Re: BCFG Public License

2006-07-31 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Benjamin Seidenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm wrote: What does it even mean then? Which legal consequences does it have for me to acknowledge that law? Why would the licensor want me to do so - he must have _some_ purpose in requiring such an acknowledgement, which indicates

Re: BCFG Public License

2006-07-29 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You seem to be saying that I can agree with the law even though I completely disagree with it Please quote the section of the license that states that. # LICENSEE AGREES THAT THE EXPORT OF GOODS

Re: BCFG Public License

2006-07-29 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripsit Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please quote the section of the license that states that. # LICENSEE AGREES THAT THE EXPORT OF GOODS AND/OR TECHNICAL DATA FROM # THE UNITED STATES MAY REQUIRE SOME

Re: BCFG Public License

2006-07-28 Thread Henning Makholm
to those who agree with the law? That would not be free. -- Henning Makholm We're trying to get it into the parts per billion range, but no luck still. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: BCFG Public License

2006-07-28 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7. LICENSEE AGREES THAT THE EXPORT OF GOODS AND/OR TECHNICAL DATA FROM THE UNITED STATES MAY REQUIRE SOME FORM OF EXPORT CONTROL LICENSE FROM THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AND THAT FAILURE TO OBTAIN SUCH EXPORT

Re: BCFG Public License

2006-07-28 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And if that fact is not agreeable to me, I may not copy the software? If you're unwilling to agree to truth statements, then yes, I'm entirely happy with you not being permitted to copy the software

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

2006-07-19 Thread Henning Makholm
it for the source code. In order to _enforce_ the offer legally, one would of course need a way to prove that it exists. But I am not sure that the vendor can demand that such proof should take exactly the form of a photocopy of the original document. -- Henning Makholm

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

2006-07-18 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:48:05PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: You never said how comes that something labeled Debian should *not* be available as free download, as long as debian.org says Debian GNU/Linux is available for free download

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

2006-07-18 Thread Henning Makholm
. In particular, the original poster clearly shows in his very first post that he is aware that the contents is not the official version. -- Henning Makholm The Board views the endemic use of PowerPoint briefing slides instead of technical papers

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

2006-07-17 Thread Henning Makholm
to anything. -- Henning MakholmWhat the hedgehog sang is not evidence. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2006-07-17 Thread Henning Makholm
something else. Nobody is putting it on anybody. Owning a brand incurs some responsibilities. Please provide legal references for the responsibilities that you persist in claiming someone has. To whom do you think those responsibilities are owed? -- Henning Makholm We

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

2006-07-17 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Radu-Cristian FOTESCU [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 19:54 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: You are the only one who thinks that a trademark is being misused. You are wrong. You are not in court. Neither of us has the right to declare the other is wrong. You can be wrong

Re: Symphony OS - Possible violation of several licenses

2006-07-15 Thread Henning Makholm
in the iso9660 images they offer, which would also statisfy the license. I downloaded an image to check, but most data are compressed in a format (squashfs) that I don't have the tools to read. -- Henning Makholm Nemo enim fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Open CASCADE Technology Public License

2006-06-09 Thread Henning Makholm
, and as such it is a legal no-op - a license that did not say this explicitly would not be a trademark license either. The problematic kind of trademark clauses is the one that says you lose your _copyright_ license if you use our trademark in ways we're not happy with. -- Henning Makholm

Re: IBM CPL v1

2006-06-08 Thread Henning Makholm
restrained and is within what we generally consider fair self-defense. -- Henning Makholm... it cannot be told in his own words because after September 11 he forgot about keeping his diary for a long time

Re: Open CASCADE Technology Public License

2006-06-08 Thread Henning Makholm
, making in particular available to all third parties the source code of the Software; No right to sell. I think this isn't good. Huh? What the quote says is just that the redistributed software must be _licensed_ at no charge, which is just your run-of-the-mill copyleft construction. -- Henning

Re: DFSG-freeness of the CID Font Code Public Licence

2006-06-05 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andrew Donnellan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 6/4/06, Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripsit Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] Le vendredi 02 juin 2006 à 16:44 +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : 6. Compliance with Laws; Non-Infringement. Recipient shall comply with all

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-05 Thread Henning Makholm
to distribute their software in non-free on the parts of the FAQ that directly contradicts the license is not a reasonable position. -- Henning MakholmNej, hvor er vi altså heldige! Længe leve vor Buxgører Sansibar Bastelvel

Re: DFSG-freeness of the CID Font Code Public Licence

2006-06-05 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] Le dimanche 04 juin 2006 à 13:13 +0200, Henning Makholm a écrit : 6. Compliance with Laws; Non-Infringement. Recipient shall comply with all applicable laws and regulations in connection with use and distribution of the Subject Software

Re: DFSG-freeness of the CID Font Code Public Licence

2006-06-05 Thread Henning Makholm
the *legal* penalties for violating US embargo laws, I do *not* consider it free if a copyright holder tacks its own penalties on top of that. Well said, and a good argument that my previous comments in this thread actually miss the point. I stand corrected. -- Henning Makholm

Re: DFSG-freeness of the CID Font Code Public Licence

2006-06-04 Thread Henning Makholm
think so? Not everyone here find such clauses to be non-free. Those who don't are wrong. -- Henning MakholmThere is a danger that curious users may occasionally unplug their fiber connector and look directly into it to watch

Re: Proposed licence for Debconf video recordings

2006-05-19 Thread Henning Makholm
copyright blurb *itself* is retained with all derivates. Everybody seems to agree that this does not make the BSD license viral, and that a derivor is free to give fewer rights to his part of the copyright in the derived work than the original BSD author gave to his part. -- Henning Makholm

Re: infos about alien licenses

2006-04-12 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Wolfgang Lonien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please CC me when answering; I'm not subscribed to Debian-legal. What was your question? The three licenses you quote are all ordinary 3-clause BSD licenses, which are nice and free. -- Henning Makholm The man who catches

Re: Against DRM 1.0

2006-04-09 Thread Henning Makholm
DRM. Strange). -- Henning Makholm The man who catches a meniningococcus is in considerably less danger for his life, even without chemotherapy, than meningococci with the bad luck to catch a man. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: MPL and Source Code

2006-04-03 Thread Henning Makholm
code on demand for up to three years (see 3b) if the code is distrbuted in binary form. No it does not. Read the GPL. Clause 3(b) is a non-free option but fortunately the GPL also allows a distributor to use the free clause 3(a) instead. -- Henning Makholm Also, the letters are printed

Re: Mozilla relicensing complete

2006-04-01 Thread Henning Makholm
to Gervase Markham. -- Henning Makholm We will discuss your youth another time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Interpreting the GFDL GR

2006-03-16 Thread Henning Makholm
. If you have a fourth option that I have overlooked, I would love to hear about it. -- Henning Makholm Wir kommen nun ans Ziel unserer Ausführungen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-16 Thread Henning Makholm
GR which gives the developers the option of choosing betwen different interpretations. I think that this very thread is an attempt to construct some reasonably self-consistent interpretations that we can ask the developers to decide between. -- Henning Makholm The compile-time

Re: All rights reserved?

2006-03-16 Thread Henning Makholm
cannot be written in any other way), then it is not subject to copyright, no matter what the author claims or does not claim. -- Henning Makholm I can get fat! I can sing! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Package copyright problems

2006-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Corporation. All rights reserved. ... Any distribution of this software or derivative works must comply with all applicable United States export control laws. This is a non-free condition. -- Henning Makholm The great secret, known to internists

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Same thing goes for the atlantic ocean -- the atlantic ocean can prevent unauthorized copying, in the sense you're using. Are you arguing that the GFDL is free because it says that copying is forbidden if the Atlantic Ocean exists? -- Henning Makholm

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
holder's legal rights on the recipient of the copy. Where did you get the idea that the measures that the GFDL forbids are only those that enforce copyright? The GFDL forbids *all* measures that obstruct or restrict copying, no matter whether they, in doing so, enforce copyrights. -- Henning Makholm

