New bugs filed regarding non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds

2006-10-02 Thread Simon Josefsson
Hi all. A few months ago, I went over the package list manually to find IETF I-D's, but I finally wrote a simplistic script to do this for me: #!/bin/sh

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

2006-10-02 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi all, I'm sorry but 'till now I didn't have time to keep up with this problem OTOH you have a different problem: a four clauses BSD-like license is not compatible with GPL-licensed code, and this means that the package is not distributable at all. So, what do I have to do now? Should I get

Re: License review request

2006-10-02 Thread Robinson Tryon
Those links are dead for me. I found some other urls in /misc -- are they the same license? (in the future, please include the full text of licenses in the body of email requests -- urls often change, but debian-legal is archived all over the place)

Freeness of current draft of GNU SFDLv1

2006-10-02 Thread Joe Smith
The folowng is ann analysys of the DFSG freeness of the current draft of the GNU SFDL. I was only looking to see if the problems with the current FDL are resolved by the SFDL. There may be new problems that I did not notice. I used Manoj's draft position statement to identify the problems with

Re: Object Management Group redistributable files

2006-10-02 Thread Thomas Girard
Hi Francecsco, On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 10:45:32PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: The binary portability requirement implies that a user can take the generated stub and associated files (helpers, holders, etc.) that were generated using a particular vendor's IDL compiler, and use them on

OSSAL/CC license of xMule parts

2006-10-02 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hello, I'm currently preparing an updated xMule package and found a statement, which sounds a bit problematic. But I'm not a lawyer, so I ask you. E.g. xLibs/DynPrefs/DynamicPreferences.cpp states: // This file is dually licensed under the terms of the following licenses: // * Primary License:

Re: OSSAL/CC license of xMule parts

2006-10-02 Thread Gervase Markham
Daniel Leidert wrote: I'm not sure of any of these licenses is DFSG-free. AFAIK the CC licenses are considered non-free and I'm concerned about the OSSAL too (that forbids linking against GPLed libraries). And the exceptions don't seem to allow Debian to link against GPLed libraries. Can you

Public discussion time for Creative Commons 3.0 license draft coming to a close

2006-10-02 Thread Evan Prodromou
Hi, everyone. Pardon the wide distribution, but I wanted to make sure I didn't miss anyone. As some of you know [1], a workgroup within Debian cooperating with Creative Commons [2] to make some of their licenses compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines [3] so that CC-licensed works

Re: New bugs filed regarding non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds

2006-10-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 05:49:16PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: Some of these documents MAY be freely available -- check with the author -- but as far as I could see, in no case was this noted in the copyright file, so I'm assuming they are redistributed based on the IETF license, which I

New draft of GFDL and GSFDL

2006-10-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Time to see what we would need to change to make it DFSG-free. On a quick readthrough of the SFDL, it looks like this to me: * Unlike the GFDL, no Invariant Sections or Cover Texts. And they can't be added, so it doesn't break copyleft. * Transparent and Opaque definitions look OK this time. *