Re: Bug#68256: License problems with TinyMUSH

2003-08-19 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 15:32 US/Eastern, Joe Drew wrote: Err, if your best effort is um, no phone, no internet access, no ability to inform anybody I don't see how this fails the desert island test. I apologize. I meant to type chinese dissident test but my fingers disconnected from my

Re: Bug#68256: License problems with TinyMUSH

2003-08-18 Thread Joel Baker
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:31:00PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 15:21, Joel Baker wrote: The TinyMUSH package is not DFSG-free, Agreed. There are some additional problems: * TinyMUSH 3.0 Copyright * * Users of this software incur the obligation to make their

Re: Bug#68256: License problems with TinyMUSH

2003-08-18 Thread Joe Drew
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 18:31, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 15:21, Joel Baker wrote: * TinyMUSH 3.0 Copyright * * Users of this software incur the obligation to make their best efforts to * inform the authors of noteworthy uses of this software. Fails the desert island

Re: Bug#68256: License problems with TinyMUSH

2003-08-18 Thread Jeremy Hankins
Joe Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 18:31, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 15:21, Joel Baker wrote: * TinyMUSH 3.0 Copyright * * Users of this software incur the obligation to make their best efforts to * inform the authors of noteworthy uses of this

Bug#68256: License problems with TinyMUSH

2003-08-17 Thread Joel Baker
The TinyMUSH package is not DFSG-free, and probably never can be (at least, not without a near-complete rewrite). Speaking as someone who has been involved with the source code various TinyMUSH servers for ten years, who lives with one of the listed authors of the 2.2 version, and who is one of

Re: Bug#68256: License problems with TinyMUSH

2003-08-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 15:21, Joel Baker wrote: The TinyMUSH package is not DFSG-free, Agreed. There are some additional problems: * TinyMUSH 3.0 Copyright * * Users of this software incur the obligation to make their best efforts to * inform the authors of noteworthy uses of this software.