Re: Bug#248782: abuse-sfx: violation of license terms

2004-05-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Andrew Saunders wrote: An even greater worry is a clause that appears to make the Project responsible for enforcing compliance with the license terms: You agree to use your best efforts to see that any user of the Software licensed hereunder complies with this Agreement. First of all,

Re: Bug#248782: abuse-sfx: violation of license terms

2004-05-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Benjamin Cutler wrote: Does it make any difference that the company is question has been dissolved and they basically dropped everything into the public domain? Yes, it *would* From http://www.loonygames.com/content/1.10/guest/ --- Around July, Crack first missed payroll. August came

Re: Bug#248782: abuse-sfx: violation of license terms

2004-05-13 Thread Niklas Vainio
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 10:42:14PM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: Does it make any difference that the company is question has been dissolved and they basically dropped everything into the public domain? I found http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1997/debian-devel-199705/msg00759.html It

Re: Bug#248782: abuse-sfx: violation of license terms

2004-05-13 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Thu, May 13, 2004, Niklas Vainio wrote: abuse-sfx has been orphaned so there is no maintainer to do that. So I will do it. I am adopting the Abuse packages, but I first wqnt to get rid of abuse-sfx by providing DFSG-free replacements for all sounds. I currently have replacements for the

Re: Bug#248782: abuse-sfx: violation of license terms

2004-05-13 Thread Andrew Saunders
On Thu, 13 May 2004 11:13:03 +0200 Sam Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am adopting the Abuse packages, but I first wqnt to get rid of abuse-sfx by providing DFSG-free replacements for all sounds. I just noticed that the abuse-lib package's copyright file tells us who owns the right to the

Re: Bug#248782: abuse-sfx: violation of license terms

2004-05-13 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Thu, May 13, 2004, Andrew Saunders wrote: Apparently they're the property of one Bobby Prince, who can be reached via http://www.bpmusic.com. Perhaps you could persuade him to release them under DFSG-Free terms? Uhm, right. I'll try that. -- Sam.

Bug#248782: abuse-sfx: violation of license terms

2004-05-12 Thread Andrew Saunders
Package: abuse-sfx Version: 2.00-8 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 To view the license terms, see the copyright file: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/a/abuse-sfx/abuse-sfx_2.00-8/copyright First off, the license only grants the right to *use* the software: For