Re: Bug#492623: ttf-liberation: Trademark prevents modifications

2008-07-27 Thread Steve Langasek
references to Liberation and Red Hat. This makes updates almost impossible. This is not the only case of software in Debian under trademarked names that require a name change on modification. I don't think there's a bug here. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: Misuse of Debian logo for City Tourism

2008-07-26 Thread Steve Langasek
copyright-wise, and isn't infringing at all trademark-wise. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-07-02 Thread Steve Langasek
* are inconsistent with how the ftpmasters operate, that's an abuse of debian-legal, regardless of how many disclaimers you stick on the end of it. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world

Re: help

2008-05-07 Thread Steve Langasek
Tough cookies, you should've thought of that 5 years ago before you spammed a public mailing list with unsolicited copies of your resume. We can't make spamming a capital crime, but at least it goes on your permanent record. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: GPL v2/v3 ?

2008-03-05 Thread Steve Langasek
couldn't argue that distribution must be translated as distribución o comunicación pública with reference to US law, do you? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Desert island test

2008-02-29 Thread Steve Langasek
responsible for ensuring that licenses we bless as free aren't discriminatory based on geography, income, status of diplomatic relations with the United States, etc. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move

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

2008-01-26 Thread Steve Langasek
. Only if you were operating in a vacuum with no understanding of the terminology, or how copyright operates. It's not possible for OpenVision to deprive someone else of their copyright by including a statement in a license for OpenVision's own work. -- Steve Langasek Give me

Re: Questionable copyright on image file in stormbaancoureur packages

2008-01-09 Thread Steve Langasek
relevant enough to even mention? So the copyright status of the model itself is relevant to the distributability and freeness of the image. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu

Re: Freedom of Parrot (was: Artistic License 2.0)

2007-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
a license (which is in fact what we do here) and classifying it as, e.g., free, free when applied sanely, free only when this option is used, or non-free. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move

Re: About Logo License

2007-12-10 Thread Steve Langasek
the licensing of the Debian logos is being changed is because the previous licensing made them unsuitable for use within the main archive. This is generally acknowledged as a bug, but shipping the official Debian logo within main is *also* a bug until the licensing is remedied. -- Steve Langasek

Re: Bug#451799: new evince cannot display Japanese characters correctly

2007-12-05 Thread Steve Langasek
opinion on whether I believe they contain a creative element; if you need me to give my (non-lawyerly) opinion on this, please provide a pointer to the CMaps. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can

Re: Bug#451799: new evince cannot display Japanese characters correctly

2007-11-28 Thread Steve Langasek
shipping a number of these in Debian. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#451647: debian/copyright and actual copyrights

2007-11-18 Thread Steve Langasek
for packages. Copyright: GPL is wrong. GPL is the license; the debian/copyright file needs to list the copyright, which is a statement of the copyright *holder* and the year it was written. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: The legality of wodim

2007-11-17 Thread Steve Langasek
that was better than cdrtools? Who decides what constitutes a lack of respect for the name of the author? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: The legality of wodim

2007-11-14 Thread Steve Langasek
is not a German product per se. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: The legality of cdrecord

2007-11-08 Thread Steve Langasek
want my services as an English teacher, you'll have to ask me for a quote; otherwise, finding the errors in your logic is your problem, not mine. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world

Re: The legality of cdrecord

2007-11-06 Thread Steve Langasek
lives in a house on the beach. I'm a millionaire who lives in a house on the beach. I'm a millionaire who lives in a house on the beach. Drat, it didn't work. I guess repeating a thing doesn't make it true after all! -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS

Re: Ogre demos distribution

2007-10-18 Thread Steve Langasek
to rely on a perceived implicit permission to modify or distribute, and Debian does not do this. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: elilo-installer copyright status

2007-09-28 Thread Steve Langasek
for this or has someone overlooked something? Can someone please help me to confirm what the copyright is on this package? This is an oversight. Please contact the debian-boot mailing list, and/or the package's contributors (as identified in debian/changelog), to have this corrected. -- Steve

