Re: Distribution of media content together with GPLv2 code in one package?

2010-04-25 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
for art. :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/neoafjroaj1lf...@thewolery.demon.co.uk

Re: Distribution of media content together with GPLv2 code in one package?

2010-04-24 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
! :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/deto1lfexs0lf...@thewolery.demon.co.uk

Re: Does this license meet DSFG?

2010-04-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
the licence from GPL3 to GPL2 (or vice versa) because the *grant* gives him permission. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: BOINC: lib/cal.h license issue agree with the DFSG?

2010-01-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
any US judgement unenforceable on me (or MJ if he demanded change of venue). Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Artistic and LGPL compatibility in jar files

2009-12-19 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 65986059fd940d55852a9fc4350fadd5.chere...@mccme.ru, Alexander Cherepanov chere...@mccme.ru writes Hi Anthony! On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:17:48 +, Anthony W. Youngman deb...@thewolery.demon.co.uk wrote: Or if they receive an UNALTERED copy from you! Because if you change

Re: Artistic and LGPL compatibility in jar files

2009-12-19 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 7fdf4c21068c1acb3ed732c0cf862c1e.chere...@mccme.ru, Alexander Cherepanov chere...@mccme.ru writes Hi Anthony! On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:03:45 +, Anthony W. Youngman deb...@thewolery.demon.co.uk wrote: Or if they receive an UNALTERED copy from you! Because if you change

Re: Artistic and LGPL compatibility in jar files

2009-12-18 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
, if not an unpermitted further restriction? While this may be a legal grey area, it isn't a grey moral area - it's just unacceptable. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Artistic and LGPL compatibility in jar files

2009-12-18 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
because that would be invalid for any recipient beyond the first person to get it direct from the copyright holder. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Artistic and LGPL compatibility in jar files

2009-12-17 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 20091217024135.af5a9f7...@nail.towers.org.uk, MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop writes Andrew Dalke wrote: On Dec 14, 2009, at 9:16 PM, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: I can't be bothered to read the book, but if it's the book I think it is, then I already have read it and came

Re: Fwd: Final updates for this Python Policy revision

2009-12-16 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
copyright, it's proprietary. proprietary == property. If it's copyright, it has an owner, therefore it's property, therefore it's proprietary. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Artistic and LGPL compatibility in jar files

2009-12-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 76e62a33-41da-414c-a485-7819eb35f...@dalkescientific.com, Andrew Dalke da...@dalkescientific.com writes On Dec 13, 2009, at 2:24 AM, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message f4ccec28-fe42-4af3-b0c0-c832a6b0d...@dalkescientific.com, Andrew Dalke da...@dalkescientific.com writes I'm

Re: Artistic and LGPL compatibility in jar files

2009-12-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message ded71701-a16b-4597-ac48-b1e0f7916...@dalkescientific.com, Andrew Dalke da...@dalkescientific.com writes On Dec 13, 2009, at 2:24 AM, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message f4ccec28-fe42-4af3-b0c0-c832a6b0d...@dalkescientific.com, Andrew Dalke da...@dalkescientific.com writes Well

Re: Artistic and LGPL compatibility in jar files

2009-12-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message e2301abde0ad8a5dfe21279f96b8fda6.chere...@mccme.ru, Alexander Cherepanov chere...@mccme.ru writes Hi Anthony! On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:24:36 +, Anthony W. Youngman deb...@thewolery.demon.co.uk wrote: Well, the GPL does allow relicensing to newer versions of the GPL

Re: Artistic and LGPL compatibility in jar files

2009-12-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
, so your choice of v3 does not constrain their right to choose. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Artistic and LGPL compatibility in jar files

2009-12-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 06db76b9-3d28-44ab-82c8-e23917bf3...@dalkescientific.com, Andrew Dalke da...@dalkescientific.com writes On Dec 14, 2009, at 8:36 PM, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: (And you might guess I read groklaw avidly, where there's a lot of emphasis on getting things right.) Sorry, but I don't

Re: Artistic and LGPL compatibility in jar files

2009-12-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 20091214220044.1cc797d6@firenze.linux.it, Francesco Poli f...@firenze.linux.it writes On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:36:58 + Anthony W. Youngman wrote: [...] That's why, actually, given the choice of LGPL 2.1 or 3, much as I haven't investigated 3 very much, I'll almost certainly

Re: Artistic and LGPL compatibility in jar files

2009-12-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
... but it was written by a lawyer ... Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Artistic and LGPL compatibility in jar files

2009-12-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message ab9c74f8aa8f5d509d7617b49633a35b.chere...@mccme.ru, Alexander Cherepanov chere...@mccme.ru writes Hi Anthony! On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:44:35 +, Anthony W. Youngman deb...@thewolery.demon.co.uk wrote: Your recipients also get *my* grant, so any one of them can say actually, I

Re: Artistic and LGPL compatibility in jar files

2009-12-12 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
the LGPL. And the recipient of CDK can strip JUMBO/CML out of it and use it under the Artistic licence as the author intended. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Artistic and LGPL compatibility in jar files

2009-12-12 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
-only because the licence of the work as a whole is the subset of the individual licences - here v3 - but my code still remains v2+. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Skype/Facebook trademark logos in Debian packages

2009-11-30 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
loosly above, talking about a work having a copyright. I obviously mean that the authors or some other rights holder (such as in the case of a work for hire) being granted a limited monopoly on repdoucing the work, among other things.) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth

Re: GPL versions mismatch.

2009-11-23 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message heciro$o0...@ger.gmane.org, Raúl Sánchez Siles rasas...@gmail.com writes Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message he7933$tg...@ger.gmane.org, Raúl Sánchez Siles rasas...@gmail.com writes From what you've said, I think the way forward is apparent. As you surmise, accepting GPL v3

Re: GPL versions mismatch.

2009-11-19 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
on top of the GPL rights (such as the link to OpenSSL right :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: GPL versions mismatch.

2009-11-18 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
(or rather, owners) can change the licences, and that the project licence is simply the largest proper subset of the individual licences, then your way forward will be logically apparent. Whether you like that way or not is neither here nor there. Thanks a lot, Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W

Re: Porting library to different programming language (dnsruby vs. Net::Dns)

2009-09-11 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
by the need to be compatible, in which case all the original copyright has been lost, and the port is totally yours. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: MusicXML 2.0?

2009-06-29 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
apply, are ONLY relevant in so far as they apply to stuff for which *you* hold the copyright. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: InaTux's Author's Choice of Terminology License

2009-06-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
to apply the licence AREN'T the authors, and don't have the legal right to apply the licence. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Is IPA Font license DFSG-Free?

2009-06-03 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
modification: The Recipient may not change the name of the Licensed Program. I've read Dmitrjs response, and it seems to me this should be covered by a trademark licence. Explicitly split the copyright and trademark grants, and you'll probably be fine. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman

Re: PS documentation file, no sources, author died

2009-06-02 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 4a253aae.4040...@debian.org, Giacomo A. Catenazzi c...@debian.org writes Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message 20090530071729.gh30...@matthew.ath.cx, Matthew Johnson mj...@debian.org writes On Sat May 30 00:21, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: I would really like to distribute

Re: PS documentation file, no sources, author died

2009-05-30 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
like North Korea) lasts for a *minimum* of 50 calendar years after creation. You can't state the worst case and then assume it applies without knowing anything about the author :-) You can state the probable best case, and then assume it probably applies... Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman

Re: php5-xapian: PHP licence vs GPL

2009-04-18 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message pine.lnx.4.44.0904171144360.27732-100...@violet.rahul.net, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net writes On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: I was under the impression that the FSF thinks that if it's illegal to link a program with GPL software and distribute that, it's also

Re: php5-xapian: PHP licence vs GPL

2009-04-17 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
/distributing/using GPL software in violation of the GPL? Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Zimbra and Yahoo Public License

2009-04-16 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
no matter how long ago is a problem there too - I think the stats say about 30% of young adult brits now have a criminal record :-( Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-10 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
, but in the Free Software world, abusing the spirit makes enemies!). Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-10 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 20090410141624.gb28...@thorin, Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com writes I reply to this separately, because it's quite off-topic and unrelated to the problem at hand. I don't want to add noise to the wnpp log. On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 09:37:22AM +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote

Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-09 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 874owy8qth@benfinney.id.au, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes Anthony W. Youngman deb...@thewolery.demon.co.uk writes: Basically he should put there (c) Hubert and licence GPLv3+. Small nit (and all in my layman's understanding): Copyright notices, when they were

Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-08 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
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Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-08 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 20090408212528.ga19...@thorin, Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com writes [ Adding Hubert Figuiere (gnote upstream) to CC, note that he's probably not subscribed ] Hi Anthony, On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:20:44PM +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message 20090408194833.ga5...@thorin

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-04-02 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
, but presumably no different from (if I've got the right language) VHDL which is used to lay out a printed circuit board. And both of them are in some cases written in directly by their practitioners, and in other cases are generated by program generators. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman

Re: GFDL 1.1 or later

2009-03-29 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
, and the other stuff you don't hold the copyright for). Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-29 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
is minimal. If, however, the pdf has loads of embedded links etc ... Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: GFDL 1.1 or later

2009-03-28 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
given you the right to use it under a later licence. But unless they gave you the right to CHANGE the licence (which I doubt) then you don't have the right to take 1.1 away. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ

Re: FLTK License

2009-03-25 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
the work. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: FLTK License

2009-03-25 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
. What is the FLTK trying to achieve? The guarantee provided by the GPL is that, as a recipient, you do not need to care what the licence is on the individual bits. If ANY of it is GPL, you can safely behave *as* *if* *all* of it is GPL, even if it isn't. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman

Re: W3C Excerpt and Citation license

2009-03-06 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
holders may be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to this document or its contents without specific, written prior permission. Title to copyright in this document and in the documents that link to this license will at all times remain with W3C and the copyright holders. -- Anthony W

Re: DRM legal advice

2009-03-05 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 49aed85f.5nvvciqyno+9xuyd%...@phonecoop.coop, MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop writes Anthony W. Youngman deb...@thewolery.demon.co.uk wrote: In message 49ae6b15.fqybgcvyp1ig7h3c%...@phonecoop.coop, MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop writes [...] Do the copyright terms of things on iplayer

Re: DRM legal advice

2009-03-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
the copyright holder's wishes. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: DRM legal advice

2009-03-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 49ae6b15.fqybgcvyp1ig7h3c%...@phonecoop.coop, MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop writes Anthony W. Youngman deb...@thewolery.demon.co.uk wrote: Not the Debian position, but more the general Free Software attitude of respect other peoples' copyrights ... get-iplayer should implement

Re: License issue on tiny Javascript fragment

2009-02-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
they are too trivial. replace if required. I'm not sure how the Debian ftp-masters will take that, but if there really is no other way of re-implementing it, then it truly is unprotectable. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal

Re: Which license am I looking for?

2009-01-21 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 200901201403.48978.skell...@gmail.com, Sean Kellogg skell...@gmail.com writes On Tuesday 20 January 2009 12:49:28 pm Anthony W. Youngman wrote: No it's not a problem at all. What IS the problem is that you are telling me I should abide by American law, when I am not American, have

Re: Which license am I looking for?

2009-01-21 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
against foreign citizens, and I think it insane of the Americans to try and enforce their laws against me. At the end of the day, what I do, I do it IN ENGLAND, and in England IT IS LEGAL. And in the absence of a contract, no British court will apply foreign law. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W

Re: Which license am I looking for?

2009-01-20 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 200901191340.03678.skell...@gmail.com, Sean Kellogg skell...@gmail.com writes On Monday 19 January 2009 11:59:13 am Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message 200901191101.08985.skell...@gmail.com, Sean Kellogg skell...@gmail.com writes Stated a tad more fairly to those who have asked

Re: Which license am I looking for?

2009-01-19 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
somewhat parochial (and ludicrous). No offence to you, but it really doesn't go down well when Americans try to enforce their standards (ludicrous, sensible or otherwise) on foreign nations and nationals. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Using NASA Imagery

2009-01-19 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
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Re: Which license am I looking for?

