Bug#919356: Fw: Bug#919356: dwarves-dfsg: Copyright/licensing is unclear

2019-01-21 Thread MJ Ray
Missed the bug off the CC for this. Sorry. Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 13:34:13 + From: MJ Ray To: debian-le...@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#919356: dwarves-dfsg: Copyright/licensing is unclear Domenico Andreoli skribis: > the situation of dwarves-d

Bug#637622: config file modifiable by users in /var/lib/dtc

2012-06-14 Thread MJ Ray
for users to dismiss or attackers to spoof. Could that one be moved to /etc/dtc, please? Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk

Bug#388141: Handling the copyright mess of the website

2012-01-04 Thread MJ Ray
for material on the website if asked, so long as the previous licence(s) also held. Hope that informs, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk

Bug#521448: gammu: gnapplet.sis requires packages which are not in our archive (was: distributing precompiled binaries)

2009-03-30 Thread MJ Ray
clone 521448 -1 retitle -1 p3nfs: applet build requires packages which are not in debian stop Michal Čihař ni...@debian.org wrote: MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop napsal(a): This email is to reopen bug 521448. As I understand the close message, while gammu's source does contain source code

Bug#521448: gammu: gnapplet.sis requires packages which are not in our archive (was: distributing precompiled binaries)

2009-03-29 Thread MJ Ray
+0100 MJ Ray wrote: Francesco Poli wrote: It seems to me that bug #521448 is an attempt to report this [...] Reopen and retitle? [...] Could you please do that? [...] Done. Thanks for your time and hope this isn't too awkward to fix. Regards, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http

Bug#509287: Please give opinion about Bug#509287: afio: license is non-free

2008-12-22 Thread MJ Ray
Erik Schanze schan...@gmx.de wrote: What should I do? Have I move afio to non-free? Thank you for bringing this question to the list - I was going to do so, but had not found time yet. More seriously, the Lachman Associates licence doesn't give any permission to modify the software, does it?

Bug#506977: FPC: copyright infringement in pre 2.2.2 sources

2008-11-26 Thread MJ Ray
Paul Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Could you help by explaining what needs to be done (if anything) with the current old-stable, stable and testing sources? It looks like we should take this seriously, but I fear this is slightly above my head. Especially the fact that upstream removed

Bug#506042: AGPL freeness bugs until #495721 is resolved

2008-11-25 Thread MJ Ray
Just rounding off a few loose edges. Stopping for reasons explained near the end:- Thomas Viehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] MJ Ray wrote: For example, a PHPBB service page is about 20k, while PHPBB source is 2.19MiB. You have a mighty uninteresting forum if people only look

Bug#506609: axyl: code copy of Xinha ships the ImageManager plugin released under the PHP 2.02 licence

2008-11-25 Thread MJ Ray
Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I repeatedly stated my opinion on the PHP license and its unfixed issues: I personally think that the PHP License (up to version 3.01), fails to meet the DFSG, even for PHP itself! However I failed to gain consensus on debian-legal about the

Bug#506042: AGPL freeness bugs until #495721 is resolved

2008-11-24 Thread MJ Ray
. As it was not a mistake, this bug is not serious, but the desire for some users to avoid unlimited download costs remains, so is it OK with you if I reopen this bug but downgrade it to wishlist? Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http

Bug#506042: AGPL freeness bugs until #495721 is resolved

2008-11-24 Thread MJ Ray
Thomas Viehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-11-24 15:06:03.00 MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As it was not a mistake, this bug is not serious, but the desire for some users to avoid unlimited download costs remains, so is it OK with you if I reopen this bug but downgrade

Bug#506042: AGPL freeness bugs until #495721 is resolved

2008-11-24 Thread MJ Ray
Thomas Viehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray wrote: I thank you for your personal view (which will be useful for software where you are a licensor), but this is essentially the same anecdotal advocacy which has been covered in previous discussions about AGPLv3. Well, you should not have

Bug#506042: yocto-reader: infinite download liability for public use

2008-11-17 Thread MJ Ray
Source: yocto-reader Version: 0.9.3 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 yocto-reader is under the AGPLv3 with no clarifications. Clause 13 of the AGPLv3 requires any hosting user to provide access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge to every visitor to the

Bug#496346: openarena: contains lcc, which is not free software

2008-08-26 Thread MJ Ray
Peter De Wachter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenArena contains a copy of the lcc compiler in the code/tools/lcc directory, which does not seem free software as it does not allow commercial distribution. I agree. The early parts make it look like a BSD-style licence, but the license part

Bug#388141: Discussions elsewhere

2008-03-12 Thread MJ Ray
These two bugs are being discussed by DPL candidates after http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2008/03/msg00065.html and the current DPL has been asked the current status by an SPI board member, as reported in http://lists.spi-inc.org/pipermail/spi-general/2008-March/002538.html One candidate's

