Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * MJ Ray [Fri, Sep 15 2006, 10:53:03PM]: > Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would like to ask you to give us some days to find a peacefull > > solution without starting another flamewar. But, hey, you already did it > > by Cc'ing debian-le

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
r-later. > >> > >> (dvdrtools is in non-free solely because of the libscg "You may not" > >lines, which > >> are *also* present in cdrkit. Um there's some small problem there.) > > > >We need to make a choice right now: > > > >a

Re: RE : Re: Linux Magazin Germany, affecting Debian's image?!

2006-07-18 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Radu-Cristian FOTESCU [Tue, Jul 18 2006, 03:38:32AM]: > Too bad that the moist important GNU/Linux project and the most important > GNU/Linux community can't afford a good lawyer to explain you how to protect > your mark. > > Like Henning Makholm said, it's better not having me as a u

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-05 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Andrew Donnellan [Mon, Jun 05 2006, 07:13:29AM]: > >No. The conclusion is that sane Debian developers do recognize the > >problem and prepare an effective solution for it in silence. In > >the meantime wanna-be developers are allowed to troll on debian-devel > >list. They should just n

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-04 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Olaf van der Spek [Sun, Jun 04 2006, 02:31:00PM]: > >For those still playing, Olaf also isn't a Debian developer, doesn't > >maintain any packages, and isn't a new-maintainer applicant. He's made > >something like 5 posts to debian-legal, though, which I guess given Andrew > >Donnella

Re: cdrtools - GPL code with CDDL build system

2006-03-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Francesco Poli [Tue, Mar 21 2006, 12:18:37AM]: > > >> D-L v. JS, now that's a flame war I'd like to see ;-) > > >> > > >> Flaming aside, this is a non-issue. The source for cdrecord > > >contains > invariant sections (those obnoxious "warnings" about using > > >device > names), so it

Re: cdrtools - GPL code with CDDL build system

2006-03-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Anthony DeRobertis [Sun, Mar 19 2006, 11:42:58AM]: > Måns Rullgård wrote: > >Incidentally, this is what the dvdrtools folks have already done. > > > > > Ummm, come to think of it, why is dvdrtools in non-free while cdrecord > is in main? I am waiting for the answer of its maintainer

Re: cdrtools - GPL code with CDDL build system

2006-03-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Måns Rullgård [Sun, Mar 19 2006, 01:50:24AM]: > Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > These are the bits I'm referring to, from cdrecorc.c (sorry for the > long lines, but that's how it's written): > > ---BEGIN QUOTE--- > /* >* Begin restricted code for quality assura

Re: cdrtools - GPL code with CDDL build system

2006-03-18 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Alexander Terekhov [Sat, Mar 18 2006, 10:44:54PM]: > On 3/18/06, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > Now the question: how GPL-compatible should we consider this CDDL-like > > license? > > And what's the scale and gradati

cdrtools - GPL code with CDDL build system

2006-03-18 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hello debian-legal experts ;-), I need a bit support to clarify the issue with cdrtools' build system. Summary: a while ago, Joerg Schilling (upstream) replaced the copyright headers in the files of his build system inside of the cdrtools package with references to a CDDL license context. In #35

Re: changing upstream's MODULE_LICENSE string in module source

2006-02-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Alexander Terekhov [Sat, Feb 25 2006, 10:06:11PM]: > On 2/25/06, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > exist. Md raised his voice and he has a point, though a DMCA-threat in > > GPL context looks slightly absurd. > > Slightly?! > >

Re: changing upstream's MODULE_LICENSE string in module source

2006-02-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Kel Modderman [Sat, Feb 25 2006, 10:15:11AM]: > >Ehm... Sorry, would you please read the license you are talking about? > >You did not even copy it to the report. > > > > > > slmodem-2.9.9e-pre1a/COPYING > > > /* > * > *Copyright (c) 2001, Smart Link Ltd. > *All rights res

changing upstream's MODULE_LICENSE string in module source

2006-02-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Kel Modderman [Sat, Feb 25 2006, 12:46:42AM]: > Eduard Bloch wrote: > >I though I have written that above. > > > > > > Can you please clarify at all? What makes a license "clone" an > interchangeable license, especially since you are the o

Re: Bug#354216: upstream license patched in debian package

2006-02-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Kel Modderman [Fri, Feb 24 2006, 11:05:37PM]: > Package: sl-modem-source > Version: 2.9.9d+e-pre2-2 > |Severity: grave > > +sl-modem (2.9.9d+e-pre2-1) unstable; urgency=low > + > + * New upstream pre-release (closes: #327588) > + * added sv.po from Daniel Nylander (closes: #330436) >

IBM documentation license

2004-05-20 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hello, I have problems interpreting the following copyright statement which covers the documenting of the ICU library from IBM (which itself is free). IMHO it is non-free, however it is full of juristical english and may be acceptable for main if one can extract the relevant parts from all the bla

Re: [STATUS] SURVEY: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?