Re: Package copyright problems

2006-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Benjamin A'Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 12:22 +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Jesse van den Kieboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright (c) 1992, 1995, 1996 Xerox Corporation. All rights reserved. ... Any distribution of this software or derivative works must

Re: Interpreting the GFDL GR

2006-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 06:28:37PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: I assert that this interpretation is most faithful to the arguments presented by proponents of Amendment A during the discussion. In particular, when confronted by arguments

Re: Interpreting the GFDL GR

2006-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Jeremy Hankins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Therefore my proposal is to narrow the licensor's-intent principle to clauses of the general kind that are problematic in the GFDL. The description in point (a) above is my best attempt to define

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm wrote: You may not use technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further copying [by the intended recipient] of [all] the copies you make or distribute [to him] But how can we explain away make or? I'm

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-13 Thread Henning Makholm
. Heck, even *on* debian-legal there were a long time where many people thought that invariant sections were the only issue with the GFDL. It took some time and some close reading to realize that the minor points are actually freedom issues. -- Henning Makholm Gå ud i solen eller regnen

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-13 Thread Henning Makholm
supermajority to achieve (just like Amendment B), and the ballot option did not require that. However, the Project did not tell us what the required supermajority was. The Secretary made that decision, based on his best personal judgement. -- Henning Makholm*Vi

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-12 Thread Henning Makholm
for invariant sections are ones that we traditionally do accept for license texts. -- Henning Makholm It will be useful even at this early stage to review briefly the main features of the universe as they are known

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-12 Thread Henning Makholm
] But how can we explain away make or? -- Henning Makholm Den nyttige hjemmedatamat er og forbliver en myte. Generelt kan der ikke peges på databehandlingsopgaver af en sådan størrelsesorden og af en karaktér, som berettiger forestillingerne

Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?

2006-03-02 Thread Henning Makholm
from source using tools in main. -- Henning Makholm Det er jo svært at vide noget når man ikke ved det, ikke? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?

2006-03-02 Thread Henning Makholm
think the you in the question was meant in the How does one fix errors sense. -- Henning Makholm Al lykken er i ét ord: Overvægtig! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-17 Thread Henning Makholm
/2004/05/msg00955.html). -- Henning Makholm I tried whacking myself repeatedly with the cluebat. Unfortunately, it was not as effective as whacking someone else. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: ICCLEIYSIUYA -license

2006-02-07 Thread Henning Makholm
not normally care much about such until and unless they happen. -- Henning Makholm `Update' isn't a bad word; in the right setting it is useful. In the wrong setting, though, it is destructive... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Trademark policy for packages?

2006-02-02 Thread Henning Makholm
trademark commercially. Permitting usage like that seems like it may be something that Debian would want to require. I don't think that this is a required freedom. -- Henning Makholm Det er du nok fandens ene om at mene. For det

Re: Trademark policy for packages?

2006-01-31 Thread Henning Makholm
license? I know that it certainly does not in Denmark, but of course that does not say anything about the rest of the world. -- Henning MakholmI have seen men with a *fraction* of your trauma pray to their deity for death's

Re: Ironies abound

2006-01-20 Thread Henning Makholm
of the work is OK. -- Henning Makholm The bread says TOAST. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ironies abound

2006-01-20 Thread Henning Makholm
TeX or METAFONT.9 ` But _methods_ and _ideas_ were never protected by copyright in the first place. -- Henning Makholm Wir kommen nun ans Ziel unserer Ausführungen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ironies abound

2006-01-18 Thread Henning Makholm
evidence that TeX comes with a license to create modified versions under different names? The copyright notice at the top of tex.web presents only the patch option, and /usr/share/doc/tetex-bin/copyright is not of much help. -- Henning Makholm Ambiguous cases are defined as those for which

Re: Translation of a license

2006-01-16 Thread Henning Makholm
required by GPL #2(c) - notice in particular that 2(c) does not require any specific wording of the notice. There seems to be nothing in 2(c) that implies that the notice cannot be given in the user's preferred language. -- Henning MakholmDetta, sade de, vore rena sanningen

