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080228 20:54]: > On Thursday 28 February 2008 11:27:15 am Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > * Sean Kellogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080228 20:01]: > > > On Thursday 28 February 2008 10:19:26 am Walter Landry wrote: > > > > You ju

Re: Desert island test

2008-02-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
n of source code. > 3. Allowing for modifications and derived works. The desert island test and the dissident test are just simple examples why "you may modify provided that you publish" is something very different from "you may modify". Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: The legality of wodim

2007-11-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* John Halton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071118 17:34]: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 01:45:24PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > * Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071117 23:55]: > > > In addition, according to other posters in this thread the term > > > "Urh

Re: The legality of wodim

2007-11-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
e differences, but most of them are just procedural. Like you cannot transfer copyright, but grant an exclusive license and so on and so forth... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Monkey's Audio License Agreement

2007-09-07 Thread Bernhard R. Link
nd all the other stuff that had some meaning many decades ago) people use like magic stickers out of fear they might be needed somewhere. As it looks like a contradiction it is note nice and better be removed. But I'd guess that this part is no real problem. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernh

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070603 05:49]: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 08:30:56PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > Count me in. I don't feel comfortable with choose-of-venue at all. > > This attitude is exactly why there's a disconnect between regular post

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
comfortable with choose-of-venue at all. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GPL v3 Draft 3- text and comments

2007-04-04 Thread Bernhard R. Link
Free software is to an large part idealism. Idealism and big problems in the theory don't fit well together. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-03-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
Though noone wants the napkin with the design written on it, or the editor contributing the formating by autoindenting to be distributed as part of the source. Nor the documents and standards (or even the reference book descriping your language and interfaces) read while writing it. Hochachtungsvoll,

Re: selling web application access

2006-09-22 Thread Bernhard R. Link
either you restrict people to run firewalls and filters before that to block that interface (which is again run restrictions) or you have just a massive restriction on freedom without any gain at all, which I refuse to call free. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link [1] sane in the meaning of

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-30 Thread Bernhard R. Link
one way, the judical system in the next might decide the other way) IANAL and so on, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please comment the license of vim manual and reference

2006-08-22 Thread Bernhard R. Link
on of the DFSG, which is totally different to how almost everyone else reads it. Thanks in advance for not replying to this post or any replies to it, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrtools - GPL code with CDDL build system

2006-03-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
omplete source # code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any # associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to # control compilation and installation of the executable. "scripts used to control compilation" is clearly what we currently refer to

Re: no longer a bug.

2006-03-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
e the title from all caps to something fitting to the rest of the titles in the table of contents). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gpl and hosted apps

2006-02-05 Thread Bernhard R. Link
evil. (Just as a hint: In some jurisdictions classical copyright law might not restrict running at all, so restrict it more than with no license at all, which could lead to click-wrap, restrictions to not give it to anyone not accepting the license, ...) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: Question on GPL compliance

2006-01-20 Thread Bernhard R. Link
lse. Do you want us to throw it into the recycle bin on your behalf instead of sending to you?". Though the lawyers and judges would surely find some problem with that, too. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-17 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060117 02:30]: > From: "Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Where did the "unless that component itself accompanies the > > executable" go? Is it somewhere else? > > It has been eliminated, intentionall

Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
right > to sublicense, at the time you distribute the covered work or in the > future, that would be infringed or violated by the covered work or any > reasonably contemplated use of the covered work. This is really a bit harsh. Especially that automatism. Why not disallow them to distri

Re: Proposed license for IETF Contributions

2005-12-09 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ry to be also added into a copyright license, but if it is wanted there, please add some escape route in there, so that one can tell about endorsement if there is any. Some often found clause it something like "without prior written auhtorization from ..." Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. L

Choice-of-venue and forking

2005-09-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
more in the jurisdiction choosen by the clause, what will happen? Will simply the normal rules apply, or will both have to travel to the remote place, will that even be able to open an case? Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: LGPL module linked with a GPL lib

2005-08-04 Thread Bernhard R. Link
u, but only make me feeling guilty of feeding the trolls when answering you. > Ignorance is bliss, I guess. Oh, all hail Micheal, the great martyr trying to open our eyes. Better this way? Sorry for writing, but I can only ignore a certain amount of such posts, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUB

Re: GPL & Possible Derivative Work

2005-06-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
scheme it to persuade to court you did not do so and lied and produced specifications and documentations and the like to disguise the facts. It is not even your word against someone else's word, but your word against someone else's wild guessings. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LPPL and source-less distribution

2005-06-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ury because the people carrying the banner of > reform behaved in a manner repugnant to those who understood that the > existing system, while flawed, was better than anarchy. Ah, so we are not only crack-smoking but also targeting anarchy? Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LPPL and source-less distribution

2005-06-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ployed by or otherwise related to Microsoft or any other large company selling non-free software? Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WASTE-dev-public] Do not package WASTE! UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE [Was: Re: Questions about waste licence and code.]

2005-05-20 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ence are exclusive licenses. And as these "morale rights" are considered part of human rights, they are not transferable and not bounding contracts about their use can be made. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ranting...

2005-03-09 Thread Bernhard R. Link
roviding the facts. And I do not know what you care about, but I will not call that freedom. Sorry, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Manpages licensed under GFDL without the license text included

2005-01-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ive any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange;" Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: Manpages licensed under GFDL without the license text included

2005-01-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ive any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange;" Hocha

Manpages licensed under GFDL without the license text included

2005-01-09 Thread Bernhard R. Link
s-ja: groff_tmac.5.gz groff.7.gz roff.7.gz Martin Waitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> oidentd: oidentd.conf.5.gz oidentd_masq.conf.5.gz oidentd.8.gz Sergio Rua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> partimage: partimage.1.gz partimage-server: partimaged.8.gz partimagedusers.5.gz Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Question about GFDL

2005-01-07 Thread Bernhard R. Link
notice saying this License applies |to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other |conditions whatsoever to those of this License. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link [1] As this specific info page is not yet in a package, though I do not doubt there will be s

Re: firmware status for eagle-usb-*

2004-10-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
machines quite common, we only need to add some code to libc that the library and the program are always executed on the other one of the processors. MfG, Bernhard R. Link

Re: firmware status for eagle-usb-*

2004-10-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
hat are forced by evil companpanies/beeings/desires to use non-free stuff[1].) MfG, Bernhard R. Link 1: and before anyone starts discussing about freeness: Do you have the source and all perimissions to do with it what we require for the word "free" in this context?

Re: Open Software License v2.1

2004-09-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ot to this specific code. You still have rights to use any other GPLed code, even from the same author. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.

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