2009-01-18 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
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Re: bash completion script licensing

2009-01-11 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 87iqomapdk@mid.deneb.enyo.de, Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de writes * Anthony W. Youngman: The GPL requires more than just source code. In particular, further restrictions are not allowed. So having source code is not sufficient for compliance. Yes, but if I'm

Re: bash completion script licensing

2009-01-10 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 871vvbv5st@mid.deneb.enyo.de, Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de writes * Anthony W. Youngman: Is the interpreter interpreting source or pseudocode? Pseudocode? Do you mean compiled code or bytecode? I meant bytecode - along the lines of basic is interpreted code

Re: BSD license with Mozilla-style name clause

2009-01-09 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
trademark. They'd probably have lost on the grounds confusion was unlikely, but they'd've had a case.) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: bash completion script licensing

2009-01-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
is irrelevant. And when the script is run, it is the end-user doing the linking, so the GPL is irrelevant. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Public Domain for Germans

2008-11-05 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
object to WHY they've done it. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: EllisLab, Inc. CodeIgniter license

2008-10-31 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
unable to provide informed consent (ESPECIALLY if the counter-party was responsible for that inability!). Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: use of Python bindings to GPL library from within non-GPL Python toolkit

2008-09-27 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
. The GPL says you must distribute the non-GPL code as if it were GPL, but you don't own that code and can't change the licence. So you can't comply with both licences at the same time, so you can't distribute. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: use of Python bindings to GPL library from within non-GPL Python toolkit

2008-09-20 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
it on because the two licences conflict - the GPL says you MUST pass on the rights, the 3rd-party licence says you CAN'T pass on the rights, and the only option left open to you is to NOT DISTRIBUTE. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

2008-08-23 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
software means you can't run it without fulfilling certain restrictions (namely you're not allowed to share just the binaries). Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Review-request for Mugshot Trademark Guidelines

2007-12-05 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
would be liable under SOGA (Sale Of Goods Act) anyway. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Licensing of iso-codes

2007-11-28 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
is a collection of data. As such, it can't be copyrighted! I'd agree with Arnoud. The licence on the data file won't affect the program. But there's a good chance that the licence on the data file is invalid ... Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: GPL v3 app with copied GPLv2 or later source and linked against LGPL-2 or later libraries

2007-07-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
v3 (or perhaps GPL v3 or Later). I know I'm being pedantic. But woolly thinking is behind most confusion of licencing, and if people actually UNDERSTOOD what is going on, we wouldn't have a lot of the licencing trouble we do ... Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: LGPL v3 compatibilty

2007-07-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
), then it is compatible with any LGPL library (any version). Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LGPL v3 compatibilty

2007-07-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
aggregation as far as the source goes :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GPL v3 app with copied GPLv2 or later source and linked against LGPL-2 or later libraries

2007-07-10 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
of the mix of licences, the only licence that is valid for the combined work is v3. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Final text of GPL v3

2007-07-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Tue, 03 Jul 2007, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: Sklyarov did what he did AT HOME IN RUSSIA. It was the company he worked for that marketed it in America. And Sklyarov who traveled to the US and (at the time) allegedly broke

Re: Jagged Alliance 2 Source Code

2007-07-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
licence, and probably wouldn't qualify for distribution with Debian. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Final text of GPL v3

2007-07-03 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
, it might be clearer to say I fear that assertion or I think that assertion. You probably mean most native *American* speakers ... Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Final text of GPL v3

2007-07-03 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sean Kellogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Monday 02 July 2007 01:57:07 pm Anthony W. Youngman wrote: Are you saying that somebody has decided to give the US government the right to rule the world? No, but the US government has the right to enforce its laws

Re: Final text of GPL v3

2007-07-03 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 23:21:30 +0100 Anthony W. Youngman wrote: This date is NOT arbitrary. It is AFTER this clause was first discussed. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, many jurisdictions implicitly or explicitly

Re: Final text of GPL v3

2007-07-03 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Final text of GPL v3

2007-07-03 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Anthony W. Youngman wrote: And as I see it, if I say My program is licenced under GPLv3 with the following exceptions ..., if the user ignores the exception, they have broken the terms I set for them to use the program