2003-08-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Branden Robinson [Sun, Aug 24 2003, 03:43:00AM]: > possible non- > developers developers developers > - > option 1 ("no")

Re: Intel's drivers license

2002-02-06 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Walter Landry wrote on Wed Feb 06, 2002 um 12:17:59PM: > > > This rather long paragraph means that I can't take out some code > > > covered by patents and use it to extend my favorite text editor. > > > That would count as an additional restriction, and thus > > > GPL-incompatible. Okay

Intel's drivers license

2002-02-05 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hello, recently I was contacted by an Intel employee, asking to provide support for their new e1000 Gigabit Adapters in Debian Linux. Implementation is not a problem since I do already maintain some kernel-modules packages and kernel-patch-ethernet-drivers package. But the license is a bit vague (

Re: Firmware files - GPL compliant?

2001-09-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Walter Landry wrote on Mon Sep 24, 2001 um 10:44:03AM: > > But how does this comply with the GPL? As far as I can see, the kernel > > guys have been doing this for a while (see below) and the kernel is > > still GPLed. > > This was a point of some contention a few months ago. Look at t

Re: Firmware files - GPL compliant?

2001-09-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Eduard Bloch wrote on Fri Sep 21, 2001 um 05:24:10PM: > But how does this comply with the GPL? As far as I can see, the kernel > guys have been doing this for a while (see below) and the kernel is > still GPLed. Okay, so if nobody has hints for me, I will upload to main soon

Firmware files - GPL compliant?

2001-09-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
I am going to package the DVB driver for Siemens-based cards. Unfortunately, this cards does not have a ROM onboard so the firmware must be loaded using the driver. The company which created the firmware has released their Linux drivers under the GPL and included the binary firmware files in the p

okay for non-free?

2001-06-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hi, could anyone comment the attached license? Is it suitable for non-free, or even contrib? -- UNACE-SOURCE v1.2b (extract-util) -- the source may be distributed and used, but I,Marcel Lemke, retain ownership of the copyrights to the source. --- WWW: http:/

Re: license for a mix of free sw + propritary stuff

2001-04-30 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include David Starner wrote on Sun Apr 29, 2001 um 11:03:48PM: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:59:02PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > epsUtils > > > > > > The GPL apply wit the following ammendment. > > In what way does the GPL apply? The author apparen

license for a mix of free sw + propritary stuff

2001-04-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
June 1991 [...] Gr{us,eeting}s, Eduard. -- Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; HP: http://eduard.bloch.com/edecosi 0xEDF008C5(GnuPG): E6EB 98E2 B885 8FF0 6C04 5C1D E106 481E EDF0 08C5 ** No, really: Outlook Express is a

Re: upx under GPL

2001-03-11 Thread Eduard Bloch
Anyways, yesterday, I uploaded an updated version to incoming under the same license. Trying again... Gr{us,eeting}s, Eduard. -- Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; HP: http://eduard.bloch.com/edecosi 0xEDF008C5(GnuPG): E6EB 98E2 B885 8FF0 6C04 5C1D E106 481E EDF0 08C5 pgpc8G9appsNi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: upx under GPL

2001-03-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
table for Debian main. MfG, Eduard. -- ======== Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; HP: http://eduard.bloch.com/edecosi 0xEDF008C5(GnuPG): E6EB 98E2 B885 8FF0 6C04 5C1D E106 481E EDF0 08C5 ** #exclude

upx under GPL

2001-03-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
like this solution and preffer the current license which is just less restrictive. Gr{us,eeting}s, Eduard. -- ======== Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; HP: http://eduard.bloch.com/edecosi 0xEDF008C5(GnuPG): E6EB 98E2 B885 8FF0 6C0