Re: Software license used for SHA-2 reference code

2006-02-17 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Simon, On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 10:22:32AM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: Hi. A newly approved IETF document contains reference code for SHA-2, and they propose to use the following license: 1.1 License Royalty free license to copy and use this software is granted, provided that

Software license used for SHA-2 reference code

2006-02-17 Thread Simon Josefsson
Hi. A newly approved IETF document contains reference code for SHA-2, and they propose to use the following license: 1.1 License Royalty free license to copy and use this software is granted, provided that redistributed derivative works do not contain misleading author or version

Re: Software license used for SHA-2 reference code

2006-02-17 Thread Simon Josefsson
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Simon, On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 10:22:32AM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: Hi. A newly approved IETF document contains reference code for SHA-2, and they propose to use the following license: 1.1 License Royalty free license to copy and use

Re: Software license used for SHA-2 reference code

2006-02-17 Thread Frank Küster
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Royalty free license to copy and use this software is granted, provided that redistributed derivative works do not contain misleading author or version information. Royalty free license is also granted to make and use derivative works

Re: Software license used for SHA-2 reference code

2006-02-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:27:09AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Royalty free license to copy and use this software is granted, provided that redistributed derivative works do not contain misleading author or version information. Royalty free

Re: Software license used for SHA-2 reference code

2006-02-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. A newly approved IETF document contains reference code for SHA-2, and they propose to use the following license: Is this DFSG-free? It looks fine to me, but if it's still a draft then I think it would be useful to use a wording less vague than misleading author or

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-17 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps we should consider amending section 4 of the DFSG so that instead of only allowing one restriction on modification (changes must be distributed in source form as patches to the unmodified sources) to allowing any restrictions on a Debian Free

Re: Software license used for SHA-2 reference code

2006-02-17 Thread Simon Josefsson
Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. A newly approved IETF document contains reference code for SHA-2, and they propose to use the following license: Is this DFSG-free? It looks fine to me, but if it's still a draft then I think it would be useful to use a

Re: Software license used for SHA-2 reference code

2006-02-17 Thread Mark Rafn
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Marco d'Itri wrote: It looks fine to me, but if it's still a draft then I think it would be useful to use a wording less vague than misleading author or version information. Agreed. It's fine to say that the package must be labelled as to modifications made, but this

Re: Regarding partner

2006-02-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 07:31:59AM -0800, Jim Westveer wrote: Natarajan, I am most likely not the person to be asking these questions of. You ask: Can I conduct a Course called Debian Certified Engineer (DCE) without asking permission anybody You may want to ask this question on the

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Adam McKenna wrote: I don't know of any device that rejects files of a particular encoding. Can you give an example of such a device? My portable music player barfs pretty badly on anything that isn't ASCII. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-17 Thread Gledd Maynard
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 06:32:58PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: And, further, the GFDL says I must preserve invariant sections unaltered in their text, not unaltered in their octects; I seriously doubt that'd count... Would I be in violation if I was to take a GNU manual, untar it,