Bug#389464: gnome-themes-extras: non-free Firefox icon included

2006-09-28 Thread MJ Ray
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only issue here is a trademark one, but as the icon is used to reference firefox itself, I'd have guessed it is allowed. I'm CCing debian-legal, as this has been discussed to death and I guess someone will have more clues than myself. I think I

Bug#388571: [Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#388571: awstats: Non-free Firefox icon included

2006-09-23 Thread MJ Ray
Charles Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anyone comment on whether or not it is problematic for us to distribute a tiny icon of Firefox's logo? [...] IIRC we have no current copyright permission for it, even in the browser sources. So, yes, a problem. Can you ask Mozilla.org whether the logo is

Bug#379982: Misuse of alternatives

2006-07-30 Thread MJ Ray
Christian Aichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:06:08AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Christian Aichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since that violates policy, the removal of /usr/bin/git As explained, I do not see why this violates policy, as the git shell script offers

Bug#379982: Misuse of alternatives

2006-07-28 Thread MJ Ray
Christian Aichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since that violates policy, the removal of /usr/bin/git As explained, I do not see why this violates policy, as the git shell script offers the git-core functionality. What other way is there for a neat transition for stable users? is documented in

Bug#379982: Misuse of alternatives

2006-07-26 Thread MJ Ray
Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoted from policy: Two different packages must not install programs with different functionality but with the same filenames. (The case of two programs having the same functionality but different implementations is handled via alternatives or [...] I think

Bug#335278: Unknown license bits and public domain

2006-06-28 Thread MJ Ray
George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked debian-legal: Unfortunately John L Allen is unreachible to clarify the license terms of his piece of code [3]. Now, the question is: how long we should wait for nobody claim a copyright for the code to have it in Public Domain ? [...] 70 years

Bug#238245: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-21 Thread MJ Ray
Javier =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fern=E1ndez-Sanguino_Pe=F1a?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] a) a proper license should be decided for the website. I suggest using a BSD-style license. The attached license is such a license. I suggest using a BSD-style licence as default, but the attached one is not one. Do

Bug#323099: no longer a bug.

2006-03-13 Thread MJ Ray
Mike O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] [see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL ]. That URL says that you can modify the GPL to create your own license, then release your software under that license, just don't call it GPL anymore. It doesn't say, you can take some work that

Bug#323099: no longer a bug.

2006-03-12 Thread MJ Ray
Mike O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only things the documentation license holds as invariant are the GPL and the GFDL themselves, and Debian already accepts those as being invariant, this documentation should no longer be considered non-free in light of GR-2006-01. But becuase of this, I'm

Bug#339845: rsnapshot: submitter uncontactable

2006-01-24 Thread MJ Ray
The request for more information was returned with the message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] host lookup did not complete: retry timeout exceeded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#339845: rsnapshot: Request for more information. Maybe unreproducible.

2006-01-23 Thread MJ Ray
help, -- MJ Ray - personal email, see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Work: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ irc.oftc.net/slef Jabber/SIP ask -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#339837: http://www.debian.org/security/ seriously misleading about security infrastructure performance

2005-11-19 Thread MJ Ray
the statistic is questionable, so there should be verification/substantiation of the statistic, but I don't know whether it's right or wrong. I think it's prejudging things to delete the first paragraph as suggested. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray - personal email, see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Work

Bug#238245: Debian website's copyright and license suggestions?

2005-10-17 Thread MJ Ray
this issue to SPI's secretarys attention, but SPI board would appreciate some suggestion what they should decide about license change. I see it will be discussed at the board meeting at http://www.spi-inc.org/secretary/agenda/2005-10-18.html Best wishes, -- MJ Ray (slef), Lynn, England, to email

Bug#313615: Further information on the GPL for an Apache module

2005-06-15 Thread MJ Ray
like those may have similar bugs. A common solution seems to be to get permission to link to an APL'd work as an exception. Upstream looks alive. If they're willing, it may be the simplest fix. libapache2-mod-ldap-userdir has an exception for OpenSSL already. Good luck! -- MJ Ray (slef), K. Lynn

Bug#310645: drscheme - dependency on mzscheme version

2005-05-27 Thread MJ Ray
-on-already-installed-mz. What's the status of this bug? I can't see surviving problems, but I don't have an system to test this upgrade on (yet). -- MJ Ray (slef), K. Lynn, England, email see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#309257: libpano12: patent problems

2005-05-16 Thread MJ Ray
Read more about the iPIX vs Dersch from FFII at http://swpat.ffii.org/pikta/xrani/ipix/ The second link (contains patent titles) suggests that there is clear prior art. Interactive Pictures appear to be a tn.us corporation - does anyone nearby know whether any regulations forbid so-called patent

Bug#289856: mdnsresponder: Wrong license

2005-01-21 Thread MJ Ray
Marco wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] the APSL 2.0 is not, in the opinion of many (and AFAICT, according to the consensus of the debian-legal mailing list), a free license under the Where many in this context should be read as an handful of people on the debian-legal mailing list who