Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Josh Triplett
severity 290242 serious retitle 290242 Prozilla is non-free: requires notification for commercial use thanks Justin Pryzby wrote: Package: prozilla Version: 1:1.3.6-11 Severity: normal ftpparse.c heading: Commercial use is fine, if you let me know what programs you're using

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:16:21AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: Justin Pryzby wrote: ftpparse.c heading: Commercial use is fine, if you let me know what programs you're using this in. Which I believes fails the desert-island test? Legal, can you confirm? Confirmed;

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 06:37:55PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 11:03:19PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: Please use X-Debbugs-CC to Cc bug reports. See http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting. On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:44:13AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: ftpparse.c

Re: mozilla thunderbird trademark restrictions / still dfsg free?

2005-01-13 Thread Daniel Goldsmith
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:42:05 -0800, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 08:44:00PM +0100, Claus Färber wrote: I know of other precedents that say otherwise. E.g. automobile modders in Europe have to remove the original trademarks. That is by far the most

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:46:51AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:16:21AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: Justin Pryzby wrote: ftpparse.c heading: Commercial use is fine, if you let me know what programs you're using this in. Which I believes fails the

Re: mozilla thunderbird trademark restrictions / still dfsg free?

2005-01-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:52:46AM +, Daniel Goldsmith wrote: On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:42:05 -0800, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 08:44:00PM +0100, Claus Färber wrote: I know of other precedents that say otherwise. E.g. automobile modders in Europe

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Josh Triplett
Brian Nelson wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:16:21AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: Justin Pryzby wrote: ftpparse.c heading: Commercial use is fine, if you let me know what programs you're using this in. Which I believes fails the desert-island test? Legal, can you confirm?

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:54:29AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:46:51AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:16:21AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: Justin Pryzby wrote: ftpparse.c heading: Commercial use is fine, if you let me

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:39:30PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:30:52AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: Wrong? Well http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Commercial-HOWTO.html uses the term to mean exactly that. I can't see (from a quick sampling of the items in there) that any

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread MJ Ray
Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:54:29AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:46:51AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: Bullshit. There's no requirement whatsoever that a source file may be used at all commercially, assuming the common

Re: mozilla thunderbird trademark restrictions / still dfsg free?

2005-01-13 Thread MJ Ray
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Claus_F=E4rber?=) wrote: I know of other precedents that say otherwise. E.g. automobile modders in Europe have to remove the original trademarks. I can believe that they have to remove the trademarked symbol from the bonnet and boot, but I can't believe that

Re: Questions about legal theory behind (L)GPL

2005-01-13 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Michael Edwards wrote: Sorry, I'll try to be clearer. Even if the return performance is impossible without exercising rights only available under the license, it's still performance. Right, this was the very specific question we were getting to. :-) In determining the DFSG-freeness of a

Re: Draft summary of Creative Commons 2.0 licenses (version 2)

2005-01-13 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I've been contacted by people at Creative Commons who'd like to have a telephone conference to go over the draft. I think they're open to our suggestions, if we can stay focused on particulars. Right now, I think this is going to have to happen in late Jan. I'm running behind on a lot of

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-13 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Glenn Maynard wrote: It'd be useful to have a real-life example of a server that needs to be sent proprietary data for a legitimate reason (in the sense that a device needing to be sent firmware is legitimate). Habeas SWE. I believe SpamAssassin implements the server side (through hashes to avoid

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Combining X+Y in the way that you have described is anything but mechanical: it is a task which typically takes a skilled programmer a great amount of time and thought. Different programmers might do it in different ways. I'm not referring here to the work done by ld, but to the process of

Re: Hypothetical situation to chew on

2005-01-13 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I wrote: In contrast, pre-1986 (I think) US law specified that works published (== deliberately distributed to the public by their authors) without a copyright statement went into the public domain. Michael Edwards wrote: 1976; but otherwise basically correct (IANAL) Checked this one

Re: Hypothetical situation to chew on

2005-01-13 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Michael Edwards wrote: If one wants to remove ambiguity about the copyright status of small contributions to a joint work, one could require either assignment of copyright to the primary holder or formal placement into the public domain, One of the very unfortunate side effects of the Berne

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Lewis Jardine
Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Combining X+Y in the way that you have described is anything but mechanical: it is a task which typically takes a skilled programmer a great amount of time and thought. Different programmers might do it in different ways. I'm not referring here to the work done by ld,

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Måns Rullgård
Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Combining X+Y in the way that you have described is anything but mechanical: it is a task which typically takes a skilled programmer a great amount of time and thought. Different programmers might do it in different ways. I'm not referring here

Re: why is graphviz package non-free?