Re: Translation of a license

2006-01-16 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andrew Donnellan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 1/17/06, Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Technically, the statement we're talking about is probably the one required by GPL #2(c) - notice in particular that 2(c) does not require any specific wording of the notice. There seems

Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-16 Thread Henning Makholm
do such-and-such, or else!. -- Henning MakholmWhat the hedgehog sang is not evidence. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-16 Thread Henning Makholm
EFFECTIVELY UNREADABLE. PERHAPS THE PRESENCE OF LOWERCASE LETTERS IN THIS PARAGRAPH IS JUST AN EDITING MISTAKE? SURELY IT CANNOT BE MEANT TO READ THAT WAY IN THE FINAL LICENSE. -- Henning MakholmBut I am a Sunni Muslim, the bemused Arab said. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Copyright infringement of debian's logo

2006-01-13 Thread Henning Makholm
a convincing argument for independent creation. -- Henning Makholm I didn't even know you *could* kill chocolate ice-cream! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is libreludedb DFSG compliant?

2006-01-05 Thread Henning Makholm
that such a requirement should be considered free. Why on earth do they not just license it as GPL straight away? That would not prevent them from offering other license terms in addition for a fee (or without one) as they see fit. -- Henning Makholm The great secret, known to internists

Re: Is libreludedb DFSG compliant?

2006-01-05 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Arnoud Engelfriet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm wrote: Why on earth do they not just license it as GPL straight away? That would not prevent them from offering other license terms in addition for a fee (or without one) as they see fit. They may be worried about whether dynamic

Re: Packaging a software with moving licence

2005-12-23 Thread Henning Makholm
change from time to time). -- Henning MakholmThey want to be natural, the anti-social little beasts. They just don't realize that everyone's good depends on everyone's cooperation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: License of coq documentation

2005-12-23 Thread Henning Makholm
. Of course, the license must not be so specific to Debian that the mirror operators cannot distribute the software. -- Henning Makholm Traner tænker temmelig tumpet tirsdag. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: kaid license non-free?

2005-12-21 Thread Henning Makholm
be possible to sell copies of Debian packages. -- Henning Makholm I can get fat! I can sing! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-20 Thread Henning Makholm
on this list. -- Henning Makholm However, the fact that the utterance by Epimenides of that false sentence could imply the existence of some Cretan who is not a liar is rather unsettling. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-18 Thread Henning Makholm
. -- Henning Makholm I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives

2005-12-01 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] What about changing the PR, so that FROM NOW ON, the debian-private list will be made public after, say, one year? There's an amendment proposal on the ballot that will do roughly this. -- Henning Makholm I tried whacking

Re: Bug#340705: rar support violates DFSG #4

2005-11-26 Thread Henning Makholm
is part of point 4 of the Social Contract. Its interpretation is not a matter for debian-legal. -- Henning Makholm First chapter, the plot advances, second chapter, Ayla makes a discovery that significantly enhances

Re: Bug#340705: rar support violates DFSG #4

2005-11-26 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think -legal is the wrong list. Is the license status of the software in question? Not as far as I can see from the build log. s/build/bug/, of course. -- Henning Makholm Need facts -- *first

Re: Linking clause deleted from GNAT GPL

2005-11-25 Thread Henning Makholm
the exception, then the no-removal-of-exception is _itself_ a restriction that is not allowed by the GPL. -- Henning Makholm No one seems to know what distinguishes a bell from a whistle. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Clarification regarding PHP License and DFSG status

2005-11-23 Thread Henning Makholm
to modify the | terms applicable to covered code created under this License. -- Henning MakholmVi skal nok ikke begynde at undervise hinanden i den store regnekunst her, men jeg vil foreslå, at vi fra Kulturministeriets side sørger for at fremsende tallene

Re: Linking clause deleted from GNAT GPL

2005-11-22 Thread Henning Makholm
copyright holder. -- Henning Makholm PROV EN FORFRISKNING FRISKLAIL DEM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linking clause deleted from GNAT GPL

