Re: Free Download End User License Agreement

1999-12-06 Thread Zygo Blaxell
On Thu, 02 Dec 1999 15:34:05 -0500, Erich Forler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me, then, that we need a debian-legal-private list. I dunno how we'd handle subscription, etc., since obviously not all developers are interested in -legal issues. This would definitely make it easier to

Re: From Corel on the EULA

1999-12-03 Thread Zygo Blaxell
In debian.devel.legal, you wrote: --=20 The address in the headers is not the poster's real email address. Do no= t send private mail to the poster using your mailer's reply feature. CC's of = mail=20 to mailing lists are OK. Problem reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED]= . =20 The poster's

Re: Corel's apt frontend

1999-11-04 Thread Zygo Blaxell
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 12:29:38 -0800 (PST), Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zygo Blaxell) Does this mean that as long as a developer writes their own headers, they can link anything they want to against a GPLed .so file without infringing on the GPL

Re: Corel's apt frontend

1999-11-03 Thread Zygo Blaxell
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999 00:51:06 -0700 (PDT), Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] But the GPL is very careful about how it defines program. The GPL does not define program. However, FSF has a guidline for when linking should be considered derivation. That is

Re: Corel's apt frontend

1999-11-03 Thread Zygo Blaxell
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999 16:19:06 -0800 (PST), Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] That doesn't matter. Static linking copies. Dynamic linking copies at run time, which is a rather shaky argument. Executables that run dynamic libraries are derivative of the

Re: proposed new /usr/share/doc/apt/copyright

1999-10-28 Thread Zygo Blaxell
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 23:21:22 -0400, Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: b) Downloadable by anyone, without fee, using a publicly-announced URL on the Internet, for a duration of at least three years starting with distribution of the binary version. The redistribution terms of

Status of the jdk1.1 package and grave bug #37599

1999-08-24 Thread Zygo Blaxell
package similar to Netscape, RealPlayer, ICQ, etc. Would this be an acceptable compromise? Ordinarily I'd just say yes but this isn't a familiar package to me and I note that .diff.gz is contains over 100 lines of non-documentation, non-Debian-package-specific changes. -- Zygo Blaxell, Linux

Re: [taupin@lps.u-psud.fr: Re: MusiXTeX T.75 on Debian GNU/Linux]

1999-04-20 Thread Zygo Blaxell
because they are marketing information confidential to my hypothetical marketing business, I hypothetically believe that I will ship many more units of the former type of coaster. -- Zygo Blaxell, Linux Engineer, Corel Corporation, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (play). It's my opinion