2(c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
when run, you must cause it, when started running for such interactive
use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an announcement
including an appropriate copyright notice and a notice that there is
no warranty (or
On May 21, 2004, at 18:36, Lewis Jardine wrote:
8 bears a lot of resemblance to don't break the law clauses
IMO, Mexicans can't distribute this software isn't free, even if its
part of the GPL.
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:38:17AM -0400, Dan Weber wrote:
The reason why libfasttrack-gift has never been placed into debian is
because it doesn't even qualify non-free. Debian could be sued for
this, and other reasons due to its reverse engineering.
May I ask you in which country
Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:38:17AM -0400, Dan Weber wrote:
The reason why libfasttrack-gift has never been placed into debian is
because it doesn't even qualify non-free. Debian could be sued for
this, and other reasons due to its reverse engineering.
May I
Dan Weber wrote:
Specifically, I recall someone saying that the algorithm used by Sherman
Networks is Copyrighted. Even though the upstream is reverse
engineering it, I don't think its legal to use.
Algorithms can't be copyrighted, only specific implementations of an
algorithm. Algorithms
* Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo:
May I ask you in which country reverse-engineering for compatibility is
forbidden?
Probably in none. But publishing your results is not automatically
allowed, and sometimes, there are safeguards against producing a clone
(which serves as a replacement of the
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 10:19:59PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 03:18:05AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
A clause which says you must credit the original author using the
following text, is not okay.
That one neatly and clearly classifies the vast majority of the
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 11:11:36PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 11:02:17PM -0400, Adam Kessel wrote:
My understanding is that this just provides you with evidentiary support
that the warranty disclaimer is unequivocal. As a counterexample,
imagine a product with the
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 09:18:26PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 10:19:59PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 03:18:05AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
A clause which says you must credit the original author using the
following text, is not okay.
On May 23, 2004, at 11:38, Dan Weber wrote:
The reason why libfasttrack-gift has never been placed into debian is
because it doesn't even qualify non-free. Debian could be sued for
this, and other reasons due to its reverse engineering.
Debian has plenty of other software in its archives
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 05:52:46PM +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:38:17AM -0400, Dan Weber wrote:
The reason why libfasttrack-gift has never been placed into debian is
because it doesn't even qualify non-free. Debian could be sued for
this, and other
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 01:20:47AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
May I ask you in which country reverse-engineering for compatibility is
forbidden?
I'm just curious, because it is legal in Poland, but only for
compatibility reasons, and I guess this situation fits this.
That's
Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
I think that many programs from OpenSource world are made via reverse
engineering, and there is no problem with including them in Debian.
Consider the most important. Linux kernel. Many drivers are made this
way.
regards
fEnIo
Don't forget SAMBA - it's a
Wouter Verhelst writes:
This is good, but it's not true anywhere else; so if the reverse
engineering has been done outside the EU, there's a problem.
Reverse-engineering is legal in the USA.
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