Re: CC Non-waivable Compulsory License Scheme

2007-09-14 Thread Steve Langasek
* restrictive without this clause. Is that correct? Yes, that's correct. Without this clause, laws would still exist that would empower certain groups to collect royalties on behalf of copyright holders for certain uses of works. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free

Re: Anti-TPM clauses

2007-09-11 Thread Steve Langasek
to interpret CC by-SA 3.0 as non-free, *unfortunately*. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Trademark scope (just for the record)

2007-09-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 09:32:06AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:50:21PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: Pepsico doesn't ask the Coca-Cola Company's permission to publish claims that its sugar-water is better tasting than is Coca

Re: Trademark scope (just for the record)

2007-09-07 Thread Steve Langasek
Firefox is equivalent to *referencing* a competitor's product by name in one's advertising? I don't think I'm the one who is failing to understand trademark law here. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can

Re: Trademark scope (just for the record)

2007-09-06 Thread Steve Langasek
of the lawyer's more egregious claims. :) I don't think making a calculated decision about the tradeoffs of disputing someone's trademark claim constitutes falling for it. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

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

2007-09-03 Thread Steve Langasek
? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Skype license

2007-08-12 Thread Steve Langasek
, annoying though it is. Summary: we should spend our time encouraging VoIP solutions built around open protocols and open standards, instead of engaging in legalistic wanking for the privilege of distributing software prepared by our proprietary overlords. -- Steve Langasek Give

Re: Bacula and OpenSSL

2007-07-20 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Shane, On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 04:22:06PM +0200, Shane M. Coughlan wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: I agree that the GPLv3 is not compatible with the OpenSSL license, in the sense that code licensed under the OpenSSL license cannot be included in a GPLv3 work. However, the GPLv3 does

Re: Bacula and OpenSSL

2007-07-12 Thread Steve Langasek
parts of the work; and that would permit distributors to make an informed decision whether to excise the GPLv2-only code in order to distribute binaries linked against OpenSSL. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: [sdcc-devel] Licensing and building from real source

2007-07-11 Thread Steve Langasek
the work in the Public Domain because German law doesn't recognize the author's ability to *put* works in the Public Domain. It's still a contradiction though, as Bas says, and it would be ideal to have this ambiguity cleared up. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: Final text of GPL v3

2007-07-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 11:09:53AM +0100, Gervase Markham wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: Francesco isn't giving advice to people in Italy, he's giving advice to people on debian-legal as a whole. Given that unlicensed legal advice is a criminal matter as Sean mentions, there is more

Re: Final text of GPL v3

2007-07-01 Thread Steve Langasek
) lawyers gave their clients, I can sue the program when it all goes wrong, because the word Legal in the name gave me a reasonable expectation that they were providing legal advice? No, because nobody in Boston Legal is advising you the watcher to do anything. -- Steve Langasek

Re: Final text of GPL v3

2007-07-01 Thread Steve Langasek
that are subject to third-party patents should not be. They are not legally distributable, or they are a danger to our users (and therefore distributing them may be contrary to the social contract), but these are factors *external* to the work in question. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever

Re: Final text of GPL v3

2007-06-30 Thread Steve Langasek
that were floated. Not only do I think it's free, I think it's a license that I'd be willing to consider for my own code. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Final text of GPL v3

2007-06-30 Thread Steve Langasek
, whenever the related discriminatory patent license was granted, or the related nasty arrangement was in place, prior to 28 March 2007. In those cases, the work fails several DFSG Um, no, it doesn't. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:41:46PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 02:09:06AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Why doesn't it matter? If I've been sued because of something I've actually done that infringed the license, then surely the DFSG and Debian shouldn't be concerned

Re: Bacula: GPL and OpenSSL

2007-06-09 Thread Steve Langasek
. That in particular is something that you can't do without permission from all of the copyright holders, AFAICS. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bacula: GPL and OpenSSL

2007-06-07 Thread Steve Langasek
grant such permission on behalf of other copyright holders. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 10:54:38PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 04:51:40AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 12:25:14PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Additionally, personally I don't think it's unreasonable for people to say if you use my software

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 08:17:42PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 01:13:44AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: It is a freedom that I have by default; if I accept the CDDL I no longer have that freedom[1]. [...] [1] Technically, not the right to choose a venue

Re: 3d modeling copyright and Industrial design rights

2007-06-05 Thread Steve Langasek
competent counsel to find an answer to your question. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-04 Thread Steve Langasek
license did SCOG have that specified Germany as a choice of venue? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-04 Thread Steve Langasek
Public License; I trust I can count on your support when it comes time for NEW processing. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-04 Thread Steve Langasek
that most of the people arguing that choice of venue clauses are non-free also hold the opinion that patent non-enforcement as a condition of the copyright license is also non-free? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 08:01:24PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 02:42:24AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 06:49:54PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: If you're claiming you don't get to exercise your right to argue about jurisdiction is equivalent

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-03 Thread Steve Langasek
the licensee *hasn't* infringed the license but the copyright holder files a lawsuit against them anyway out of malice. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-02 Thread Steve Langasek
not approve this, Er, isn't that what AJ's closure message *is*? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-02 Thread Steve Langasek
or someone in the n-m queue. It's not like there aren't DDs who feel that it isn't DFSG free; Steve Langasek and myself have consistently argued against it, and I doubt we're the only two. Yes, I think that licensor-oriented choice of venue clauses in free software licenses are at best a bug

Re: New Ion3 licence

2007-04-28 Thread Steve Langasek
, things you don't have any legal right to (such as bullshit software patents). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: New Ion3 licence

2007-04-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 06:48:15PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 09:14:32AM -0700, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 02:09:21PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: To have a trademark license, ion3 should be a trademark in the first place

Re: Logo trademark license vs. copyright license

2007-04-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 04:43:26PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-04-18 03:39:58, schrieb Steve Langasek: Er, businesses selling t-shirts using the official debian logo is *not* permitted. Currently, the manner in which this is being disallowed is suboptimal, but it's still

Re: Logo trademark license vs. copyright license

2007-04-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:02:11PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Further, it's up to *Debian* to decide what uses of the logo reflect badly on it and consequently should be disallowed because we don't wish to be associated with them. Your above

Re: Logo trademark license vs. copyright license

2007-04-18 Thread Steve Langasek
, whether for criticism or otherwise. We just want to disallow actual infringement, not these other things. I don't know who the we is on whose behalf you're speaking here. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: Logo trademark license vs. copyright license

2007-04-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:26:11AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hrm, there is a difference between *referencing* a trademark when criticizing the holder, and *using* the mark, in trade, in a way that reflects badly on Debian. [...] Two data points

Re: inappropriate use of Debian Official Use Logo (Re: Hinner EDV: Correct Logo Usage?)

2007-04-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:37:47AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Bart Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Steve Langasek: Please escalate this to the DPL and/or SPI. He certainly doesn't have a legal right to use that logo, I agree with Steve that the Debian Official Use Logo

Re: Hinner EDV: Correct Logo Usage?

2007-04-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 10:21:55AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: * Steve Langasek: Please escalate this to the DPL and/or SPI. He certainly doesn't have a legal right to use that logo, Huh? It's about to be relicensed under the MIT license. And enforced as a trademark, which he's

Re: Hinner EDV: Correct Logo Usage?

2007-04-07 Thread Steve Langasek
. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Hinner EDV: Correct Logo Usage?

2007-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
. He certainly doesn't have a legal right to use that logo, and there's no reason that he should be using it except to incorrectly imply Debian's endorsement of his website. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: Debian License agreement

2007-03-24 Thread Steve Langasek
. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: creative commons

2007-01-12 Thread Steve Langasek
or otherwise -- prevent some form of copying and distributing, or they would simply be public domain). Got a split personality thing going, there, or are you just naturally contrary? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: creative commons

2007-01-12 Thread Steve Langasek
with the existing widespread semantics (Hmm, why does debian-legal have so many more active posters than any other list I'm on who don't get M-F-T?) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world

Re: Acknowledgment clause in GPL code?

2006-12-23 Thread Steve Langasek
in the GPL, so since the copyright holder has not stated anywhere that this is intended as a license addendum, I think it's reasonable to understand it as an explanation instead. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: firefox - iceweasel package is probably not legal

2006-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
cause for concern here, TTBOMK trademarks are case-insensitive, at least in the US. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: firefox - iceweasel package is probably not legal

2006-12-06 Thread Steve Langasek
, and we shouldn't be worrying about trademarks for either of them until - the trademark holder tells us to stop - we get legal advice to the effect that the trademark holder has a case -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Langasek
, but I don't see any indication that Sven is interested in understanding that POV, only in tilting at strawmen; so I don't intend to lose any more time on discussing this point beyond this single clarification email. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Re: New bugs filed regarding non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds

2006-10-02 Thread Steve Langasek
in the bug reports themselves, which I don't remember seeing to be the case? Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: License review request

2006-09-30 Thread Steve Langasek
, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Sorry, no more RC bugs for non-free data in main (was: Bug#385115: chromium-data: Unclear license for some files)

2006-08-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:00:55PM +0200, Roberto Gordo Saez wrote: On 8/30/06, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For all you've said up to this point, the sound files being used could be in the public domain; in which case the only controlling copyright is that governing

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-30 Thread Steve Langasek
were an ftpmaster I would find that claim insulting. The only claim to expertise that debian-legal has is in the area of analyzing license terms and how they stack up against the requirements of the DFSG. That is an important function, but it is *not* legal expertise. -- Steve Langasek

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-29 Thread Steve Langasek
*, in 'main' or in 'non-free'. Oddly enough nobody has proposed a GR addressing this, Because voting is an absurd means of settling questions of legal liability. It's the domain of the ftp team to determine whether we can legally distribute a package on our mirrors. -- Steve Langasek

Re: Creative Commons 3.0 Public draft -- news and questions

2006-08-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 09:53:57PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 02:06:13 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote: OTOH, if CC intends that this clause prevents ever making the Work available on TPM-encumbered media (which I don't think is the plain-text reading of this clause), I

Re: Creative Commons 3.0 Public draft -- news and questions

2006-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
enough to the FDL's anti-DRM clause for us to consider it compatible with the DFSG? I consider it compatible with the DFSG because it's sufficiently *dissimilar* to the FDL's clause. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

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

2006-07-17 Thread Steve Langasek
to LinuxMagazin for future images they choose to publish. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc

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

2006-07-17 Thread Steve Langasek
of Debian must be avavilable for free download, it would mean that something is seriously, horribly, wrong. It would be a non-free requirement. You mean like the terms of the GPL? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: Sun clarifies intent of the DLJ

2006-06-07 Thread Steve Langasek
. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-07 Thread Steve Langasek
, or that having to wait for the clock before being able to read non-garbage output from a pin means all digital circuits are useless... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL

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

2006-06-05 Thread Steve Langasek
of the most fundamental features of Free Software. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-04 Thread Steve Langasek
involved in development is irrelevant, you might want to give some thought to the question of why a non-developer making demands of anyone might be seen as doubly-inappropriate. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

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

2006-06-01 Thread Steve Langasek
not universally considered non-free. Everything else looks ok to me. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 06:27:53PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: * Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060524 17:54]: So I guess you can still criticize folks for this if you want to, but I know that my own ongoing notion of best practices comes from stuff I learned long ago plus new ideas

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 04:54:13PM -0500, Bill Allombert wrote: On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 01:27:41PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: complaining that no one shopped the license around to -legal before the upload (which no one ever has an obligation to do) isn't... The Debian developer reference

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-22 Thread Steve Langasek
with the license that may have been overlooked is potentially helpful; complaining that no one shopped the license around to -legal before the upload (which no one ever has an obligation to do) isn't... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-21 Thread Steve Langasek
own free will. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 01:08:17AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le dimanche 21 mai 2006 à 15:55 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : If you have a reason to believe that the ftpmasters have *misjudged* the liability involved, This is the whole point of the discussion. Not that I can see

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 01:06:42AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: Le Lun 22 Mai 2006 00:55, Steve Langasek a écrit : On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 11:24:12PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le dimanche 21 mai 2006 à 16:17 -0500, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : Good, but you shouldn't decide what

Re: [draft] Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-20 Thread Steve Langasek
not be distributed on CDs. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Bug#346354: Is distribution of the maxdb-doc package a GPL violation?

