Re: CC's responses to v3draft comments

2006-09-25 Thread MJ Ray
Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did anyone read Creative Commons response to comments on CC-v3 draft(s)? A PDF file was sent to the cc-licenses mailing list and can be found here: http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2006-September/004027.html I have not yet read them. I have

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

2006-09-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 24 septembre 2006 à 23:32 +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : Jörg Schilling interprets this restriction as implied by trademark law in his country. I don't know whether his interpretation is a legally valid one (IANAL), even though I've heard of cases where courts prevented the

Re: RFC: Ermapper ECW multi-licenses (long)

2006-09-25 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 12:20:59PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: Background: ECW is a prioprietary (patented) compressed image format quite used in GIS applications. Ermapper recently released its SDK under a multi-license here included. It would

Vicam driver appears to contain misappropriated code

2006-09-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
In the Linux kernel, drivers/media/video/usbvideo/vicam.c contains *long* sequences which appear to have been lifted from some other driver without permission or attribution, probably by wire-sniffing. Not short sequences, really long ones. This is not just nondistributable, it's actually

Re: Vicam driver appears to contain misappropriated code

2006-09-25 Thread Michael Poole
Nathanael Nerode writes: In the Linux kernel, drivers/media/video/usbvideo/vicam.c contains *long* sequences which appear to have been lifted from some other driver without permission or attribution, probably by wire-sniffing. Not short sequences, really long ones. This is not just

Re: Vicam driver appears to contain misappropriated code

2006-09-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
posted mailed Michael Poole wrote: Nathanael Nerode writes: In the Linux kernel, drivers/media/video/usbvideo/vicam.c contains *long* sequences which appear to have been lifted from some other driver without permission or attribution, probably by wire-sniffing. Not short sequences,

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

2006-09-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Josselin Mouette wrote: Le dimanche 24 septembre 2006 à 23:32 +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : snip Replacing the text by a 'this software cannot return schily because it would infringe on Jörg Schilling's trademark' notice - or no notice at all - would seem like a fine solution.

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public domain, take ∞

2006-09-25 Thread Daniel Gimpelevich
Greetings! I'm fully aware that the opinions stated on this list have no bearing on anything, but I would still like to ask whether anyone here might have any ideas for improving the wording of the following license header: #!bin/bash # # Let this be known to all concerned: It is the specific

Re: public domain, take ?$B!g

2006-09-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 10:56:27AM -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: Greetings! I'm fully aware that the opinions stated on this list have no bearing on anything, but I would still like to ask whether anyone here might have any ideas for improving the wording of the following license header:

Re: CC's responses to v3draft comments

2006-09-25 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:06:28 -0400 Nathanael Nerode wrote: Francesco Poli wrote: [...] And the response is: | This argument can certainly be made. CC does not feel that it, as | license steward, should opine on the likelihood with which a court | in any jurisdiction would uphold this

Re: public domain, take ?$B!g

2006-09-25 Thread luna
On Le Monday 25 September 2006, à 16:21:24, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: What about: The author(s) of this script expressly place it into the public domain. As yet said on this list, this notion of (and the words) public domain is not common to all countries and more where it exists it can be

Re: public domain, take ∞

2006-09-25 Thread Daniel Gimpelevich
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:21:24 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 10:56:27AM -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: Greetings! I'm fully aware that the opinions stated on this list have no bearing on anything, but I would still like to ask whether anyone here might have any

Re: public domain, take ∞

2006-09-25 Thread Daniel Gimpelevich
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:01:51 +1000, Andrew Donnellan wrote: On 9/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Le Monday 25 September 2006, à 16:21:24, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: What about: The author(s) of this script expressly place it into the public domain. As yet said on

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

2006-09-25 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:21:18 +1000 Nic Suzor wrote: Eric Lavarde - Debian [Fri Sep 22, 2006 at 01:52:43PM +0200]: Hello again, Last tentative: what's wrong with my request that I don't get _any_ answer? You did get an answer - check message from Joe Smith [Thu Sep 14, 2006 at

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

2006-09-25 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:49:35 +0200 Josselin Mouette wrote: Le dimanche 24 septembre 2006 à 23:32 +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : [...] Here, the restriction clearly forbids creating a derivative work that is a drop-in replacement of the original, and thus interferes with interoperability.

Re: Bug#389464: gnome-themes-extras: non-free Firefox icon included

2006-09-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 25 septembre 2006 à 17:14 -0400, Filipus Klutiero a écrit : Package: gnome-themes-extras Version: 0.9.0-5 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 gnome-themes-extras's copyright file indicates that the package is under the GPL, but a non-GPL Firefox icon is included in

Re: Vicam driver appears to contain misappropriated code

2006-09-25 Thread Michael Poole
Nathanael Nerode writes: Do you have any evidence to indicate that these byte streams contain any copyrightable or otherwise protected content? They look creative to me. I certainly couldn't write them independently, on my own. Under modern copyright law, everything is copyrighted by

Re: public domain, take ∞

2006-09-25 Thread Daniel Gimpelevich
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:43:22 -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: PS-Please fix your mutt and/or terminal config, as the subject line should read: public domain, take ∞ not: public domain, take ?$B!g Never mind, as it appears that UTF-8 interoperability between the Debian mailing lists and

Re: CC's responses to v3draft comments

2006-09-25 Thread Evan Prodromou
On Mon, 2006-25-09 at 09:47 +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Indeed. I can't see how I can discuss things with Creative Commons when their official line is that they've decided I'm wrong for reasons they won't tell me. Classic Star Chamber politics. We have no documentation on how parallel distribution

Re: CC's responses to v3draft comments

2006-09-25 Thread Evan Prodromou
On Sun, 2006-24-09 at 12:06 -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Worse, the PDF description of the parallel distribution amendment appears to describe an amendment which is less restrictive than necessary for Debian's purposes (see comment 11). (Proper parallel distribution requires the