Re: Bug#431109: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5

2007-12-31 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 09:06:42PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 12:17:00AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: Instead, I think we should amend policy in this way: Packages under a fixed, definite version of the GPL should refer

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Re: Choosing a License: GNU APL? AFL 3.0?

2007-12-31 Thread Sean B. Palmer
On Dec 31, 2007 1:47 AM, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know whether the problems with the CDDL that 1. it does not follow the DFSG if there are active patents on the Covered Software; 2. Matthew Garrett's comment at http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/12/msg4.html Yes,

Re: Choosing a License: GNU APL? AFL 3.0?

2007-12-31 Thread Sean B. Palmer
On Dec 31, 2007 2:00 AM, Ben Finney wrote: Sean, please follow the Debian mailing list guidelines URL:http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct Thanks. Francisco Poli pointed this out too, and I replied to him in the last two paragraphs of this message:

Re: Choosing a License: GNU APL? AFL 3.0?

2007-12-31 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:51:44 + Sean B. Palmer wrote: On Dec 30, 2007 4:59 PM, Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please don't take offense for this, but I think that your needs are not so critical that they cannot be bent a little to be satisfied by an existing license. Well

Re: Choosing a License: GNU APL? AFL 3.0?

2007-12-31 Thread Sean B. Palmer
On Dec 31, 2007 11:36 AM, Francesco Poli wrote: C = Allows distribution without full license text I am not able to see C as a reasonable requirement Fair enough. I've made a note of that in the following article: http://inamidst.com/stuff/eiffel/ - Why the Eiffel Forum License? Which I've

Re: Bug#431109: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5

2007-12-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't like it. Current text seems to forbid referring to `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL' for a package that is licensed under GPL version N or later. At the very least, it should allow this. I don't believe that the currnet Policy forbids that

Re: OpenCascade license opinion

2007-12-31 Thread Adam C Powell IV
[Sorry to let the thread drop for so long] On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 21:32 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Adam C Powell IV a écrit : On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 02:25 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Adam C Powell IV a écrit : It depends on OpenCascade, which has a license which sounds DFSG-free. The

Re: OpenCascade license opinion

2007-12-31 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:20:24 -0500 Adam C Powell IV wrote: [...] Francesco, I read the Linux Today story which you linked, and don't see how it's relevant. It's another case where a license is interpreted by upstream in an awkward way, thus making the work non-free. Which terms of this

Re: OpenCascade license opinion

2007-12-31 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 23:20 +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:20:24 -0500 Adam C Powell IV wrote: [...] Francesco, I read the Linux Today story which you linked, and don't see how it's relevant. It's another case where a license is interpreted by upstream in an