2006-05-10 Thread Steve Langasek
, by using the HTML as the basis for your *own* modifications. But you would first have to agree that the HTML is suitable for editing, and then actually do such edits. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: Re: Re: MPEG-4 patent license issues - libfaad* and libx264* andother codecs.

2006-05-04 Thread Steve Langasek
, correct? Do we know of *anyone* who's been CD'ed specifically for distributing a *subset* of the code in these packages? If not, it sounds like the lack of enforcement is pretty clear to me, do you disagree? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Re: Re: MPEG-4 patent license issues - libfaad* and libx264* and other codecs.

2006-05-02 Thread Steve Langasek
. Yeah, they're not exactly semantically identical, but a claim that there is no inventive step depends on showing that there is prior art, and the ffii page makes assertions about specific prior art in existence. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Re: MPEG-4 patent license issues - libfaad* and libx264* and other codecs.

2006-05-01 Thread Steve Langasek
their opinion that the patents in question contain no substantive creative element, i.e., the patents are invalidated by prior art in the field. Why do you draw the opposite conclusion that it does not appear that significant prior art exists, citing only the ffii.org page itself? -- Steve Langasek

Re: Bug#365390: MPEG-4 patent license issues - libfaad* and libx264*

2006-04-29 Thread Steve Langasek
. It is therefore my conclusion that these libraries are not distributable by Debian. Subject to confirmation of this conclusion, the libraries must be removed from the archive. A conclusion for which you have provided no support whatsoever. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long

Re: Bug#346354: AW: Bug#346354: Is distribution of the maxdb-doc package a GPL violation?

2006-04-27 Thread Steve Langasek
categorization are necessary here. GPL requires the preferred form for modification, which for most people working on derivative works would probably *not* be the Word docs? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I

Re: Bug#346354: AW: Bug#346354: Is distribution of the maxdb-doc package a GPL violation?

2006-04-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:46:18PM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 05:35:51AM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have verfified that the actual sources for the generated HTML are Microsoft Word documents

Re: MySQL licensing issues again :) This time with yaSSL.

2006-04-17 Thread Steve Langasek
+ exceptions, not GPL with modifications. It is always GPL-compatible to grant additional permissions. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: MySQL licensing issues again :) This time with yaSSL.

2006-04-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 09:48:16PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: * Steve Langasek: The mentioned FLOSS exception allowes the MySQL library which was put unter GPL and not LGPL to be linked with various free software licences. The license used for MySQL is GPL + exceptions, not GPL

Re: dpkg support for solaris-i386 architecture

2006-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
binaries together with a GPL-incompatible OS is a feature. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org

Re: license of schema files

2006-04-04 Thread Steve Langasek
non-creative parts (i.e., comments stripped, normalized case, sorted), I'm not sure copyright would still apply. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: MPL and Source Code

2006-04-03 Thread Steve Langasek
includes language that explicitly excludes this interpretation. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org

Re: MPL and Source Code

2006-04-02 Thread Steve Langasek
else in any venue. You could be just as easily sued by someone in London as in Santa Clara - why does this clause add a specific burden? This is a tired old argument. Educate yourself with the debian-legal archives if you care. Or look up the term personal jurisdiction. -- Steve Langasek

Re: GFDL'ed documents with Front Cover text

2006-03-26 Thread Steve Langasek
the documentation in non-free. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Antique RC bugs (many about licensing)

2006-03-20 Thread Steve Langasek
an exception here *if* multiarch doesn't happen for etch; but in the meantime, I think this bug should be kept on the radar. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL

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