GPL flaw?

2003-11-06 Thread Mark Schreiber
I have a small quibble with the GPL on a point that seems that it could be improved, unless, of course, my interpreation is incorrect. The existing license seems to produce undesireable behavior in a particular (admittedly, unusual) case. Let us suppose that a company (Small Company) produces a

Re: GPL flaw?

2003-11-06 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
Mark Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a small quibble with the GPL on a point that seems that it could be improved, unless, of course, my interpreation is incorrect. The existing license seems to produce undesireable behavior in a particular (admittedly, unusual) case. You are

Re: GPL flaw?

2003-11-06 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Mark Schreiber said on Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 12:15:33PM -0500,: Hmm ... You sound a lot like the clueless lawyers for SCO. His heirs refuse to GPL-license the Fast List Interpreter package. Thus, Fast Lisp Interpreter is not GPLed. Not a problem. If RMS released it under the GPL license.

Re: GPL flaw?

2003-11-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: Mark Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Normally, this is not a problem -- a company may remove offending code and do a re-release. However, Small Company no longer controls Smart Writer. Macrosoft is in charge. You are confused about several

Adding copyright holders to an MIT-like license

2003-11-06 Thread Sam Hocevar
I was packaging elk for Debian, and also became new upstream because it was unmaintained. I wonder what I should do with the license (atta- ched to this message, even if not really necessary). It is an MIT-like license, and there is no real permission to modify it, but if I am a new copyright

please remove

2003-11-06 Thread Azhar Abdul-Quader
Please remove this page http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200309/msg00496.html

Re: please remove

2003-11-06 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003, at 22:08 -0500, Azhar Abdul-Quader wrote: Please remove this page http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200309/msg004 96.html I'd say you are out of luck. You *might* be able to talk to the mailing-list managers, but I doubt they would really care.