question about leaving lzw and unknown-license code in source

2002-11-11 Thread Roland Marcus Rutschmann
Hi, I am using xmedcon (http://xmedcon.sourceforge.net/) and did my first debian package with that. This package should be sponsored to become official soon. The package is generally gpl but has to parts with problems in it. 1) Code to create gif-files (with lzw compression). This is part of

Re: question about leaving lzw and unknown-license code in source

2002-11-11 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Roland! You wrote: Is there any way for xmedcon to become official without taking those parts mentioned above out of the source code (which neither the upstream author nor me would find very attractive). Nope. We cannot distribute software that doesn't have a proper license (the

Re: question about leaving lzw and unknown-license code in source

2002-11-11 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Monday, November 11, 2002, at 11:59 AM, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: Nope. We cannot distribute software that doesn't have a proper license (the Siemens stuff) or is affected by patents (the lzw stuff). Fortunately, the lzw patent expires this coming June.

Re: Aspell-en license Once again.

2002-11-11 Thread Florian Weimer
Joe Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, this would be a derivative work of the Usenet postings, which are copyright their authors. And what if you do this someplace where this is not the case, according to local law?