Fwd: Re: [PATCHES] [PATCH] Add support for GnuTLS

There is currently a bit of a standoff among the PostgreSQL developers about whether to add GnuTLS support in addition to OpenSSL because of various claims that certain GPL'ed Debian packages cannot include PostgreSQL support because that would indirectly link to OpenSSL. One leading developer

Re: Sun responds to questions on the DLJ

Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au Please note that Walter does not speak for the Debian project, and is not a developer, maintainer, or new-maintainer applicant, just a participant on this mailing list. I think enough DDs agree that the FAQ with the 'please ignore' label is irrelevant to

license of translations

Hello, debian-i18n is going to setup an translation infrastructure. It would be nice to have a discussion and some advices about the translations' licenses. I would like to avoid the positions of two other projects: * The Translation Project is asking for a (paper) disclaimer for the GNU

DFSG-freeness of the CID Font Code Public Licence

[Please CC on replies, M-F-T set accordingly.] Hello, I'd like an opinion about the DFSG-freeness of the CID Font Code Public License, included below. A utility normally shipped with X11, mkcfm, was recently removed because the license was regarded non-free; this statement seems to come from

Re: ipv6calc: IP address assignments as source code

Niko Tyni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For IANA, the data actually is already in Debian main, in the doc-iana package. The e-mail correspondence found in the doc-iana debian/copyright file [3] indicates that the rfc-copyright-story document [4] applies to all IANA documents. This looks

Re: license of translations

Nicolas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like to avoid the positions of two other projects: * The Translation Project is asking for a (paper) disclaimer for the GNU translations [1] (I find it too restrictive) This is arguably the safest and is similar to other GNU

Re: [PATCHES] [PATCH] Add support for GnuTLS

Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is currently a bit of a standoff among the PostgreSQL developers about whether to add GnuTLS support in addition to OpenSSL because of various claims that certain GPL'ed Debian packages cannot include PostgreSQL support because that would

GPL violates DFSG point 3

Hello, Please forgive me if this has already been raised but I cannot imagine how to search the archives to see if it has. It occurs to me that the GPL itself violates section 3 of the DFSG, it cannot be freely modified. (See: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL) Do not many of

Re: GPL violates DFSG point 3

Karl O. Pinc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please forgive me if this has already been raised but I cannot imagine how to search the archives to see if it has. It occurs to me that the GPL itself violates section 3 of the DFSG, it cannot be freely modified. (See: