FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread Joey Hess
Please let me know what you think. - Forwarded message from Dave Cinege [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Dave Cinege [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 02:50:19 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Analog licence violates DFSG Reply-To: [EMAIL

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 11:58:59PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Please let me know what you think. - Forwarded message from Dave Cinege [EMAIL PROTECTED] - The Analog licence states: 1.Any action which is illegal under international or local law is forbidden by this licence. Any such

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote: 1.Any action which is illegal under international or local law is forbidden by this licence. Any such action is the sole responsibility of the person committing the action. This provision of the licence blatently violates section 6 of the DFSG which

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread Joey Hess
David Starner wrote: On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 11:58:59PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Please let me know what you think. - Forwarded message from Dave Cinege [EMAIL PROTECTED] - The Analog licence states: 1.Any action which is illegal under international or local law is

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Behlendorf wrote: On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote: 1.Any action which is illegal under international or local law is forbidden by this licence. Any such action is the sole responsibility of the person committing the action. This provision of the licence blatently violates

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread David Starner
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:16:08AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Brian Behlendorf wrote: On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote: 1.Any action which is illegal under international or local law is forbidden by this licence. Any such action is the sole responsibility of the person committing

Re: Squeak License DFSG free?

2000-09-13 Thread Marcus Denker
Hi! Thanks for your help. The font-issue will be resolved soon. And it seems to be possible that the license will be changed after this is done. I hope it will then be possible for Squeak to be real Free Software In the meantime Squeak has to be part of non-free. thanks again,

Re: Python 1.6 license DFSG free ?

2000-09-13 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
I'd be interested to know what this means: 7. This License Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in all respects by the law of the State of Virginia, excluding conflict of law provisions. If someone in Albania, say, is violating the licence, and CNRI wants to sue them in

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote: Please let me know what you think. - Forwarded message from Dave Cinege [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 1.Any action which is illegal under international or local law is forbidden by this licence. Any such action is the sole responsibility of the person

Re: GPL question

2000-09-13 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
Samuel Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: However, if your printing server component is a library and is GPLed, then every work linked to it has to be GPLed (or have an even less restrictive license). Also, is it relevant that at the moment the whole app. comes on a single CD? This is

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Brian Behlendorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote: 1.Any action which is illegal under international or local law is forbidden by this licence. Any such action is the sole responsibility of the person committing the action. This provision of the licence

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] We've had arguments over export regulations, and the general consensus is that they aren't DFSG free, so this isn't either. I don't follow. This is not an export restriction. No, but the problem with export restriction clauses is not that they concern

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 11:58:59PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: 1.Any action which is illegal under international or local law is forbidden by this licence. Any such action is the sole responsibility of the person committing the action. Hmm.. and what about actions which are illegal even though the

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread Don Marti
begin Bernhard R. Link quotation of Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:34:05AM +0200: First of all I see this as a moot point, as an illigal action is illegal. By saying that you behave illegal, when you do something illegal is no discrimination in my eyes but should be seen as only beeing a reiminder.

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
On 13 Sep 2000, Henning Makholm wrote: It is not. Consider this scenario: the author of the software might sue A for breach of contract, even though A is outside of the jurisdiction of the local laws that he broke originally. I think this scenario leads to an very gray area. Where does

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Don Marti wrote: First of all, crime, especially organized crime, is a Field of Endeavor. Second, some people who are considered criminals in one country are freedom fighters in another country. I do not think that theese are so valid points. Third, [..] Not even

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Bernhard R. Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 13 Sep 2000, Henning Makholm wrote: It is not. Consider this scenario: the author of the software might sue A for breach of contract, even though A is outside of the jurisdiction of the local laws that he broke originally. I think this

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread David Starner
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 06:14:59PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Don Marti wrote: First of all, crime, especially organized crime, is a Field of Endeavor. Second, some people who are considered criminals in one country are freedom fighters in another country. I do

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 06:11:15PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: I think this scenario leads to an very gray area. Where does the author want to sue him? As I understand law, A broke only the copyright laws of his evil country. (As you said before: International agreements are not law but are

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote: Please let me know what you think. I think we have had this debate before :} I don't remember what the final result was, but most agreed that it is silly to place restrictions on a license agreement that are already implied by local law, as they are really

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, David Starner wrote: The DFSG is designed to be an objective standard. Not really, it's way too broad for that. If it were completely objective there'd be no debate about whether a given license violated it or not. Anyway, if this is acceptable, then can someone put in a

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread David Starner
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:07:22PM -0700, Brian Behlendorf wrote: On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, David Starner wrote: The DFSG is designed to be an objective standard. Not really, it's way too broad for that. If it were completely objective there'd be no debate about whether a given license

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread John Galt
This has always been a stone in my craw: why should a keep it legal clause make it non DFSG free? Contracts (licensing agreements) may not cover illegal actions: a contract to perform an arson is null and void regardless of the wording of the contract. So logically, a contract that has a keep

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 02:10:52PM -0600, John Galt wrote: This has always been a stone in my craw: why should a keep it legal clause make it non DFSG free? Keep it legal is not the clause being discussed. Instead, it's 1.Any action which is illegal under international or local law is

RE: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread Eric Sherrill
IMHO the problems with legality clauses in contracts can be summarized in several points: (Disclaimer - this isn't legal advice, get yer own durn lawyer, yadda yadda yadda. See below.) 1. Not all countries adhere to the common law (mostly just the UK its former colonies, like US, Canada,

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread John Galt
By my argument, it's redundant, not meaningless. The action which is illegal voids the contract, both in common law and explicitly by this particular contract clause. Basically, it all boils down to: where this contract fails, ALL contracts fail, and if this is not the case, the contract is

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread Steve M Bibayoff
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote: 1.Any action which is illegal under international or local law is forbidden by this licence. Any such action is the sole responsibility of the person committing the action. I jaywalked yesterday in CA, so did I now break the licence agreement? I jaywalked