Re: lirc license

2005-03-26 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 01:41:37AM +, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 01:38:25PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: [...] However, when starting irrecord, it says: IMPORTANT: The license of the config files created by this program requires that you send them to the author. If you

Re: Debian and Cuba

2005-03-26 Thread Josh Triplett
Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 12:44:11AM -0400, Maykel Moya wrote: Today I attended at 'I Taller de Software Libre' in the most important university here in Cuba. Some guys there are creating a Distro optimized for our country, and they are taking Gentoo as base. In their talk

Re: Linux and GPLv2

2005-03-26 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Anthony W. Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Even when the work is not copyrightable? (eg header files :-) It is false that header files are not copyrightable. -- Henning Makholm What has it got in its pocketses? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Linux and GPLv2#

2005-03-26 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 09:55:40AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: 'Worse' is purely a matter of perspective. There's irony here... On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 05:31:27AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: No, there isn't. It's very simple. You called it a perversion, which means you think it's worse.

Re: Linux and GPLv2#

2005-03-26 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 11:16:29AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 09:55:40AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: 'Worse' is purely a matter of perspective. There's irony here... On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 05:31:27AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: No, there isn't. It's very

Re: Draft summary of Creative Commons 2.0 licenses (version 3)

2005-03-26 Thread Evan Prodromou
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 12:21 +0200, Henri Sivonen wrote: I think it is in the spirit of the Creative Commons licenses not to require a transparent copy for editing. That's true. However, for a work to be DFSG-free, source code must be supplied. Therefore, I think it would be wrong to fix

Re: Draft summary of Creative Commons 2.0 licenses (version 3)

2005-03-26 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Evan Prodromou [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 12:21 +0200, Henri Sivonen wrote: I think it is in the spirit of the Creative Commons licenses not to require a transparent copy for editing. That's true. However, for a work to be DFSG-free, source code must be supplied.

Re: Debian and Cuba

2005-03-26 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Saturday 26 March 2005 01:01 am, Josh Triplett wrote: To the best of my knowledge (IANAL), there is no issue with someone in Cuba or another embargoed country downloading Debian from ftp.xx.debian.org, for values of xx != us or probably a few others. Key issue here: it is *not* illegal to

Re: Debian and Cuba

2005-03-26 Thread Michael Below
Sean Kellogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Um, yeah, I'm not a lawyer either... but I play one at school, and I wouldn't be so sure about that. While Cuba/US relations are pretty bad, Cuba does have relationships with other European nations. As part of the compromise between the US and

Re: Draft summary of Creative Commons 2.0 licenses (version 3)

2005-03-26 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
I apologize to be jumping in this at such a late stage. :) quote who=Evan Prodromou date=2005-03-18 14:28:24 -0500 Hi, everyone. At long last, I've made some final revisions to the draft summary of the Creative Commons 2.0 licenses. The main changes have been: * Additional phrasing

Re: Debian and Cuba

2005-03-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:54:54PM +0100, Michael Below wrote: Sean Kellogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Um, yeah, I'm not a lawyer either... but I play one at school, and I wouldn't be so sure about that. While Cuba/US relations are pretty bad, Cuba does have relationships with other

Re: Linux and GPLv2

2005-03-26 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:49:34 +0100 (MET) Gerardo Ballabio wrote: From: Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I don't think it's forbidding to remove the code: it's merely forbidding to drop a feature. You could reimplement it in a better (or even worse) way, but you must support

Re: Draft summary of Creative Commons 2.0 licenses (version 3)

2005-03-26 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:27:57 -0500 Benj. Mako Hill wrote: [anti-DRM clause] In terms of suggesting a textual fix, how about: You may not distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform the Work with any technological measures that control access or use of

Re: Draft summary of Creative Commons 2.0 licenses (version 3)

2005-03-26 Thread Lewis Jardine
Francesco Poli wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:27:57 -0500 Benj. Mako Hill wrote: [anti-DRM clause] In terms of suggesting a textual fix, how about: You may not distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform the Work with any technological measures that control access