2005-11-22 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andrew Donnellan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 11/22/05, Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These sloppities lend support to the hypothesis that the exception was not drafted by the FSF's usual license advisors. Is it really FSF software? Don't think so. For two main reasons: 3

Re: Linking clause deleted from GNAT GPL

2005-11-21 Thread Henning Makholm
the code. -- Henning Makholm The great secret, known to internists and learned early in marriage by internists' wives, but still hidden from the general public, is that most things get better by themselves. Most things, in fact

Re: Proposed license for IETF Contributions

2005-11-21 Thread Henning Makholm
the changed text. -- Henning Makholm Jeg mener, at der eksisterer et hemmeligt selskab med forgreninger i hele verden, som arbejder i det skjulte for at udsprede det rygte at der eksisterer en

Re: Linking clause deleted from GNAT GPL

2005-11-21 Thread Henning Makholm
work clause using the words the GPL software infects yours. Indeed. These sloppities lend support to the hypothesis that the exception was not drafted by the FSF's usual license advisors. Is it really FSF software? -- Henning Makholm Det er du nok fandens ene om

Re: Please review: The OFL (Open Font License)

2005-11-19 Thread Henning Makholm
, distributing both results to the customer in a single transaction. Given the wording of DFSG #1, I don't think we should consider the Silly Required Bundling a real freedom problem. -- Henning Makholm Skidt med din brud

Re: Is the Debian swirl protected?

2005-11-18 Thread Henning Makholm
very different for me. Agreed. -- Henning MakholmManden med det store pindsvin er kommet vel ombord i den grønne dobbeltdækker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-12 Thread Henning Makholm
between main and non-free in the OS serves to help people make decisions about which software to base their systems on, but who would make decisions about which presentation to _hear_ based on whether the _paper_ can be modified? -- Henning Makholm Ambiguous cases are defined as those

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-12 Thread Henning Makholm
as a compilation product of the Debian project? -- Henning Makholm Punctuation, is? fun! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-12 Thread Henning Makholm
). That, for the record, goes for all packages that just provide user-level content, where the data are not behind-the-scenes requirements for making actual software run correctly. Just put the stuff on a bloody website! -- Henning Makholm Al lykken er i ét ord: Overvægtig

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-10 Thread Henning Makholm
with the presentation. And this requirement would be a no-op under your theory that a DFSG-free license for the papers is required. Therefore I conclude that your theory is wrong. What I suggest is simply adding one further condition. For the record, I oppose this suggestion. -- Henning Makholm Science

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-10 Thread Henning Makholm
to allow derived works for conference papers. That does not conflict with the SC, because the papers are not going to be part of our operating system. -- Henning Makholm I didn't even know you *could* kill chocolate ice-cream! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: data on the consultants page

2005-11-06 Thread Henning Makholm
through Md's usenet gateway... -- Henning Makholm What has it got in its pocketses? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [no subject]

2005-11-05 Thread Henning Makholm
that). However, if you offer your modifications under the MPL, you get a right to distribute the modified work, because you can choose to exercise the rights you got from the MPL. -- Henning Makholm Jeg har skabt lammeskyer, piskeris

Re: dual licensing

2005-11-05 Thread Henning Makholm
formats, keeping the source code a trade secret while still purporting to license the raw binary under the terms of the GPL. -- Henning Makholm We will discuss your youth another time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: dual licensing

2005-11-04 Thread Henning Makholm
. In particular, he can offer the general public a licence under terms that he does not himself comply with. -- Henning MakholmJeg køber intet af Sulla, og selv om uordenen griber planmæssigt om sig, så er vi endnu ikke nået dertil hvor ordentlige mennesker

Re: Bug#336982: dh-make: Difficulties with the debian/copyright template

2005-11-02 Thread Henning Makholm
that _verbatim_, with whatever warts it has - unless it is actually false. He is _not_ supposed to try to do his on sanitizing of the _form_ of the copyright notice. -- Henning Makholm En tapper tinsoldat. En dame i spagat. Du

