Re: GFDL and cover texts

2007-08-06 Thread Evan Prodromou
On Tue, 2007-07-08 at 14:15 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Those documents cover the issues you're raising; there's nothing I've > said in the above that isn't already addressed by the documents Evan > pointed you to. I've started a wiki page about the history of Debian and the FDL; it may be useful

Re: GFDL and cover texts

2007-08-06 Thread Ben Finney
My apologies, there were some inaccuracies in my initial reply, and it was more dismissive than it should have been. "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 06/08/07, Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml > > h

Re: GFDL and cover texts

2007-08-06 Thread Ben Finney
"Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The position statement and the vote all conflate invariant sections > with cover texts and dedications as if exactly the same arguments > against invariant sections applied to a cover text like "a gnu > manual". Why are three words enough to

Re: GFDL and cover texts

2007-08-06 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 06/08/07, Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-06-08 at 08:58 -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > > Can I get an explanation of why Debian considers a GFDL manual with > > cover texts non-free? > > http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml > http://www.d

Re: About MIRACL license

2007-08-06 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dererk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I need help about a software that's license under MIRACL license. > > Here is the current text of the license at that URL: General notes: No grant of freedom to redistribute. Fails DFSG§1 and makes the work by defau

MIRACL license text (was: About MIRACL license)

2007-08-06 Thread Ben Finney
dererk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need help about a software that's license under MIRACL license. > http://www.shamus.ie/index.php?page=Downloads When asking for a discussion of a license text, please post the full text here so the discussion and license text are both found together in the l

About MIRACL license

2007-08-06 Thread dererk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello there! I need help about a software that's license under MIRACL license [1]. I'm talking with it's developer, but he seems not to be interested in changing it[2]. I think it can't be even used in non-free branches :-( Thanks in advance, D

Re: GFDL and cover texts

2007-08-06 Thread Evan Prodromou
On Mon, 2007-06-08 at 08:58 -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > Can I get an explanation of why Debian considers a GFDL manual with > cover texts non-free? http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001 http://www.google.com/search?q=GFDL+D

Re: Last word on GPL 3, LGPL 3 etc

2007-08-06 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Shriramana Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Did I miss the thread or has there not been any official announcement > of the position of the Debian Project about the DFSG-freeness of the > GPL 3 and LGPL 3? How about the AGPL? Seems to me that GPL 3 being > DFSG free is a very important thing re

GFDL and cover texts

2007-08-06 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Can I get an explanation of why Debian considers a GFDL manual with cover texts non-free? For fuck's sakes... what's the big deal with a couple of unmodifiable sentences? - Jordi G. H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC