Bug#431883: dcraw license does not give permission to distribute modified versions or source alongside

2007-09-14 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Friday 14 September 2007 10:38:40 Steve King wrote: > This is David Coffin's proposed license text for the next version of > dcraw: No license is required to download and use dcraw.c. However, to > lawfully redistribute dcraw, you must either (a) offer, at no extra > charge, full source code* f

Bug#431883: dcraw license does not give permission to distribute modified versions or source alongside

2007-09-14 Thread Steve King
This is David Coffin's proposed license text for the next version of dcraw: No license is required to download and use dcraw.c. However, to lawfully redistribute dcraw, you must either (a) offer, at no extra charge, full source code* for all executable files containing RESTRICTED func

Bug#431883: dcraw license does not give permission to distribute modified versions or source alongside

2007-09-02 Thread Patrice Vetsel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Extract for my searches on problem with package including dcraw. Silently others programs have by-passed this problem as digikam / ufraw / rawstudio. Can authors/maintainers tell us which version of dcraw is oncluded ? Or confirm that : ufraw 0.11 us

Bug#431883: dcraw license does not give permission to distribute modified versions or source alongside

2007-07-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 05, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >*If you have not modified dcraw.c in any way, a link to my >homepage qualifies as "full source code". > >$Revision: 1.387 $ >$Date: 2007/06/24 00:18:52 $ > */ > > > You'll notice that we have no permission to distribute modif

Bug#431883: dcraw license does not give permission to distribute modified versions or source alongside

2007-07-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 06, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's what the letter of the license says. Because of that, the > licensor could, at his or her option, choose to interpret the license > this way. Licensors can do this anyway even for licenses which we consider well understood and with no ambi

Bug#431883: dcraw license does not give permission to distribute modified versions or source alongside

2007-07-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 03:45:29AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jul 2007, Steve King wrote: > > > You'll notice that we have no permission to distribute modified > > > versions of dcraw.c as required by the DFSG. > > I don't agree with you here. It seems to me that we do have > > permis

Bug#431883: dcraw license does not give permission to distribute modified versions or source alongside

2007-07-06 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 03:45:29 -0700 Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jul 2007, Steve King wrote: > > > You'll notice that we have no permission to distribute modified > > > versions of dcraw.c as required by the DFSG. > > > > I don't agree with you here. It seems to me that we do have > > permissi

Bug#431883: dcraw license does not give permission to distribute modified versions or source alongside

2007-07-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 06 Jul 2007, Steve King wrote: > > You'll notice that we have no permission to distribute modified > > versions of dcraw.c as required by the DFSG. > > I don't agree with you here. It seems to me that we do have > permission to distribute modified versions, provided source is > included.

Bug#431883: dcraw license does not give permission to distribute modified versions or source alongside

2007-07-06 Thread Steve King
> Package: dcraw > Version: 7.02-1 > Severity: serious > > On Thu, 05 Jul 2007, Steve King wrote: >> However I would appreciate it if the assembled masses of legal >> experts could confirm that they agree that this is the case. > > There's actually an even more fundamental problem with dcraw.c: > >

Bug#431883: dcraw license does not give permission to distribute modified versions or source alongside

2007-07-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 05 Jul 2007, Steve King wrote: > The license against which you have raised a bug is not the one that covers > the version that is currently part of debian. The appropriate license is > here: Right, but the issues present in the current version of the license are also present in the versi

Bug#431883: dcraw license does not give permission to distribute modified versions or source alongside

2007-07-05 Thread Steve King
Hi Don, The license against which you have raised a bug is not the one that covers the version that is currently part of debian. The appropriate license is here: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/d/dcraw/dcraw_8.39-1/dcraw.copyright You should also probably consider the text on

Bug#431883: dcraw license does not give permission to distribute modified versions or source alongside

2007-07-05 Thread Don Armstrong
Package: dcraw Version: 7.02-1 Severity: serious On Thu, 05 Jul 2007, Steve King wrote: > However I would appreciate it if the assembled masses of legal > experts could confirm that they agree that this is the case. There's actually an even more fundamental problem with dcraw.c: /* dcraw.c --