Re: OpenCASCADE re-licensing: a (desperate) call for help

2012-07-02 Thread Julien Cristau
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Re: Bug#678746: desktop-base: Joy theme is a mix of incompatibly-licensed works

2012-06-24 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 07:34:50 -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: The major issue seems to be that the Joy plymouth theme mixes parts released under CC-by-sa-v3.0 and parts released under GPLv2+. Since CC-by-sa-v3.0 is incompatible with GPLv2+, I would say that the resulting work is legally

Re: Bug#678746: desktop-base: Joy theme is a mix of incompatibly-licensed works

2012-06-24 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 19:03:01 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: reopen 678746 thanks On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:43:12 +0200 Julien Cristau wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 07:34:50 -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: The major issue seems to be that the Joy plymouth theme mixes parts

Re: S3TC patent violation in multiple packages?

2010-12-27 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 00:52:36 +, Wols Lists wrote: Any attempt to sue a European distributor would hopefully (a) get shut down damn fast, and (b) be a painful experience for the plaintiff. Sounds like wishful thinking to me. Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: S3TC patent violation in multiple packages?

2010-12-26 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 13:58:10 +0100, Rudolf Polzer wrote: Hi, the S3TC texture compression scheme is covered by an US patent, as described in http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2010-March/005439.html Lots of stuff is covered by US patents. Debian mostly disregards patents

Re: Bug#587482: The Debian open logo with Debian is not compliant to the Debian policy (RC bugs #587482, #587664 and #587668)

2010-11-02 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 14:55:31 +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: d) get the DOUL-with license changed in time for Squeeze, That's not going to happen, fwiw. Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian Open Use Logo License (was Re: RC bug filled against desktop-base related to the open logo.)

2010-08-16 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 00:54:22 -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: Hey, Let's tackle this from a different angle. What were the ongoing concerns and aren't they solved yet? Who do I need to talk to in order to change the license? The DPL. AFAIK when the logo license was changed, the lawyer

Re: Re: logo license with debian - no warranty missing?

2010-06-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 21:12:24 +0200, Pompee William wrote: Hello, I understand the fact this feature isn't currently used and sounds like FUD, but why such a clause does exist for the logo without Debian? It assumes that in case of damages implying the use of the logo, the Debian

Re: debhelper and GPL

2010-03-21 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:56:31 +0100, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: Hello, While conducting routine reading, I saw that debhelper is released under the GPL license. Since debhelper includes bits of itself in the package it manages, does this mean that I cannot use debhelper for packaging

Re: DEP licenses

2008-06-02 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 14:42:46 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: I personally think that *none* of them[1] meet the DFSG. Yes, you've said that multiple times now. Unfortunately, FTP-masters seem to disagree with me... Anyone who would like to read further details on my view on the topic could

Re: [Fwd: Re: [gNewSense-users] PFV call for help.]

2008-01-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 08:44:12 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Karl Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * line 81-83: OpenVision also retains copyright to derivative works of the Source Code, whether created by OpenVision or by a third party. I think this could threat this software

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

2007-07-01 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Jul 1, 2007 at 12:49:58 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: If it says version N or later, we should of course point to the *earliest* version to give users the choice which version they want. I don't understand this of course, nor do I understand how the file we point to relates to the

Re: Re: Free art license, CC and DFSG

2007-03-09 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Mar 9, 2007 at 08:34:30 +0100, Mathieu Stumpf wrote: Great, there are 996 songs under CC-by (2.0+2.5) if I just look at dogmazic.net. CC-* before 3.0 are non-free, CC-by 3.0 is probably ok, IIRC. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Re: Free art license, CC and DFSG

2007-03-09 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Mar 9, 2007 at 13:41:35 +0100, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: Julien Cristau escribe: CC-* before 3.0 are non-free Why exactly!? See http://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary (this is about 2.0, but I think the same problems apply to 2.5). Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: [RFC]: firmware-ipw2200, acceptable for non-free?

2007-03-08 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Mar 8, 2007 at 15:34:32 -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: For some companies I would agree, but as has been said, intel has been opensourcing a lot lately, and as that FAQ says, later versions are free, which shows they must have some concern. s/free/distributable/ None of the ipw*

Re: Is the python-sybase licence DFSG free?

2007-03-06 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Mar 6, 2007 at 14:19:19 +, Floris Bruynooghe wrote: Hello I am looking at the python-sybase software (http://python-sybase.sourceforge.net) and it isn't packaged yet in Debian. So I had a look at the licence to see if it is possible to package. I think it is, I am however no