Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-02-01 Thread Pavel Šimerda
On 2006-01-31 00:40, Francesco Poli wrote: On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:34:25 -0500 Nathanael Nerode wrote: olive [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I personnaly think that Debian would do better to defend free software if there were in accordance to the FSF. I personally think that the FSF

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-02-01 Thread olive
Nathanael Nerode wrote: olive [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I personnaly think that Debian would do better to defend free software if there were in accordance to the FSF. I personally think that the FSF would do much, much better at defending free software if they operated in accordance with

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-02-01 Thread Yorick Cool
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 04:22:01PM +0400, olive wrote: olive Nathanael Nerode wrote: olive olive [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: olive olive I personnaly think that Debian would do better to defend free software if olive olive there were in accordance to the FSF. olive olive I personally think that

Re: Trademark policy for packages?

2006-02-01 Thread Simon Josefsson
Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:28:54PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: Project Athena, Athena, Athena MUSE, Discuss, Hesiod, Kerberos, Moira, and Zephyr are trademarks of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). No commercial use of these

Re: Trademark policy for packages?

2006-02-01 Thread Simon Josefsson
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scripsit Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm packaging Shishi, a Kerberos implementation, for Debian. The term Kerberos is a trademark held by MIT, according to RFC 1510: ... My question is: What is Debian's policy on trademarks for terms used

Re: Anti-DMCA clause (was Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-02-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Florian Weimer wrote: * Nathanael Nerode: Hrrm. We need a different clause then. No program licensed under this License, which accesses a work, shall require the authority of the copyright owner for that work, in order to gain access to that work. Accordingly, no program licensed under

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-02-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 01:45:49PM +0100, Yorick Cool wrote: Without taking a stance on the GFDL issue, I agree with the fact that Debian should be cautious not to go to far in it's assessment of licenses. In my view, a license can be free and yet not ideal, the two are different. And I feel

Re: Trademark policy for packages?

2006-02-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the use of a trademark word to refer unambiguously to a specific technical protocol in package descriptions and documentation (that is, not in marketing materials) even require a trademark license? I know that it certainly does not in Denmark, but

Re: Trademark policy for packages?

2006-02-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:18:10PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the use of a trademark word to refer unambiguously to a specific technical protocol in package descriptions and documentation (that is, not in marketing materials) even require a