Re: Fwd: Re: RFS: wmaker

2011-11-19 Thread Hendrik Weimer
"Bernhard R. Link" writes: > * Hendrik Weimer [15 15:50]: >> US government works are only in the public domain when distributed >> within the US. In all other countries that have signed the Berne >> Convention you still need a license, which should also apply to many >> Debian mirrors. > > I

Re: Fwd: Re: RFS: wmaker

2011-11-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Hendrik Weimer [15 15:50]: > US government works are only in the public domain when distributed > within the US. In all other countries that have signed the Berne > Convention you still need a license, which should also apply to many > Debian mirrors. It's a bit more complicated. As far as

Re: Fwd: Re: RFS: wmaker

2011-11-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 09:49:47AM -0500, Hendrik Weimer a écrit : > Charles Plessy writes: > > > The public-domain short name is reserved for cases where the work is > > really in the public domain in the strict legal sense of it; this is a > > rare case (for instance, some works of U. S. govern

Re: Fwd: Re: RFS: wmaker

2011-11-15 Thread Hendrik Weimer
Charles Plessy writes: > The public-domain short name is reserved for cases where the work is > really in the public domain in the strict legal sense of it; this is a > rare case (for instance, some works of U. S. government employees). US government works are only in the public domain when dist

Re: Fwd: Re: RFS: wmaker

2011-11-15 Thread Rodolfo kix Garcia
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:24:42 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 08:50:43AM +0100, Rodolfo kix Garcia a écrit : I am not sure if I can use the "WTFPL-1" license in the "License" field. In the file "http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/"; are the possible licenses to use, and of co

Re: Fwd: Re: RFS: wmaker

2011-11-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 08:50:43AM +0100, Rodolfo kix Garcia a écrit : > > I am not sure if I can use the "WTFPL-1" license in the "License" > field. In the file "http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/"; are the possible > licenses to use, and of course, WTFPL-1 license is not included. Dear Rodolfo,

Re: Fwd: Re: RFS: wmaker

2011-11-15 Thread Rodolfo kix Garcia
On 15/11/2011 3:13, Hendrik Weimer wrote: > Rodolfo kix Garcia writes: > >> Copyright: 1997, Marco van Hylckama Vlieg >> License: public-domain They may be >> distributed freely and/or modified as long as the original Author >> is mentioned! > > This is different from public domain. Just use a

Re: Fwd: Re: RFS: wmaker

2011-11-14 Thread Hendrik Weimer
Rodolfo kix Garcia writes: > Copyright: 1997, Marco van Hylckama Vlieg > License: public-domain > They may be distributed freely and/or modified as long as the original > Author is mentioned! This is different from public domain. Just use a generic name such as "attribution" instead for the f

Fwd: Re: RFS: wmaker

2011-11-14 Thread Rodolfo kix Garcia
Hello, I am trying to upload a new version of wmaker package. I wrote two sections as "public-domain" in the copyright file (converting the file to DEP-5). When I put the package at mentors, Paul made me a comment about it. Can you help us? The package is at mentors, and the problem (forwarded ma