Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-14 Thread Albert Cahalan
On 9/14/06, Markus Laire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also, it's possible that I should report a "serious"[1] bug for this, but I wanted to ask about this from debian-legal first, to know if others agree that this is a problem. Reporting a serious bug is definitely correct. Be sure to mention t

Re: License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-14 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:59:33 +0200 Andreas Barth wrote: > * Adam Borowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060914 15:55]: > > On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:37:11PM +0300, Markus Laire wrote: > > > I'm concerned about the licensing of cdrkit[1,2] aka debburn, > > > which was recently forked from cdrecord. > > >

Re: License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-14 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:37:11 +0300 Markus Laire wrote: > I'm concerned about the licensing of cdrkit[1,2] aka debburn, which > was recently forked from cdrecord. I am concerned as well, and I would have started a similar thread just today, if you hadn't done so before me! I actually mentioned th

Re: License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-14 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Adam Borowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060914 15:55]: > > On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:37:11PM +0300, Markus Laire wrote: > > > I'm concerned about the licensing of cdrkit[1,2] aka debburn, which > > > was recently forked from cdrecord. > > > > > > The curre

Re: [Fwd: Re: Problem with license of msv-xsdlib]

2006-09-14 Thread Joe Smith
"Eric Lavarde - Debian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I sent the below email already a while ago, but didn't receive any answer. Can someone tell me what's wrong? Did I miss some important point of netiquette, or FAQ to read before asking stupid questions?

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-14 Thread Markus Laire
On 9/14/06, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #include * Markus Laire [Thu, Sep 14 2006, 03:37:11PM]: > I mentioned this problem over a week ago[5] at debburn-devel but > didn't get any response. Because the hard problems that you pointed out have been fixed. We do no longer return "schi

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Markus Laire [Thu, Sep 14 2006, 03:37:11PM]: > I mentioned this problem over a week ago[5] at debburn-devel but > didn't get any response. Because the hard problems that you pointed out have been fixed. We do no longer return "schily" author ID, etc. > Recently Nathanael Nerode menti

Re: Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-14 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, On Thu, Sep 14, 2006, Anon Sricharoenchai wrote: > So I could give another example. > If the new project copy code from Qt and the project itself is licensed under > LGPL. While it is obviously that some parts of code is from Qt, and no any > approval from trolltech to be relicensed,

Re: License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-14 Thread Markus Laire
On 9/14/06, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Adam Borowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060914 15:55]: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:37:11PM +0300, Markus Laire wrote: > > I'm concerned about the licensing of cdrkit[1,2] aka debburn, which > > was recently forked from cdrecord. > > > > The curre

Re: License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-14 Thread Andreas Barth
* Adam Borowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060914 15:55]: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:37:11PM +0300, Markus Laire wrote: > > I'm concerned about the licensing of cdrkit[1,2] aka debburn, which > > was recently forked from cdrecord. > > > > The current license seems to be GPLv2 + additional restrictions

Re: License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:37:11PM +0300, Markus Laire wrote: > I'm concerned about the licensing of cdrkit[1,2] aka debburn, which > was recently forked from cdrecord. > > The current license seems to be GPLv2 + additional restrictions which > IMHO is not right because GPLv2 doesn't allow any suc

License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-14 Thread Markus Laire
I'm concerned about the licensing of cdrkit[1,2] aka debburn, which was recently forked from cdrecord. The current license seems to be GPLv2 + additional restrictions which IMHO is not right because GPLv2 doesn't allow any such additional restrictions. An example from libscg/scsi-linux-ata.c[3]:

Re: Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-14 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006, Don Armstrong wrote: > Ah; my understanding was that there were some parts (the xmms header > files?) which were GPL only, and that the rest of libmms was licenced > under the LGPL, which is what I retitled the bug to clarify. [If > that's actually the case, as debian/copyrigh