2005-01-13 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Glenn Maynard wrote: This is questionable. I modify your work, removing a feature that somebody likes, and sell it. That somebody, as a result (caused by the act) of me removing that feature in my redistribution, decides to sue you for allowing me to do so. You only idemnify the author to the

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:13:50PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: prozilla Version: 1:1.3.6-11 Severity: normal ftpparse.c heading: Commercial use is fine, if you let me know what programs you're using this in. Which I

Re: why is graphviz package non-free?

2005-01-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 08:57:14PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: This is the Common Public License, version 1.0, with the revision right solely tied to IBM. This is a bit surprising, but doesn't have any impact on the DFSG-freeness of the this

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: prozilla Version: 1:1.3.6-11 Severity: normal ftpparse.c heading: Commercial use is fine, if you let me know what programs you're using this in. Which I believes fails the desert-island test? Legal, can you confirm? Yes, if

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Lewis Jardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Combining X+Y in the way that you have described is anything but mechanical: it is a task which typically takes a skilled programmer a great amount of time and thought. Different programmers might do it in different ways.

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Combining X+Y in the way that you have described is anything but mechanical: it is a task which typically takes a skilled programmer a great amount of time and thought. Different programmers might do it

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:18:14AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:13:50PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: Yes, if this is indeed a licence term. As quoted here it could also be a non-legal notice that the author considers commercial use without notification to be not

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Dalibor Topic
Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [large discussion of C snipped out] In the case of Java, the binding is even looser. A class might contain references to other classes which the JVM is free to look for anywhere it pleases. AFAIK, Eclipse uses only the standard

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:08:59 -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Combining X+Y in the way that you have described is anything but mechanical: it is a task which typically takes a skilled programmer a great amount of time and thought. Different programmers might do it in

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Måns Rullgård
Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lewis Jardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Combining X+Y in the way that you have described is anything but mechanical: it is a task which typically takes a skilled programmer a great amount of time and thought.

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:08:23PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote: It is also legal to sell all the ingredients for a bomb, along with instructions needed to build one. However, building and using the bomb is most likely illegal. As a general rule, bombs are not copyrighted works. -- Raul --

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:21:51 -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] So in answer to your direct question: the unlinked binary isn't derived from any of them. The complete binary, including its libraries, included whichever one Debian shipped it with. No, it's not a

Re: why is graphviz package non-free?

2005-01-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:09:17PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: I am not convinced that this is free, but I strongly doubt that the people at graphviz org intended it either. It can't be an issue for DFSG-freeness, because of this part: The Program (including Contributions) may always be

Re: Questions about legal theory behind (L)GPL

2005-01-13 Thread Michael K. Edwards
Actually, Effects v. Cohen is a prime example of implied license as an implied provision in the existing contract: quote section=FN1 The district court initially dismissed the suit, holding that it was primarily a contract dispute and, as such, did not arise under federal law. In an opinion

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Michael Poole
Raul Miller writes: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:08:23PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote: It is also legal to sell all the ingredients for a bomb, along with instructions needed to build one. However, building and using the bomb is most likely illegal. As a general rule, bombs are not

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:08:23PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: So you are basically saying that aiding or hinting the end-user to create these would-be derivative works is enough to be violating the license? That's overstated. It's enough to have to argue the point in court and be unsure of

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:28:42PM -0500, Michael Poole wrote: The DFSG supposedly allow users to use Debian-distributed software in any way they wish. The theme of this thread seems to be that some people believe run-time linking of an application against a GPLed library, when there are

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:11:22PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Combining X+Y in the way that you have described is anything but mechanical: it is a task which typically takes a skilled programmer a great amount of time and thought. Different

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Måns Rullgård
Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:08:23PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: So you are basically saying that aiding or hinting the end-user to create these would-be derivative works is enough to be violating the license? That's overstated. It's enough to have to

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
On Thu, 2005-13-01 at 19:02 +0100, Dalibor Topic wrote: Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [large discussion of C snipped out] In the case of Java, the binding is even looser. A class might contain references to other classes which the JVM is free to

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Måns Rullgård
Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:11:22PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Combining X+Y in the way that you have described is anything but mechanical: it is a task which typically takes a skilled programmer a

