OpenCascade license opinion

2007-12-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I just sent in an RFP for Salomé, a very nice and highly capable engineering tool under LGPL. It depends on OpenCascade, which has a license which sounds DFSG-free. The license is at: http://www.opencascade.org/occ/license/ There were two discussions on the OpenCascade license last

Re: OpenCascade license opinion

2007-12-19 Thread John Halton
On 19/12/2007, Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The preamble is: In short, Open CASCADE Technology Public License is LGPL-like with certain differences. You are permitted to use Open CASCADE Technology within commercial environments and you are obliged to

Artistic License 2.0

2007-12-19 Thread Allison Randal
The Artistic License 2.0 has been approved by the OSI, but not explicitly reviewed by debian-legal. Would you like to review it? This is currently relevant as the Parrot project is adopting the orphaned Debian Parrot packages, and is now licensed only under the Artistic License 2.0. (The

Re: Artistic License 2.0

2007-12-19 Thread John Halton
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 09:47:26PM +0200, Allison Randal wrote: The Artistic License 2.0 has been approved by the OSI, but not explicitly reviewed by debian-legal. Would you like to review it? The text of the licence is at: http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0 Looking at some of

Re: Artistic License 2.0

2007-12-19 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:47:26 +0200 Allison Randal wrote: The Artistic License 2.0 has been approved by the OSI, but not explicitly reviewed by debian-legal. Would you like to review it? Before reading the license terms in detail, I gave a look at the FSF license list[1], which states: |

Freedom of Parrot (was: Artistic License 2.0)

2007-12-19 Thread Ben Finney
Allison Randal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Artistic License 2.0 has been approved by the OSI, but not explicitly reviewed by debian-legal. Would you like to review it? Debian considers the freedom of works, not license texts in isolation. This is currently relevant as the Parrot project is

Re: Artistic License 2.0 (was: Freedom of Parrot)

2007-12-19 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Wednesday 19 December 2007 04:49:04 pm Ben Finney wrote: Allison Randal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Artistic License 2.0 has been approved by the OSI, but not explicitly reviewed by debian-legal. Would you like to review it? Debian considers the freedom of works, not license texts in

Re: Freedom of Parrot (was: Artistic License 2.0)

2007-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:49:04AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Allison Randal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Artistic License 2.0 has been approved by the OSI, but not explicitly reviewed by debian-legal. Would you like to review it? Debian considers the freedom of works, not license texts in

Re: OpenCascade license opinion

2007-12-19 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Adam C Powell IV a écrit : Greetings, I just sent in an RFP for Salomé, a very nice and highly capable engineering tool under LGPL. That was my goal when I started to look at packaging OpenCascade. But there is a lot of work, as Salomé depends on a lot of libraries or softwares that are not

Re: Artistic License 2.0

2007-12-19 Thread Ben Finney
Sean Kellogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 19 December 2007 04:49:04 pm Ben Finney wrote: Debian considers the freedom of works, not license texts in isolation. Debian-legal reviews license text in isolation all the time. Perhaps. However, Debian isn't interested in freedom of

Freedom of licenses, freedom of works (was: Freedom of Parrot)

2007-12-19 Thread Ben Finney
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:49:04AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Debian considers the freedom of works, not license texts in isolation. Please stop saying this. To the extent that it is true, it's also not relevant. Debian *does* consider the