Re: Bug#431109: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5, Deprecate GPL/LGPL symlinks

2007-07-02 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
-licence it under v3. And how do we discriminate between GPL version 2 or later and GPL version 3 or later? I think you need to, though, because they ARE two DIFFERENT licencing criteria, and you do NOT have the right to change them. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Final text of GPL v3

2007-07-02 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
flatly contradicts the law of some other country, then people living in that country have to ignore their own law and abide by American law instead !!! Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Final text of GPL v3

2007-07-02 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
bar association members are called barristers - and most lawyers are not barristers but solicitors. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Final text of GPL v3

2007-07-02 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
be to discourage people from doing this sort of thing - I'm not at all sure that clause would actually have teeth in a court of law. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Final text of GPL v3

2007-07-02 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
says you have to share the risk equally, if a distributor negotiates unequal protection then it's a violation of v3. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Computer with Debian preinstalled

2007-06-15 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
of the licence (good customer relations says you should say okay, I'll burn you another copy :-) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wesley J. Landaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sunday 03 June 2007 14:46:12 Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes That's wishful thinking, at best. Common knowledge defines fee as something involving

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 09:33:12PM +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: I'm in the UK, and if I wasn't but the choice of venue specified England and Wales, I'd probably have a very nice holiday at the copyright holder's expense

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Anthony W. Youngman writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 09:33:12PM +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: I'm in the UK, and if I wasn't but the choice of venue

Re: Bacula: GPL and OpenSSL

2007-06-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
that the addition of this extra freedom applies to all his code in Bacula, then anybody can add a copy of this statement to COPYING.TXT and be covered. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Request for suggestions of DFSG-free documentation licences

2007-06-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
has the same rights as the locals. So, as a USian, you can sue in the UK with exactly the same rights as a UK subject would have. Which is why, if as a UKian I want to sue in the US, I have to register my copyright with the Library of Congress just like you have to do. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-03 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
clauses. In the UK, as a private person it is pretty much automatic that if I'm sued, I get to specify venue. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-03 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
with a choice of venue clause cannot be a pure licence. Oh - and the GPL does NOT demand anything back, so there is no payment *to* *the* *licensor*. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: help with crafting proper license header for a dual-licensing project

2007-05-28 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
description of linux. Linux is owned by a proprietor, namely whoever (singular or plural) happens to own the copyright(s). Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-25 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
the winner if that was normal UK procedure. (This situation normally arises when a defendant tries to settle, and in the end a trial awards lesser damages than the defendant's offer to settle. This has been known to bankrupt plaintiffs on occasion...) Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman

Re: Request for suggestions of DFSG-free documentation licenses

2007-05-25 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
of a printed manual/book significantly. Given that a typical O'Reilly sells for between £20 and £40, adding a CD will also add about £5 tax to the price (books are VAT-free, adding a CD makes the *entire* *package* liable to 17.5% tax). Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help with crafting proper license header for a dual-licensing project

2007-05-23 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
is proprietary. proprietary means has an owner (which ALL copyrighted works do). The opposite of proprietary is Public Domain. Thanks as always for all your feedback. You're welcome :-) Shriramana Sharma. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: (C) vs ©

2007-05-23 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
keyboard produce a copyright symbol? Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can a font with an unfree character be free?

2007-05-23 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
of the symbol and design a copy of it using a computer, then as far as copyright law goes it is not a derivative. It may be a breach of trademark... Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: License-Question (expanded GPL)

2007-05-23 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
. Does this make the package incompatible to DFSG? No distributor with any sense would touch this with a bargepole. Your grant of licence is self-contradictory, and as such it would not be wise to rely on it... Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: (C) vs ©

2007-05-23 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
, but technical ambiguous. What character encoding should be used? The same encoding as the rest of the file. And if that encoding is 7-bit ascii ??? Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-13 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
is granted by one entity, and the restrictions imposed by a different one. I can't licence my code as plus restrictions and mix it with pure GPL code by someone else. Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Problem with LARGE files

2007-05-01 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
, or are desperate to flaunt their gratis credentials, they'll back off sharply! Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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