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Måns Rullgård
Grzegorz B. Prokopski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2005-13-01 at 19:02 +0100, Dalibor Topic wrote: Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [large discussion of C snipped out] In the case of Java, the binding is even looser. A class might contain

Re: Does GPL allow that? (not theorhetical)

2005-01-13 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
Hi, There's been a lenghty (but in my opinion more fruitful) discussion of similar matters on the Linux kernel mailing list. We all know that FSF might be sometimes seen as interpreting its licenses very strictly, but we also know that OTOH Linus has much more permissive approach. Yet, if you

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:58:53PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: Then how can things like thepiratebay.org be legal? They aren't with any degree of certainty. It's certain enough that Microsoft have failed to shut them down. They haven't tried. All Microsoft have done to them so far is

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Michael Poole
Andrew Suffield writes: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:28:42PM -0500, Michael Poole wrote: The DFSG supposedly allow users to use Debian-distributed software in any way they wish. The theme of this thread seems to be that some people believe run-time linking of an application against a GPLed

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Måns Rullgård
Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:58:53PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: Then how can things like thepiratebay.org be legal? They aren't with any degree of certainty. It's certain enough that Microsoft have failed to shut them down. They haven't tried.

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
On Thu, 2005-13-01 at 20:15 +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote: Grzegorz B. Prokopski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2005-13-01 at 19:55 +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote: Grzegorz B. Prokopski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I fail to see the relevance of this paragraph to the discussion at hand. The

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Michael Poole
Grzegorz B. Prokopski writes: On Thu, 2005-13-01 at 19:19 +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:02:57PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: Derivation is something that happens when you *write* the program. Not when you build it. How many times does it have to be

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Eclipse authors do not tell you which JVM to use. But Debian does, when it says: Depends: j2re1.4 | j2re1.3 | java2-runtime So the eclipse-platform distributed by Debian *does* call on a particular JVM. And it isn't kaffe, it's Sun's. We do

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:08:59 -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Combining X+Y in the way that you have described is anything but mechanical: it is a task which typically takes a skilled programmer a great amount of time and

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 13 Jan 2005 15:05:36 -0500, Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grzegorz B. Prokopski writes: [snip] Even according to Linus such use is not permitted http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2003/Dec/1042.html Linux header files are different from Java packages in a number of

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Michael Poole
Grzegorz B. Prokopski writes: Do you understand that an interpreter for Java IS such an interpreter that provides bindings to other facilities? Do you understand that a program being interpreted is effectively linked to these facilities it uses thru these bindings? Do you understand that

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:19:36 -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] But in our case you're using an implementation that also at the same time defines the interface (this if functional equivalent of header files). You cannot simply take a GPL implementation, compile

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Mns Rullgrd
Grzegorz B. Prokopski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2005-13-01 at 20:58 +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote: Grzegorz B. Prokopski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now, in our case, Eclipse is linked agains a libraries that ARE GPLed. No, it is being interpreted by an interpreter that is covered by

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
On Thu, 2005-13-01 at 15:28 -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:21:51 -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] So in answer to your direct question: the unlinked binary isn't derived from any of

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Mns Rullgrd
Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Eclipse authors do not tell you which JVM to use. But Debian does, when it says: Depends: j2re1.4 | j2re1.3 | java2-runtime So the eclipse-platform distributed by Debian *does* call on a particular

Re: why is graphviz package non-free?

2005-01-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:09:17PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: I am not convinced that this is free, but I strongly doubt that the people at graphviz org intended it either. The Program (including Contributions) may always be distributed

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:16:53 -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [quoting Michael Poole] It is not hard: Some distribution of Eclipse is only encumbered by the GPL if it requires a GPLed work to correctly operate. You may have some odd version of Eclipse, but the standard

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
On Thu, 2005-13-01 at 21:56 +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote: Grzegorz B. Prokopski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2005-13-01 at 20:58 +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote: Grzegorz B. Prokopski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now, in our case, Eclipse is linked agains a libraries that ARE GPLed. No,

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-13 Thread Josh Triplett
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Glenn Maynard wrote: It'd be useful to have a real-life example of a server that needs to be sent proprietary data for a legitimate reason (in the sense that a device needing to be sent firmware is legitimate). Habeas SWE. I believe SpamAssassin implements the

Re: why is graphviz package non-free?

