Bug#256332: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-05-04 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, sorry for not responding earlier. * Mike Olson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060410 03:51]: This is going to be some work for me. Oracle's legal department has been very helpful on our open source requests so far, but it's a large team and is not familiar with this issue yet. I'll need to find,

Bug#256332: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-04-25 Thread dann frazier
(I believe the DPL has changed since my last request, so I'm resending this request for assistance; I'm also adding debian-release to the CC list as this concerns a potential stable update and a potential pre-etch migration, and the DB maintenance team). hey AJ, We are in need of some

Bug#256332: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-04-19 Thread MJ Ray
dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would classify this as a legal/licensing issue, not a documentation issue. Aren't most documentation licensing bugs sarge-ignore? -- MJR/slef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#256332: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-04-19 Thread dann frazier
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 03:04:30PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would classify this as a legal/licensing issue, not a documentation issue. Aren't most documentation licensing bugs sarge-ignore? I thought that was a GFDL-specific exception; but I'm not positive.

Bug#256332: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-04-17 Thread dann frazier
(Top posting to continue current flow) I've added the DPL to the CC list. aj: do you have an opinion here, or do you think its worth delegating this decision to someone? See #256332 and the debian-legal archive for background. On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:46:02PM +1000, Andrew Donnellan

Bug#256332: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-04-17 Thread dann frazier
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 10:37:40AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Though it maybe feasible to drop older db versions from the next release (I do not know if such plans exist), I believe we would still need to resolve this in an update to the current stable release

Bug#256332: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-04-10 Thread Andrew Donnellan
Ask the new DPL (aj) I guess. andrew On 4/10/06, Mike Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dann wrote: Thank you for your offer. I think a relicensing would be the cleanest approach. Note that I am a Debian Developer, but I do not speak for the db packaging, release, or legal teams. I

Bug#256332: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-04-09 Thread Mike Olson
Dann wrote: Thank you for your offer. I think a relicensing would be the cleanest approach. Note that I am a Debian Developer, but I do not speak for the db packaging, release, or legal teams. I hope that they'll jump in if they are in disagreement with any of the statements I've made

Bug#256332: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-04-07 Thread MJ Ray
dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Though it maybe feasible to drop older db versions from the next release (I do not know if such plans exist), I believe we would still need to resolve this in an update to the current stable release (sarge). Aren't documentation bugs sarge-ignore? I'm not sure

Bug#256332: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-04-06 Thread Mike Olson
Sleepycat didn't, and Oracle doesn't, have any issue with the inclusion of the documentation with Debian, for any current or past release. The Debian team raised an issue of compatibility. In addressing it, we agreed to use the identical license for software and documentation. We didn't

Bug#256332: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-04-06 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:37:11AM -0700, Mike Olson wrote: Sleepycat didn't, and Oracle doesn't, have any issue with the inclusion of the documentation with Debian, for any current or past release. The Debian team raised an issue of compatibility. In addressing it, we agreed to use the

Bug#256332: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-04-06 Thread Mike Olson
dann frazier wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:37:11AM -0700, Mike Olson wrote: Sleepycat didn't, and Oracle doesn't, have any issue with the inclusion of the documentation with Debian, for any current or past release. The Debian team raised an issue of compatibility. In addressing it, we

Bug#256332: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-04-06 Thread dann frazier
debian-legal folks: please skim #256332 for history. On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:13:30AM -0700, Mike Olson wrote: If you're going to rev the packages in any case, I'd strongly recommend simply moving to the 4.3 (or better, 4.4) release. We would expect no functional problems, you'd get all the

Bug#256332: [Pkg-db-devel] Bug#256332: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-04-06 Thread Clint Adams
Just some clarification.. Though it maybe feasible to drop older db versions from the next release (I do not know if such plans exist), I believe we would still need to resolve this in an update to the current stable release (sarge). I think as soon as the GNOME2 gnucash shows up in

Bug#256332: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-04-05 Thread dann frazier
hey Mike, I'm seeking explicit clarification on the licensing of the documentation in Debian's db3 and db4.2 packages. Can you clarify your comments in #256332[1] with respect to these older releases? Specifically, I'm interested to know whether the referenced documentation in these older