Re: inquery about "GPL with commercial exception"

2015-10-09 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Donnerstag, den 08.10.2015, 23:39 +0200 schrieb Francesco Poli: > Just to be clear, my own personal opinion is that > "GPLv2 + restrictions" is self-contradictory and thus possibly void: > I would not consider software released under such terms as safely > distributable. FWIW, I share this

Re: Re: About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2013-09-09 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Donnerstag, den 29.08.2013, 19:49 +0200 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: Am Freitag, den 23.08.2013, 16:32 -0300 schrieb Rogério Brito: Anyway, back to URW Garamond No. 8, I guess that the letter that I wrote may still be relevant. Should I try sending it? Any news on this? Rogerio

Re: Re: About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2013-08-29 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hey Rogerio et al., Am Freitag, den 23.08.2013, 16:32 -0300 schrieb Rogério Brito: Anyway, back to URW Garamond No. 8, I guess that the letter that I wrote may still be relevant. Should I try sending it? Any news on this? - Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Re: About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2013-08-27 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Dienstag, den 27.08.2013, 10:44 +0200 schrieb roucaries bastien: Could you ask also for the fontforge source and not like the postscript font the resulting file ? We should be careful and not request too much at once from them. I once had a short mail with RMS about that topic and the FSF

Re: Re: About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2013-08-26 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Freitag, den 23.08.2013, 16:32 -0300 schrieb Rogério Brito: Anyway, back to URW Garamond No. 8, I guess that the letter that I wrote may still be relevant. Should I try sending it? Yes, please do so! Maybe we have some chance of success as a Linux distributor requesting relicensing of one

Re: Re: About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2013-08-22 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Dear Rogerio et al., Thank you very much for your review. I just sent a letter to the GUST to see how they approached URW to change the license of the Base 35 fonts. Let's hope that they answer soon. this was Tue, 20 Apr 2010. Did you ever get a response to your letter to GUST and has your

License impact of opencore-amr and vo-aacenc/amrwbenc

2012-02-08 Thread Fabian Greffrath
[Posting this again to debian-legal, as suggested by Jonas. Keeping pkg-multimedia and pkg-gstreamer in CC for this initial mail, but please keep replying to -legal. Sorry for the inconvenience!] Hi all, I'd like to discuss an issue with you that I have not yet fully understood. It is about

Possible legal problems with Balder 10 (FreeDOS 1.0), although GPL

2010-01-09 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Dear -legal, I a currently considering to package Balder 10 for Debian. Balder is a single-disk DOS utility distribution, based on FreeDOS [1] and created by the authors of Finnix. I find it quite useful to be able to boot a full DOS from grub, e.g. for firmware upgrades to my mainboard. The

Re: Bug#370599: ffmpeg: does not support AMR codec

2009-10-08 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Thanks for raising this up, Andres and Reinhard! Maybe we should add to this discussion that we already enable GPL-only components in the Debian ffmpeg packages, so all the resulting libraries are under GPL (instead of LGPL) [NB: versions 2.X] already. -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr

Re: Bug#370599: ffmpeg: does not support AMR codec

2009-10-08 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Another BTW: The gst-plugins-ugly0.10 package will have the opencore-amr plugins enabled in the next upload. The maintainer doesn't seem to see any objection with the gstreamer license (which is LGPL2+). slomo? -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für

[libdts] New upstrean version (0.0.5) available, but...

2008-05-18 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Package: libdts Version: 0.0.2-svn-2 Severity: wishlist Hi all, on the VideoLAN upstream website [1] there is a new release (0.0.5) of libdca available. This is the library source code that builds libdts AFAIK. However, next to the link to the tarball download the following warning can be

bring back H.261 encoding

2008-04-18 Thread Fabian Greffrath
the built-in H.261 encoder in ffmpeg packages? Cheers, Fabian -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT) Universitätsstr. 150, IB 3/134 D-44780 Bochum Telefon: +49 (0)234 / 32-26334 Fax: +49 (0)234 / 32-14227 E-Mail

Re: Bug#423683: msttcorefonts: Windows Vista Fonts available legally for free

2007-05-14 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Montag, den 14.05.2007, 13:25 +0200 schrieb Thijs Kinkhorst: I've reviewed the licence, and I'm afraid it's a bit more bothered than that of the ms core fonts for the web: You may use the software only to view and print files created with Microsoft Office software. You may not use the

ITP: rott -- Rise of the Triad: The HUNT begins

2007-02-23 Thread Fabian Greffrath
package: wnpp severity: wishlist Package name : rott Version: 1.0 Upstream Author: Apogee Software, Ltd. URL: http://www.3drealms.com/rott/ (original) http://icculus.org/rott/ (Linux port) License: GPL Description: Rise of the

Re: Bug#412063: ITP: rott -- Rise of the Triad: The HUNT begins

2007-02-23 Thread Fabian Greffrath
That zip does not contain that file: Sorry, you are right. It is contained in the `ROTTSW13.SHR' file which is just another zip file. Find attached the full VENDOR.DOC. Rise of the Triad: The HUNT Begins Copyright 1994, 1995 Apogee Software, Ltd. P.O. Box 496389, Garland, TX 75049, TEL:

Re: Bug#412063: ITP: rott -- Rise of the Triad: The HUNT begins

2007-02-23 Thread Fabian Greffrath
A quick glance showed me nothing that seemed to prevent downloading the data files from the ftp site, but it does bring up the question of whether the port of the main program was possible without violating [6][d] or the equivelent clause in the EULA for the non-sharewhare version of the

ttf-tuffy: The Tuffy Font Family

2006-12-01 Thread Fabian Greffrath
package: wnpp severity: wishlist Package name: ttf-tuffy Version : 20050130 Upstream Author : Thatcher Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://tulrich.com/fonts/ License : Public Domain Description : The Tuffy Font Family In the tarball