2005-01-13 Thread Josh Triplett
Raul Miller wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:18:21PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: To make what I fear explicit, here is a fleshed-out scenario: 1. A writes a program and releases it under the current CPL. 2. B takes A's program, hacks on it, distributes his Contributions on a website

Re: Questions about legal theory behind (L)GPL

2005-01-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 07:46:18 -0500, Nathanael Nerode I guess I'm convinced. :-) That the GPL is legally an offer of contract? If so, it's good to know that the substance of my argument is persuasive to at least one person besides myself. :-)

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Mns Rullgrd
Grzegorz B. Prokopski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Putting it differently: if that was allowed, then why do we need glibc to be LGPLed, and not GPLed? After all the C language and its basic libraries are also standarized to great extent. I can see no real reason. But having glibc purely GPL

Re: why is graphviz package non-free?

2005-01-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:18:21PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: To make what I fear explicit, here is a fleshed-out scenario: 1. A writes a program and releases it under the current CPL. 2. B takes A's program, hacks on it, distributes his

Re: how to mention GPL in the debian/copyright file

2005-01-13 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Henning, thank you for your help. On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:25:58PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: What you should include is the exact notice found in the upstream source which says that the program is covered by the GPL. Does this mean we need all the notes from the source files with

Re: how to mention GPL in the debian/copyright file

2005-01-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Jochen Voss wrote: I have a question about how to write the debian/copyright file for packages which are distributed under the GPL. Currently the debian/copyright file of chbg contains the paragraph Chbg is copyrigthed by Ondrejicka Stefan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). It

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Grzegorz B. Prokopski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which Eclipse packages? The old ones we have in SID now? Irrelevant. There would have been nothing whatsoever to discuss in such case. The *new* Eclipse packages that are being prepared now and which we've been discussing (I already said it in

Firefox/Thunderbird trademarks: a proposal

2005-01-13 Thread Gervase Markham
Here's my attempt at something which hopefully everyone can accept. I've tried to take into account all the excellent feedback over the past few weeks, for which I thank all involved. Comments are in square brackets. This assumes that DFSG #8 means that Debian can be given rights over and

Re: how to mention GPL in the debian/copyright file

2005-01-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Jochen Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recently Justin Pryzby filed bug #290087 against chbg, claiming that the debian/copyright file should instead contain the 3 paragraphs as found in /usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/native/copyright, which turn

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Grzegorz B. Prokopski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2005-13-01 at 15:58 -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:19:36PM -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfInterpreterIsGPL However, when the interpreter is extended to provide

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:02:52 -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Why are copies OK, and derivative works not? I see GPL 2b talking about any work that in whole or in part contains the Program. Eclipse+Kaffe contains Kaffe, GPL 2 then exempts mere aggregation -- which

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:21:52 -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] As is the creation of a critical essay on libc. But that's not a derivative work either. But an annotated edition of libc is. A program seems far more

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:29:13PM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote: copyrightable. To get at the cases the FSF is shooting for, they would have to use terms of art instead of derivative or collective works, and would have to insert far more draconian provisions to create an action for breach

Illustrating JVM bindings

2005-01-13 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
On Thu, 2005-13-01 at 17:24 -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:35:50PM -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: But was Kaffe _extended_ to provide such bindings for Eclipse 3.0? This FAQ entry discusses 2 cases. One is when we have an interpreter, that basically goes over

Re: why is graphviz package non-free?

2005-01-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has come up in the past, under the argument that requiring this violates the under the same terms as the license of the original software provision of DFSG#3: you aren't allowed to distribute modifications under the same terms you received them, but

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
On Thu, 2005-13-01 at 18:13 -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Grzegorz B. Prokopski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which Eclipse packages? The old ones we have in SID now? Irrelevant. There would have been nothing whatsoever to discuss in such case. The *new* Eclipse packages that are being

Re: Illustrating JVM bindings

2005-01-13 Thread Raul Miller
Is this relevant to Eclipse? I was under the impression that Eclipse was pure java -- that it did not use JNI at all. If Eclipse does use JNI, would still a question about whether or not Kaffe's JNI implementation constitute some kind of extension designed to work around the GPL or

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:25:49PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:58:53PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: Then how can things like thepiratebay.org be legal? They aren't with any degree of certainty. It's certain

Re: Questions about legal theory behind (L)GPL

2005-01-13 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:00:05 +, Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got lost somewhere along the way: Why is it important to you whether the GPL is a contract or not? To me, personally? It bugs me to see needless conflicts within the Free Software world caused by GPL interpretations

