[Fwd: Re: [SWISSEPH] Swiss Ephemeris Release 1.74]

2008-06-18 Thread Shriramana Sharma
16:36:40 +0200 From: Alois Treindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Shriramana Sharma wrote: Hello. I have notified Debian but meanwhile got a doubt: Cou

Swiss Ephemeris astronomy library forgoes non-DFSG license in favour of GPL

2008-06-18 Thread Shriramana Sharma
appropriate arrangements for the speedy debianization of the now DFSG-compatible Swiss Ephemeris library. (I am unable to help in this as I am not sufficiently technically competent.) Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Grokking Re: "rescuing" code from the GPL

2007-11-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Shriramana Sharma wrote: 2. Y modifies this program to use Qt (under the GPL), creating 02-qt-nothirdvar.cpp, and distributes it under both the BSDL and GPL. 1) Please explain how this is legal. Qt is copyrighted by Trolltech. A license provides me rights that normally only the copyright

Re: "rescuing" code from the GPL

2007-11-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
on Qt for its functioning makes it a derivative work, and it *must* be licensed under the GPL when distributed, whether in source form or compiled form. Please point out the flaw in this reasoning. Thank you. Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: DFSG-freeness of any license that fixes the ASP loophole

2007-11-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
h works under the AGPL v3 and be combinedly distributed under the *AGPL* only, the FSF is apparently in support of this world-view. FOSS commerce will be redefined, I guess. But really, I don't see the Linux kernel or many other GPL-ed apps going under the AGPL, seeing as the pure-desktop usa

Re: DFSG-freeness of any license that fixes the ASP loophole

2007-11-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
source code because they don't *have* such a location? Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG-freeness of any license that fixes the ASP loophole

2007-11-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
ent test. I'm not sure what the "tentacles of evil" test even means! What "required freedoms" can't the unfortunate under-evil-control author take away? At any rate, I don't believe the tentacles of evil test would make my Sleepycat+ASP-fix license non-DFSG-fr

Re: DFSG-freeness of any license that fixes the ASP loophole

2007-11-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
TODP. I presume IANADD means "I am not a Debian Developer". Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG-freeness of any license that fixes the ASP loophole

2007-11-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
that is provided for the usage of such work * or if the above is not possible, on another publicly accessible ^^network^^ location closely related to your activities Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

"rescuing" code from the GPL

2007-11-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
only, into his codebase, creating 04-noqt-thirdvar.cpp, and distributes it under the BSDL only. Thanks. Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

binary only files in orig.tar.gz of mozilla products on debian

2007-11-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Should I file a Debian bug? Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The legality of cdrecord

2007-11-09 Thread Shriramana Sharma
ey can't do without them... But still the wording of the GPL does invite the sort of stances that Schilling has taken. Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GPL 3 and derivatives

2007-11-09 Thread Shriramana Sharma
f the GPLv3 to the DFSG. There were a lot of comments on this list at the time of draft discussion of GPL and I did not follow them and some of the comments from that time may not apply now - to the final GPLv3 that is. Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

DFSG-freeness of any license that fixes the ASP loophole

2007-11-09 Thread Shriramana Sharma
ee? If yes, why? Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GPL 3 and derivatives

2007-11-07 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Sean Kellogg wrote: and apply the more vague clauses of the DFSG. What vague clauses of the DFSG? Shriramana. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GPL 3 and derivatives

2007-11-07 Thread Shriramana Sharma
John Halton wrote: (IAAL but TINLA) First time I've seen TINLA used with IAAL instead of IANAL. :) Hello John, nice to meet you. Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GPL 3 and derivatives

2007-11-06 Thread Shriramana Sharma
laws? Anyway, thanks. Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

GPL 3 and derivatives

2007-11-05 Thread Shriramana Sharma
to refers to modified forms of the same work and not derivative works. Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anti-TPM clauses

2007-09-12 Thread Shriramana Sharma
conflict with DFSG #5. BTW did anyone ever visit www.dfsg.org ? (Even lighter note.) Have a nice day, everyone. Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anti-TPM clauses

2007-09-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
By community you mean "global community", "community of users", "community of FTP masters"? Whatever does "members" mean? Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anti-TPM clauses

2007-09-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
's my Rs 2. Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using a CC-3.0-BY file as data file for a GPL program

2007-09-06 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Paul Wise wrote: Other packages licensed under CC-3.0-BY are in main. For example the data in the whichwayisup game: Is there a way to search for this licensewise? Thanks. S:R) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using a CC-3.0-BY file as data file for a GPL program

2007-09-06 Thread Shriramana Sharma
By the by, is CC-3.0-BY itself DFSG-free? It is not listed at http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses but since CC-1.0 is non-DFSG-free, do I assume that CC-3.0 itself is not free? I have not inlined or attached the text (nor started a separate thread) since as OP my main question is not about tha

Re: Using a CC-3.0-BY file as data file for a GPL program

2007-09-05 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Francesco Poli wrote: Shriramana, which category does the database you need belong to? I do not understand which "category" you mean. It's a database of latitude/longitude/elevation data for places around the globe. See geonames.org. P.S.: I am a debian-legal subscriber, so please do not

Re: Using a CC-3.0-BY file as data file for a GPL program

2007-09-02 Thread Shriramana Sharma
related to astronomy that requires latitude, longitude and elevation of places to calculate sunrise, sunset etc. For that I found the database from geonames.org. This database has a certain internal format which the program will be hard-coded to utilize. Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Licensing a work using a GPL-ed library under the LGPL

