Re: LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0 - public domain

2012-10-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 26 21:37, David Sastre Medina wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:26:59PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: On 10/25/2012 11:49 AM, Jari Aalto wrote: Neither OSI, nor FSF recommend use of public domain for Open Source software. I think you should total up the list of recommendations

Re: LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0 - public domain

2012-10-27 Thread Jari Aalto
On 2012-10-27 12:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote: | When I first decided to use CC0, I admitedly didn't do too much of a | research. | | I really don't mind to move to any of BSD-2 or GPLv3 if needed, but I | definitely don't want to see my name in each and every one of the | files, because I'm

Re: LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0 - public domain

2012-10-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 27 16:46, Jari Aalto wrote: On 2012-10-27 12:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote: | The setup files in Fedora don't have such a header either. The only | copyright note is this text in /usr/share/doc/setup${vers}/COPYING: | | Setup package is public domain. | | You are free to use, copy,

Re: LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0 - public domain

2012-10-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 26 02:27, Jari Aalto wrote: 2012-10-26 00:20 David Sastre Medina On 2012-10-25 23:20, David Sastre Medina wrote: | https://github.com/dsastrem/base-files.git | | Most probably, a wrong assumption on my side. No worries, it caught my attention as it was an unusual choice,

base-file: patches ORIGINAL_PATH, PS1, LC_ALL (was LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0)

2012-10-26 Thread Jari Aalto
2012-10-26 08:57 Achim Gratz stromeko-i47jitek...@public.gmane.org: | David Sastre Medina writes: | | The only outstanding issue I can think of right now, would be | to revert this change: | | -PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:${PATH} | +ORIGINAL_PATH=${PATH} | +PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin | |

Re: LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0 - public domain

2012-10-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 26 09:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 26 02:27, Jari Aalto wrote: 2012-10-26 00:20 David Sastre Medina On 2012-10-25 23:20, David Sastre Medina wrote: | https://github.com/dsastrem/base-files.git | | Most probably, a wrong assumption on my side. No worries, it caught

Re: LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0 - public domain

2012-10-26 Thread Jari Aalto
On 2012-10-26 09:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote: | | Despite all the arguments, here's a question: If PD is such a bad idea, | why is Fedora's setup package, which provides much the same service | as our base-files package, PD licensed as well? Perhaps it was done and forgotten. World is diferent

Re: LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0 - public domain

2012-10-26 Thread Warren Young
On 10/25/2012 11:49 AM, Jari Aalto wrote: Neither OSI, nor FSF recommend use of public domain for Open Source software. I think you should total up the list of recommendations the FSF has made over the years, and decide if you really want to be constrained use only things that make FSF

Re: LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0 - public domain

2012-10-26 Thread David Sastre Medina
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:26:59PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: On 10/25/2012 11:49 AM, Jari Aalto wrote: Neither OSI, nor FSF recommend use of public domain for Open Source software. I think you should total up the list of recommendations the FSF has made over the years, and decide if you

LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0

2012-10-25 Thread Jari Aalto
According to: git clone git://github.com/dsastrem/base-files.git base-files.git May files are put out using CC0 license[1]. I'm wondering this as it is to my understanding recommended only for data (images, pure data files, databases etc.), or for code snippets that accompany documentation

Re: LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0

2012-10-25 Thread Warren Young
On 10/25/2012 12:43 AM, Jari Aalto wrote: According to: git clone git://github.com/dsastrem/base-files.git base-files.git May files are put out using CC0 license[1]. I'm wondering this as it is to my understanding recommended only for data (images, pure data files, databases etc.), or

Re: LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0 - public domain

2012-10-25 Thread Jari Aalto
2012-10-25 17:17 Warren Young 2012-10-25 17:17 Warren Young | On 10/25/2012 12:43 AM, Jari Aalto wrote: | | According to: | | git clone git://github.com/dsastrem/base-files.git base-files.git | | | May files are put out using CC0 license[1]. I'm wondering this as it is | to my

Re: LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0 - public domain

2012-10-25 Thread David Sastre Medina
https://github.com/dsastrem/base-files.git Most probably, a wrong assumption on my side. I am not a lawyer, and most of this parlance goes far beyond my understanding. I wouldn't mean any harm whatsoever to this project, or would I purposedly introduced a legal flaw by using the Public Domain

Re: LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0 - public domain

2012-10-25 Thread Jari Aalto
2012-10-26 00:20 David Sastre Medina On 2012-10-25 23:20, David Sastre Medina wrote: | https://github.com/dsastrem/base-files.git | | Most probably, a wrong assumption on my side. No worries, it caught my attention as it was an unusual choice, considering the existing licencing policy in Open

Re: LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0 - public domain

2012-10-25 Thread Achim Gratz
David Sastre Medina writes: The only outstanding issue I can think of right now, would be to revert this change: -PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:${PATH} +ORIGINAL_PATH=${PATH} +PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin The details about this issue can be found here: