Re: Hypocrisy of Debian (was: Sorry, no more RC bugs for non-free data in main ...)

2006-09-09 Thread Roberto Gordo Saez
On 9/5/06, Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Markus Laire ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060830 15:01]: This problem was mentioned in this list on _2004_ but cdrtools still hasn't been removed from Debian (see [2]). IMHO hypocrisy is perfect word to describe such behaviour. This list isn't the

Re: Hypocrisy of Debian (was: Sorry, no more RC bugs for non-free data in main ...)

2006-09-09 Thread Andreas Barth
* Roberto Gordo Saez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060909 11:22]: But there is something I do not understand. Why this list is not the place to put disagreements on the way legal issues are handled? There is nothing wrong with discussing legal issues in debian-legal, try to get a common understanding,

Licence for a file in tstat: is it compatible with Debian?

2006-09-09 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi all, while in RFS-phase of the package tstat has come out that file ``erf.c'' has licence near to BSD, and that its 4th clause is on the edge to accepted in Debian (see this thread http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/08/msg00201.html on debian-mentors for discussion about it). I'd

Re: Licence for a file in tstat: is it compatible with Debian?

2006-09-09 Thread James Westby
On (09/09/06 17:20), Sandro Tosi wrote: Hi all, while in RFS-phase of the package tstat has come out that file ``erf.c'' has licence near to BSD, and that its 4th clause is on the edge to accepted in Debian (see this thread http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/08/msg00201.html on

Re: Licence for a file in tstat: is it compatible with Debian?

2006-09-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: while in RFS-phase of the package tstat has come out that file ``erf.c'' has licence near to BSD, and that its 4th clause is on the edge to accepted in Debian (see this thread This is bullshit, a four clauses BSD-like license is totally free and even raised as an example

Re: Licence for a file in tstat: is it compatible with Debian?

2006-09-09 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 09 September 2006 21:30, Marco d'Itri wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: while in RFS-phase of the package tstat has come out that file ``erf.c'' has licence near to BSD, and that its 4th clause is on the edge to accepted in Debian (see this thread This is bullshit, a four clauses

Re: Licence for a file in tstat: is it compatible with Debian?

2006-09-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: even raised as an example of free licenses in the DFSG. This is wrong. This http://www.debian.org/misc/bsd.license is not 4-clause BSD license, since the obnoxious 3rd clause is removed: This is not relevant, since the advertising clause was removed well after the DFSG

Re: Licence for a file in tstat: is it compatible with Debian?

2006-09-09 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 09 Sep 2006, Marco d'Itri wrote: This is not relevant, since the advertising clause was removed well after the DFSG was written. It was removed from the Berkeley licensed works after the DFSG was written, but FreeBSD had already removed it from all of the works which their members had

Re: kernel firmwares: GR proposal

2006-09-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Diverting to -legal. Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:48:35AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Sven Luther wrote: Yeah, that is something which is needed. We need someone to go over larry's list, which i have copiedto the debian wiki, and find out who the copyright holder of

Re: kernel firmwares: GR proposal

2006-09-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 01:57:31AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: The arsenic case was more problematic, since the copyright seems to have landed at broadcom too, but they don't care since they don't sell it anymore, Given this, we actually should have a decent chance of getting them to