Re: Logo rip-off

2005-10-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd certainly expect a program as expensive and with such ambitions as Adobe Illustrator to have it. On the contrary - a specific spiral template sounds like an extremely arcane and particular feature

Re: Logo rip-off

2005-10-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are millions of *possible* spiral shapes that one could draw. Elektrostore chose the *exact same* spiral shape as the Debian swirl, and positioned the stock brush at the *exact same* point on the spiral

Re: Logo rip-off

2005-10-14 Thread Henning Makholm
in a program. -- Henning Makholm Der er ingen der sigter på slottet. D'herrer konger agter at triumfere fra balkonen når de har slået hinanden ihjel.

Re: Logo rip-off

2005-10-14 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Swedish law provides protection agains confusingly similar trademarks only when the two marks in question denote goods of the same or similar kinds. (Varumärkeslag 1960:644, 6

Re: Logo rip-off

2005-10-13 Thread Henning Makholm
§). This is not the case here. 3. That leaves the copyright to the swirl, regarded as a work of art. However, it appears to be unknown whether that copyright was transferred to the SPI or still resides with the artist, Raul Silva. -- Henning Makholm

Re: Logo rip-off

2005-10-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Amaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] /me wonders... Isn't the Debian swirl logo just a very basic Adobe Illustrator template? The stroke is, but the particular way it swirls is not. -- Henning Makholm Det er trolddom og terror

Re: Logo rip-off

2005-10-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scripsit Amaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isn't the Debian swirl logo just a very basic Adobe Illustrator template? The stroke is, but the particular way it swirls is not. Looks like a pretty standard spiral to me

Re: MySQL only useable for GPL clients?

2005-10-11 Thread Henning Makholm
such a right subject to an conditions. Therefore if you use this description to write a program, you must release your program as GPL. That is at best a horrible misunderstanding, at worst an outright lie. -- Henning Makholm ... not one has been remembered from the time

Re: Mozilla can't be GPL?

2005-10-10 Thread Henning Makholm
as necessary for distributability and freedom. -- Henning Makholm Vend dig ikke om! Det er et meget ubehageligt syn! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux Documentation Project License (LDPL) v2.0

2005-09-26 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Joe Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message It's a reasonable interpretation. The problem is that there are _other_ reasonable interpretations as well; in particular one easily imagines a court that would find that the limited-scope identifier defense

Re: Linux Documentation Project License (LDPL) v2.0

2005-09-25 Thread Henning Makholm
the licensor, we should not include software in Debian if the freedoms it comes with is there only under the assumption that the license is interpreted particularly favourably (where there are other reasonable but less free interpretations available). -- Henning Makholm

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-20 Thread Henning Makholm
). Licenses with patch clauses are widely considered bad even though they are explicitly free according to the DFSG. -- Henning Makholm ... not one has been remembered from the time when the author studied freshman physics. Quite the contrary: he

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-18 Thread Henning Makholm
. As long as there is any risk that it _will_ make a difference in court, it constitutes a burden for the licensee and should be considered non-free. -- Henning Makholm The burning swoosh shall be our emblem, and we shall laugh in the face of trademark

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-17 Thread Henning Makholm
. The difference is that if you have accepted a choice-of-venue license, the sociopath can present his local venue with proof that it has jurisdisction. That makes a difference, however much you try to deny it. -- Henning Makholm Al lykken er i ét ord: Overvægtig!

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-17 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 07:31:39PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: The difference is that if you have accepted a choice-of-venue license, the sociopath can present his local venue with proof that it has jurisdisction. That makes a difference, however

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-16 Thread Henning Makholm
the choice-of-venue clause. -- Henning Makholm Nemo enim fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue...

2005-09-16 Thread Henning Makholm
-specific parts of the discussion at http://people.debian.org/~asuffield/licenses/cddl/summary.html. Apart from the choice-of-venue clause, the most prominent showstopper seems to be that the license does not allow the distribution of anonymously modified versions. -- Henning Makholm

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