Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * MJ Ray [Fri, Sep 15 2006, 10:53:03PM]: Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to ask you to give us some days to find a peacefull solution without starting another flamewar. But, hey, you already did it by Cc'ing debian-legal and so attracting the trolls ASAP

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
solely because of the libscg You may not lines, which are *also* present in cdrkit. Um there's some small problem there.) We need to make a choice right now: a. delete those lines (Joerg#1 said the code was GPL anyway) b. go back to a much older version Unfortunately Eduard Bloch (one

Re: RE : Re: Linux Magazin Germany, affecting Debian's image?!

2006-07-18 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Radu-Cristian FOTESCU [Tue, Jul 18 2006, 03:38:32AM]: Too bad that the moist important GNU/Linux project and the most important GNU/Linux community can't afford a good lawyer to explain you how to protect your mark. Like Henning Makholm said, it's better not having me as

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-05 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Andrew Donnellan [Mon, Jun 05 2006, 07:13:29AM]: No. The conclusion is that sane Debian developers do recognize the problem and prepare an effective solution for it in silence. In the meantime wanna-be developers are allowed to troll on debian-devel list. They should just

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-04 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Olaf van der Spek [Sun, Jun 04 2006, 02:31:00PM]: For those still playing, Olaf also isn't a Debian developer, doesn't maintain any packages, and isn't a new-maintainer applicant. He's made something like 5 posts to debian-legal, though, which I guess given Andrew

Re: cdrtools - GPL code with CDDL build system

2006-03-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Francesco Poli [Tue, Mar 21 2006, 12:18:37AM]: D-L v. JS, now that's a flame war I'd like to see ;-) Flaming aside, this is a non-issue. The source for cdrecord contains invariant sections (those obnoxious warnings about using device names), so it's certainly

Re: cdrtools - GPL code with CDDL build system

2006-03-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Måns Rullgård [Sun, Mar 19 2006, 01:50:24AM]: Sam Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These are the bits I'm referring to, from cdrecorc.c (sorry for the long lines, but that's how it's written): ---BEGIN QUOTE--- /* * Begin restricted code for quality

Re: cdrtools - GPL code with CDDL build system

2006-03-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Anthony DeRobertis [Sun, Mar 19 2006, 11:42:58AM]: Måns Rullgård wrote: Incidentally, this is what the dvdrtools folks have already done. Ummm, come to think of it, why is dvdrtools in non-free while cdrecord is in main? I am waiting for the answer of its maintainer.

Re: cdrtools - GPL code with CDDL build system

2006-03-18 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Alexander Terekhov [Sat, Mar 18 2006, 10:44:54PM]: On 3/18/06, Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Now the question: how GPL-compatible should we consider this CDDL-like license? And what's the scale and gradations for GPL-compatibility in your brainwashed

Re: changing upstream's MODULE_LICENSE string in module source

2006-02-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Kel Modderman [Sat, Feb 25 2006, 10:15:11AM]: Ehm... Sorry, would you please read the license you are talking about? You did not even copy it to the report. slmodem-2.9.9e-pre1a/COPYING /* * *Copyright (c) 2001, Smart Link Ltd. *All rights reserved.

Re: changing upstream's MODULE_LICENSE string in module source

2006-02-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Alexander Terekhov [Sat, Feb 25 2006, 10:06:11PM]: On 2/25/06, Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] exist. Md raised his voice and he has a point, though a DMCA-threat in GPL context looks slightly absurd. Slightly?! - The authentication sequence

Re: Bug#354216: upstream license patched in debian package

2006-02-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Kel Modderman [Fri, Feb 24 2006, 11:05:37PM]: Package: sl-modem-source Version: 2.9.9d+e-pre2-2 |Severity: grave +sl-modem (2.9.9d+e-pre2-1) unstable; urgency=low + + * New upstream pre-release (closes: #327588) + * added sv.po from Daniel Nylander (closes: #330436)

changing upstream's MODULE_LICENSE string in module source

2006-02-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Kel Modderman [Sat, Feb 25 2006, 12:46:42AM]: Eduard Bloch wrote: I though I have written that above. Can you please clarify at all? What makes a license clone an interchangeable license, especially since you are the one responsible for the actual license change

IBM documentation license

2004-05-20 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hello, I have problems interpreting the following copyright statement which covers the documenting of the ICU library from IBM (which itself is free). IMHO it is non-free, however it is full of juristical english and may be acceptable for main if one can extract the relevant parts from all the

Re: [STATUS] SURVEY: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?

2003-08-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Branden Robinson [Sun, Aug 24 2003, 03:43:00AM]: possible non- developers developers developers - option 1 (no)

Re: Intel's drivers license

2002-02-06 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Walter Landry wrote on Wed Feb 06, 2002 um 12:17:59PM: This rather long paragraph means that I can't take out some code covered by patents and use it to extend my favorite text editor. That would count as an additional restriction, and thus GPL-incompatible. Okay, so

Intel's drivers license

2002-02-05 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hello, recently I was contacted by an Intel employee, asking to provide support for their new e1000 Gigabit Adapters in Debian Linux. Implementation is not a problem since I do already maintain some kernel-modules packages and kernel-patch-ethernet-drivers package. But the license is a bit vague

Re: Firmware files - GPL compliant?

2001-09-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Walter Landry wrote on Mon Sep 24, 2001 um 10:44:03AM: But how does this comply with the GPL? As far as I can see, the kernel guys have been doing this for a while (see below) and the kernel is still GPLed. This was a point of some contention a few months ago. Look at

Re: Firmware files - GPL compliant?

2001-09-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Eduard Bloch wrote on Fri Sep 21, 2001 um 05:24:10PM: But how does this comply with the GPL? As far as I can see, the kernel guys have been doing this for a while (see below) and the kernel is still GPLed. Okay, so if nobody has hints for me, I will upload to main soon

Firmware files - GPL compliant?

2001-09-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
I am going to package the DVB driver for Siemens-based cards. Unfortunately, this cards does not have a ROM onboard so the firmware must be loaded using the driver. The company which created the firmware has released their Linux drivers under the GPL and included the binary firmware files in the

okay for non-free?

2001-06-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hi, could anyone comment the attached license? Is it suitable for non-free, or even contrib? -- UNACE-SOURCE v1.2b (extract-util) -- the source may be distributed and used, but I,Marcel Lemke, retain ownership of the copyrights to the source. --- WWW:

Re: license for a mix of free sw + propritary stuff

2001-04-30 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h David Starner wrote on Sun Apr 29, 2001 um 11:03:48PM: On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:59:02PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: epsUtils The GPL apply wit the following ammendment. In what way does the GPL apply? The author apparently wants to avoid It applies to his

license for a mix of free sw + propritary stuff

2001-04-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
1991 [...] Gr{us,eeting}s, Eduard. -- Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED]; HP: http://eduard.bloch.com/edecosi 0xEDF008C5(GnuPG): E6EB 98E2 B885 8FF0 6C04 5C1D E106 481E EDF0 08C5 ** No, really: Outlook Express is an excellent

Re: upx under GPL

2001-03-11 Thread Eduard Bloch
GPL in any way, the additions don't affect the usage under the GPL at all. Anyways, yesterday, I uploaded an updated version to incoming under the same license. Trying again... Gr{us,eeting}s, Eduard. -- Eduard Bloch [EMAIL

Re: upx under GPL

2001-03-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
for Debian main. MfG, Eduard. -- Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED]; HP: http://eduard.bloch.com/edecosi 0xEDF008C5(GnuPG): E6EB 98E2 B885 8FF0 6C04 5C1D E106 481E EDF0 08C5 ** #exclude windows.h