Hi MJ,
I want to respond to a few points you raise below. I am not responding to
all of the points you raise because I'd be in danger of just
paraphrasing my own long note again if I did. I'd rather see other
people responding with fresh insights and opinions.
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, MJ Ray
Koen Holtman wrote:
> [...] For Debian I hope that this note will help Debian close
> "Bug#509287: afio: license is non-free". So I would like to invite
> debian-legal to read the note and discuss what it means for the afio
> package bug.
In general, I am unhappy with how the issues have been p
Koen Holtman writes:
> It is not always morally right to treat copyrighted works in a 'free'
> way, just because the legal risks of doing so are low. But in the
> case of afio I believe treating it as 'free' it is definitely morally
> right, because this what the authors intended.
Thank you ver
Hi Koen,
Thanks for taking the time to prepare this. I am happy to hear that you've
made contact with the original author; I for one think this completely
resolves the question raised by the Fedora folks (but then, I didn't think
that was much of an issue originally, either).
I'm going to skip s
Dear All,
Acting as the upstream afio maintainer I just finished a LONG note on the
license status of afio. The note includes a clarifying comment by Mark
Brukhartz, the author of the original afio license text.
I hope that this note will help the afio user community, by informing
the user comm
Dear All,
As the afio upstream maintainer I am currently working off-list with some
people to clarify the background the afio license text, how and when it got
updated and interpreted, and what were the historical intentions of the authors
involved. We are making some progress.
I expect that
Hi all,
Few comments below...
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:00:16 +0100 Erik Schanze wrote:
>
> [...]
> > I got a Bug against package "afio" because of licence problems.
> > Please see http://bugs.debian.org/509287.
> >
> > There was already a similar Bug
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