Re: CMU LTI Licence

2010-01-23 Thread Francis Tyers
. We don't want to exclude commercial entities. Bob Francis Tyers wrote: First of all, thanks to CMU for releasing the data. I've no doubt it will be valuable to people working in the field. I don't particularly like terms like lawyerbomb and obnoxious advertising clause

CMU LTI Licence

2010-01-22 Thread Francis Tyers
Hello all, I'm looking for some advice on the CMU LTI Licence, in full here[1] I think this is a DFSG-free licence. === =Free Redistribution= ## Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to use and distribute ## ## this data

Re: CMU LTI Licence

2010-01-22 Thread Francis Tyers
work. So this is intended to be like the old BSD advertising clause, which is generally considered to be clear from a legal point of view. Please use the data however you want; just don't say you originally collected it. Bob Francis Tyers wrote: [ Sorry in advance for cross posting ] I'm

Re: CMU LTI Licence

2010-01-22 Thread Francis Tyers
Thanks, it would really help :) Best, Fran El dv 22 de 01 de 2010 a les 17:59 -0500, en/na Robert Frederking va escriure: I'll look into whether I can get the 5th clause dropped, but can't promise yet. Bob Francis Tyers wrote: I'm copying both Robert and the debian-legal list

Question regarding Crown Copyright waiver

2009-01-15 Thread Francis Tyers
Hello there, I'd like some advice on a particular instance of Crown Copyright which includes a waiver for free distribution. I'm going to try and make out my case below, but I'd be very happy to hear other opinions -- particularly if the waiver is compatible with the DFSG. The original text may

Grammarsoft Public Licence 1.0

2008-03-02 Thread Francis Tyers
by the DFSG). A related issue would be that I would be interested if it is GPL compatible, I have emailed the owners to this effect but have received no reply as of a week. Would anyone on the list be able to tell me? Many thanks for your time, Francis Tyers PS. I have enclosed the licence file below

Re: Grammarsoft Public Licence 1.0

2008-03-02 Thread Francis Tyers
On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 22:07 -0500, Joe Smith wrote: Francis Tyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello there, I'd like to package piece of software for Debian called VISL CG (Constraint Grammar). The licence file (see Appendix A.) is a bit strange