Re: to Andrew Suffield

2004-03-08 Thread Måns Rullgård
Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 08:13:14PM -0500, selussos wrote: Someone sent me a comment from you on our license. I am not subscribed to this list as I have already said, and so I can only paraphrase from the list and ask, was this comment, ontological,

Re: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License

2004-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 02:46:15 + selussos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not in the United States. Copyright law here has no fair use term in it, only a restricted fair dealing provision. We cannot rely on the US copyright law's fair use contradicting your licence terms in a way that makes it a

Re: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License

2004-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 05:59:31 + Ben Reser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It does say conditions and if you don't consider the warranty disclaimer and the sentence following it to be conditions then there would only be one condition. So I'd argue the advertising part of the XFree86 1.0 license is also a

Re: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License

2004-03-08 Thread Humberto Massa
selussos wrote: on the US copyright law's fair use contradicting your licence terms in a way that makes it a free software licence. I ask that you familiarise yourself with this basic problem of copyright and free software. Software that is free only for US residents isn't free software (or

Adding modified autoconf macro to a QPLed tree

2004-03-08 Thread Siggy Brentrup
[Please Cc me on replies since I'm not subscribed to d-legal] Hi, I'm adopting the spamprobe package which is under the QPL (Qt public license). The package has a broken configure.in script that results in linking against libdb3.so even when libdb4.2-dev is installed. The previous maintainer

Re: Bug#227793: pgeasy has no copyright

2004-03-08 Thread Steve Langasek
[CC:ed to debian-legal, for sanity checking] On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:47:54PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: On 2004-03-06 22:20 -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: While the lack of a valid copyright statement within the package is an RC bug, I don't think there's any legal basis for claiming the

Re: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License

2004-03-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 09:46:15PM -0500, selussos wrote: - Original Message - From: MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] On 2004-03-08 00:57:38 + selussos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of you have stated, endlessly, that you are not lawyers, and that is obviously the case since

Re: X-Oz Technologies

2004-03-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 08:00:49PM -0500, selussos wrote: We are cross purposes Branden. because of the virality of attachments, I do not open them. You confuse me; you replied[1] to a previous message of mine[2] which contained an attachment of identical type (a PGP/MIME digital signature).

Re: X-Oz Technologies

2004-03-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 07:54:38PM -0500, selussos wrote: Sue, There is a principle in hermeneutics that says: there are no useless words. This means, basically: if you want to say the same thing, use the same words. If you don't use the same words, you don't want to say the same

Re: nmap licensing claims

2004-03-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:05:43PM +0200, Birzan George Cristian wrote: Now, the reason I'm posting here is I've noticed the following claim made by nmap developers [1]: in accordance with section 4 of the GPL, we hereby terminate SCO's rights to redistribute any versions of Nmap in any of