Re: smssend - GPLv2 without SSL exception - Rewrite the code, joung Padawan.

2009-02-09 Thread Simon Josefsson
Didier Raboud writes: > Le lundi 9 février 2009 15:22:01 Simon Josefsson, vous avez écrit : >> Yes, although looking at the code in skyutils2, it seems its only use of >> openssl is to download web pages or something like that. Can't you use >> libcurl instead? That might be a better abstractio

Re: License issue on tiny Javascript fragment

2009-02-09 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Ben Finney dijo [Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 07:24:22PM +1100]: > > > 1) The safe way: See what it does, describe someone else not > > > knowing the code to write code doing this for you and use that > > > code. > > > > Does that actually work? The description is a derivative work of the > > code; > > I

Re: smssend - GPLv2 without SSL exception - Rewrite the code, joung Padawan.

2009-02-09 Thread Didier Raboud
Le lundi 9 février 2009 15:22:01 Simon Josefsson, vous avez écrit : > Yes, although looking at the code in skyutils2, it seems its only use of > openssl is to download web pages or something like that. Can't you use > libcurl instead? That might be a better abstraction level. However I > didn't

Re: License issue on tiny Javascript fragment

2009-02-09 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Monday 09 February 2009 03:08:14 am Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Ken Arromdee [090209 05:39]: > > On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > > 1) The safe way: See what it does, describe someone else not knowing the > > > code to write code doing this for you and use that code. > > > > Does

Re: smssend - GPLv2 without SSL exception - What to ask to upstream ?

2009-02-09 Thread Simon Josefsson
> You can download the latest smssend source code here : > > http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/smssend/ > > To summarize what I understood : > > * skyutils(-dev) is LGPL and build-depends on libssl-dev - it visibly links > statically against libssl-dev, because the resulting bi

Re: smssend - GPLv2 without SSL exception - What to ask to upstream ?

2009-02-09 Thread Didier Raboud
Le lundi 9 février 2009 13:37:49 Simon Josefsson, vous avez écrit : > Didier Raboud writes: > > Hi debian-legal, > > > > smssend was removed from Debian due to licensing issues (#399685 and > > #487523). As far as I understand it, the problem is/was the following : > > > > * the code efectively li

Re: smssend - GPLv2 without SSL exception - What to ask to upstream ?

2009-02-09 Thread Simon Josefsson
Didier Raboud writes: > Hi debian-legal, > > smssend was removed from Debian due to licensing issues (#399685 and > #487523). As far as I understand it, the problem is/was the following : > > * the code efectively links to OpenSSL (through skyutils2) > * its licence is GPLv2+ _without_ OpenSSL e

Re: License issue on tiny Javascript fragment

2009-02-09 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Ken Arromdee [090209 05:39]: > On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > 1) The safe way: See what it does, describe someone else not knowing the > > code to write code doing this for you and use that code. > > Does that actually work? The description is a derivative work of the code; > t

Re: License issue on tiny Javascript fragment

2009-02-09 Thread Ben Finney
Ken Arromdee writes: > On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > 1) The safe way: See what it does, describe someone else not > > knowing the code to write code doing this for you and use that > > code. > > Does that actually work? The description is a derivative work of the > code; Here'

Re: License issue on tiny Javascript fragment

2009-02-09 Thread Ben Finney
Ken Arromdee writes: > On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > 1) The safe way: See what it does, describe someone else not > > knowing the code to write code doing this for you and use that > > code. > > Does that actually work? The description is a derivative work of the > code; I don