Is IPA Font license DFSG-Free?

2009-05-31 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, I've ITPed IPAfont as otf-ipafont package. Its license, IPA Font License is OSI approved, but it doesn't mean equal to DFSG-Free. So, I'd like to ask you it is DFSG-Free or not. It is TeX-like license and has some restriction for use its name for derivatives and how to deal with

Re: PS documentation file, no sources, author died

2009-05-31 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 30 May 2009 14:34:26 +0200 Rafael Laboissiere wrote: * Matthew Johnson mj...@debian.org [2009-05-30 08:17]: The problem here is that either there is no copyright licence (in which case we can't distribute it, even in non-free), or the blanket GPLv3 applies (which is, I think,

Re: PS documentation file, no sources, author died

2009-05-31 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 30 May 2009 12:36:21 +0200 (CEST) ha...@volny.cz wrote: [...] 2) It is clear that GPL aims to allow for freedom in manipulation with software. I don't think it implies that should the only source become unavailable due to higher circumstances (authors death), it must stop being

Re: Bug#531040: ITP: xvidcore -- High quality ISO MPEG4 ASP codec library

2009-05-31 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 29 May 2009 17:40:05 -0500 Gunnar Wolf wrote: brian m. carlson dijo [Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:34:36PM +]: Permission is hereby granted to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software (or portions thereof) for any purpose, without fee, subject to these conditions:

Re: Is IPA Font license DFSG-Free?

2009-05-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 31 mai 2009 à 20:52 +0900, Hideki Yamane a écrit : I've ITPed IPAfont as otf-ipafont package. You can see its license at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ipafont.html Please give me your feedback (Please add CC to me). Thanks. The only things that looks suspicious are the

Re: Is IPA Font license DFSG-Free?

2009-05-31 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
2009/5/31 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org: Le dimanche 31 mai 2009 à 20:52 +0900, Hideki Yamane a écrit :  I've ITPed IPAfont as otf-ipafont package.  You can see its license at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ipafont.html  Please give me your feedback (Please add CC to me). Thanks. The

Re: legal questions regarding machine learning models

2009-05-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:42:46PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2009 11:37:56 +0200 Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:33:52AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Disclaimers, of course: IANADD, TINASOTODP (and IANAL, TINLA). If you really feel the urge to add

Re: mono and moonlight distribution method make me worried.

2009-05-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:05:56PM +1000, Peter Dolding wrote: This is going to cause upset I know pushing all the .net applications out of mainline.My problem here is legal status. Debian has to protect all its uses commercial and non commercial a like. Mono is going to have to be