2007-09-02 Thread Shriramana Sharma
commercial license to Qt then that person can also use the KDE libs to create non-GPL-ed software based on that kdelibs/Qt combination. Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using a CC-3.0-BY file as data file for a GPL program

2007-09-02 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Marco d'Itri wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is my view correct? I can use the CC-BY-ed database for my GPL-ed program, right? Apparently yes. Anyway, the correct criteria is not "linking" but "being a derived work". This case looks like mere aggregation. It's not mere aggregation. Mere aggr

Using a CC-3.0-BY file as data file for a GPL program

2007-09-02 Thread Shriramana Sharma
en though the CC-BY license is incompatible with the GPL (at least this was true for CC-2.0 as said at http://fsf.org/licensing/licenses). Is my view correct? I can use the CC-BY-ed database for my GPL-ed program, right? Thanks. Shriramana Sharma -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Licensing a work using a GPL-ed library under the LGPL

2007-09-01 Thread Shriramana Sharma
licensed under anything other than the GPL? Is it that the copyright owner of Qt has granted them special permission to license their code under those free non-copyleft licenses? If so, isn't it necessary for legal propriety to mention that in that page? Thanks. Shriramana Sharma. -- To

clause 3 of GPL v3 - possible conflict with DFSG

2007-08-28 Thread Shriramana Sharma
nyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor." thereby making GPL v3 non DFSG-free? Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please check for DFSG-freeness

2007-08-24 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Ben Finney wrote: We check *works* for DFSG-freeness, not licenses. Please, if you just want to play with licenses, do so on a non-Debian resource. Apologies. Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Please check for DFSG-freeness

2007-08-20 Thread Shriramana Sharma
A license I cooked up based somewhat on the Sleepycat license (just for fun, though I do know about license proliferation). Those with extra free time please check this for DFSG-freeness: Copyright (c) __YEAR__, __COPYRIG

Last word on GPL 3, LGPL 3 etc

2007-07-16 Thread Shriramana Sharma
me that GPL 3 being DFSG free is a very important thing regarding the future of Debian and Ubuntu. Thanks. Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help with crafting proper license header for a dual-licensing project

2007-06-28 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Shriramana Sharma wrote: The project developers want to distribute a single set of source files under both the licenses. They don't want to have to maintain two different directories with two different versions of the same files with merely the license headers differing. Please examin

"all rights reserved" and GPL

2007-06-28 Thread Shriramana Sharma
such a terminology in a copyright statement in a file licensed under the GPL? Thanks for your thoughts. Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Boost License

2007-06-03 Thread Shriramana Sharma
x27;s date_time library Yes, yes -- how silly. I am running Kubuntu and have boost libraries installed. Ergo the Boost license is DFSG-compatible. I must check if I have rights to modify that wiki, and add the Boost license to the "approved" list. Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBS

Re: help with crafting proper license header for a dual-licensing project

2007-05-28 Thread Shriramana Sharma
milar disclaimer is still applicable to their Professional License. So how should I change the latest draft I sent so that the same source files can be distributed to both GPL and Professional License users? Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: (C) vs ©

2007-05-28 Thread Shriramana Sharma
f the following: --- Copyright 2007, Company X, Country Y. All rights reserved. --- will be sufficient, I will use it. Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Boost License

2007-05-25 Thread Shriramana Sharma
http://boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt attached. Please verify DFSG-freeness and add to http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses Thank you. Shriramana Sharma. Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization obtaining

Re: Request for suggestions of DFSG-free documentation licences

2007-05-25 Thread Shriramana Sharma
://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses so I am wondering whether it is OK or not. I will start a separate thread for that. Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help with crafting proper license header for a dual-licensing project

2007-05-22 Thread Shriramana Sharma
reports by the end of this month, I will assume that the list has approved it and go ahead and apply it. Thank you, as always. Shriramana Sharma. /* Copyright (C) 2007, Company X, Country Y. All rights reserved. This file is part of Product A. You may at your option receive a license to

(C) vs ©

2007-05-22 Thread Shriramana Sharma
x27;t it superfluous to use it after the word "copyright" which itself means the same thing? Thanks for your advice, Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Request for suggestions of DFSG-free documentation licences

2007-05-22 Thread Shriramana Sharma
. Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help with crafting proper license header for a dual-licensing project

2007-05-15 Thread Shriramana Sharma
I do not condone it however. Thanks as always for all your feedback. Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help with crafting proper license header for a dual-licensing project

2007-05-04 Thread Shriramana Sharma
at the end. Well actually I based my header on Qt's header. So I think it should be allright. If no one else has any objections, I'll go ahead and do this. Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

help with crafting proper license header for a dual-licensing project

2007-05-04 Thread Shriramana Sharma
DFSG-free -- i.e. product A may be packaged for Debian Thank you. Shriramana Sharma. /* Copyright (C) 2007, Company X, Country Y. All rights reserved. This file is part of Product A Open Source Edition. This file may be used under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.0 as

backporting and dual-licensing

2007-04-21 Thread Shriramana Sharma
izing some algorithms? 3. If Y adds new functionality to the library? 4. If Y just restructures the library in a more efficient manner. Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

question about gpl-commercial dual licencing

2007-04-21 Thread Shriramana Sharma
would like to dual-licence it myself, under the same terms -- GPL and a commercial licence. Now to get the right of dual-licensing, do I have to obtain a commercial licence from the author of libfoo? If yes, why? If no, why not? Please elucidate. Thanks. Shriramana Sharma. -- To

Request for help in checking GPL-compatibility

2007-04-13 Thread Shriramana Sharma
e is GPL-compatible it is also automatically DFSG-compatible, right? Thanks. Shriramana Sharma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]