Re: SRFI copyright license

2003-12-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: > The license clearly allows you to derive works, as long as you do not > change the SRFI itself. The above sentence is in conflict with itself. A deriviative work must necessarily change the SRFI itself. The end product might not be an SRFI anymore,

Re: popular swirl...

2003-12-30 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Di, den 30.12.2003 schrieb Ben Reser um 23:35: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:28:10PM +0100, Jörgen Hägg wrote: > > Somehow the swirl on this page seems familiar... :-) > > http://www.elektrostore.com/ > Hell that's not just familiar that's a blatent rip. Now what can we do about it? Is ther

Re: popular swirl...

2003-12-30 Thread Ben Reser
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 06:04:01PM -0500, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: > This has come up before. SPI was asked to look into the trademark > violation involved. IIRC, the proprietor of elektrostore was contacted > and dismissed the complaint -- saying there wasn't any proof Debian had > come up with

Re: popular swirl...

2003-12-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
Jörgen Hägg said: > Somehow the swirl on this page seems familiar... :-) Somehow this thread seems familiar... :-) http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200212/msg00117.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200207/msg00167.html http://lists.debian.org/debian

Re: popular swirl...

2003-12-30 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
Ben Reser wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:28:10PM +0100, Jörgen Hägg wrote: Somehow the swirl on this page seems familiar... :-) http://www.elektrostore.com/ (The picture is here: http://www.elektrostore.com/Bilder/electro_loga.gif ) Hell that's not just familiar that's a blatent rip. L

Re: popular swirl...

2003-12-30 Thread Ben Reser
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:28:10PM +0100, Jörgen Hägg wrote: > Somehow the swirl on this page seems familiar... :-) > > http://www.elektrostore.com/ > > (The picture is here: http://www.elektrostore.com/Bilder/electro_loga.gif ) Hell that's not just familiar that's a blatent rip. Lest anyone do

popular swirl...

2003-12-30 Thread Jörgen Hägg
Somehow the swirl on this page seems familiar... :-) http://www.elektrostore.com/ (The picture is here: http://www.elektrostore.com/Bilder/electro_loga.gif )

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 09:02:35PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 04:31:42AM +, Henning Makholm wrote: > > > > Which would amount to saying "We won't tell you why, but please change > > > your name." I think that would

Re: SRFI copyright license

2003-12-30 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Jakob Bohm wrote: The main trick is to distinguish between the original full text SRFI ("the document") and the free software (document that excerpts or derives from the document). Sure, but if you take that tack, the prohibition of modification of "