Re: Firefox/Thunderbird trademarks: a proposal

2005-01-13 Thread Michael K. Edwards
Change the name of the package will have to be changed to the Mozilla Foundation reserves the right to withdraw license to its trademarks and I think it's completely unobjectionable. IANADD, IANAL. Thanks to Gervase for being such a pro. Cheers, - Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

OT: GPL section 4 termination clause

2005-01-13 Thread Lewis Jardine
Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: And GPL also says, that the person who packages and then distributes breaks the rules of GPL, it has no longer right to distribute nor use the GPLed work. As an aside, what's to stop a party, having violated the GPL at some point (and therefore having had their

Re: Illustrating JVM bindings

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Grzegorz B. Prokopski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These facilities include class loading, class instantiation, synchronization, garbage collection (ie. you can trigger GC from within your program), reflection (ie. you can ask VM what are methods that this class have?). Those are features of

Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [no longer relevant to debian-java, I think] On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:28:57 -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] You are ignoring the

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:25:06AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:00:47AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:30:52AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: I can only find it currently in 2 packages in Debian--prozilla and elinks. The others that used it in

prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: prozilla Version: 1:1.3.6-11 Severity: normal ftpparse.c heading: Commercial use is fine, if you let me know what programs you're using this in. Which I believes fails the desert-island test? Legal, can you confirm?

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Please use X-Debbugs-CC to Cc bug reports. See http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting. On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:44:13AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: ftpparse.c heading: Commercial use is fine, if you let me know what programs you're using this in. Which I believes fails the

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 11:03:19PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: Please use X-Debbugs-CC to Cc bug reports. See http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting. On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:44:13AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: ftpparse.c heading: Commercial use is fine, if you let me know what

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Josh Triplett
severity 290242 serious retitle 290242 Prozilla is non-free: requires notification for commercial use thanks Justin Pryzby wrote: Package: prozilla Version: 1:1.3.6-11 Severity: normal ftpparse.c heading: Commercial use is fine, if you let me know what programs you're using

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:16:21AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: Justin Pryzby wrote: ftpparse.c heading: Commercial use is fine, if you let me know what programs you're using this in. Which I believes fails the desert-island test? Legal, can you confirm? Confirmed;

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 06:37:55PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 11:03:19PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: Please use X-Debbugs-CC to Cc bug reports. See http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting. On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:44:13AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: ftpparse.c

Re: mozilla thunderbird trademark restrictions / still dfsg free?

2005-01-13 Thread Daniel Goldsmith
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:42:05 -0800, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 08:44:00PM +0100, Claus Färber wrote: I know of other precedents that say otherwise. E.g. automobile modders in Europe have to remove the original trademarks. That is by far the most

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:46:51AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:16:21AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: Justin Pryzby wrote: ftpparse.c heading: Commercial use is fine, if you let me know what programs you're using this in. Which I believes fails the

Re: mozilla thunderbird trademark restrictions / still dfsg free?

2005-01-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:52:46AM +, Daniel Goldsmith wrote: On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:42:05 -0800, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 08:44:00PM +0100, Claus Färber wrote: I know of other precedents that say otherwise. E.g. automobile modders in Europe

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Josh Triplett
Brian Nelson wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:16:21AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: Justin Pryzby wrote: ftpparse.c heading: Commercial use is fine, if you let me know what programs you're using this in. Which I believes fails the desert-island test? Legal, can you confirm?

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:54:29AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:46:51AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:16:21AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: Justin Pryzby wrote: ftpparse.c heading: Commercial use is fine, if you let me

OleMiss Email Account cnlawren DEACTIVATED

2005-01-13 Thread Christopher Lawrence
This account is no longer active. Thus, your mail regarding [PMX:VIRUS] Re: will not be received.

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:30:52AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:54:29AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:46:51AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:16:21AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: Justin Pryzby wrote: ftpparse.c

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread David Schleef
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:16:21AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: severity 290242 serious retitle 290242 Prozilla is non-free: requires notification for commercial use thanks Justin Pryzby wrote: Package: prozilla Version: 1:1.3.6-11 Severity: normal ftpparse.c heading:

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:30:52AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:54:29AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:46:51AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:16:21AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: Justin Pryzby wrote: ftpparse.c

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:39:30PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:30:52AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: Wrong? Well http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Commercial-HOWTO.html uses the term to mean exactly that. I can't see (from a quick sampling of the items in there) that any

Re: prozilla: Nonfree

2005-01-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:06:29AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:39:30PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:30:52AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: Wrong? Well http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Commercial-HOWTO.html uses the term to mean exactly that.

  1   2   >