Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-31 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Walter Landry wrote: Giancarlo Niccolai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working now at this. However, I have a notice in every file stating that the file is released under the terms described in the LICENSE file that must come bound with the

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-30 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Walter Landry wrote: Giancarlo Niccolai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Walter Landry wrote: Giancarlo Niccolai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In example, I can release Falcon as a Debian package under GPL, and let users pick FPLL if they wish. That would be

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-30 Thread Walter Landry
Giancarlo Niccolai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working now at this. However, I have a notice in every file stating that the file is released under the terms described in the LICENSE file that must come bound with the sources. I think that changing the content of that file, instead of

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-25 Thread MJ Ray
Sean Kellogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 19 March 2008 03:10:07 pm Francesco Poli wrote: I don't think that copyright laws give you the right to control distribution of Scripts, that is to say, works written in your programming language. [...] There's even the question of how

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-25 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Walter Landry wrote: Giancarlo Niccolai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In example, I can release Falcon as a Debian package under GPL, and let users pick FPLL if they wish. That would be perfect. Many other programs in Debian are dual-licensed in

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-25 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MJ Ray wrote: Sean Kellogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 19 March 2008 03:10:07 pm Francesco Poli wrote: I don't think that copyright laws give you the right to control distribution of Scripts, that is to say, works written in your

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-25 Thread Walter Landry
Giancarlo Niccolai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Walter Landry wrote: Giancarlo Niccolai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In example, I can release Falcon as a Debian package under GPL, and let users pick FPLL if they wish. That would be perfect. Many other programs in Debian are dual-licensed in

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-22 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:35:16 +0100 (CET) Giancarlo Niccolai wrote: Francesco Poli wrote: [...] Frankly speaking, I cannot understand what you are trying to achieve. You are trying to create a license which is more restrictive than the Apache License v2.0, and you are calling those extra

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-22 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Francesco Poli wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:35:16 +0100 (CET) Giancarlo Niccolai wrote: | Embedding Works shall mean any work, whether in Source | or Object form, that links (or binds by name) to the | interface of the Work and Derivative

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-20 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
Francesco Poli wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:59:33 +0100 Giancarlo Niccolai wrote: I assume you mean that you would like to have your license analyzed or revised by debian-legal. Yes, sorry, the word was eaten while editing :-/ The license is tightly based on Apache 2, with extra

ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-19 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, As suggested by Mr. Paul Wise, I am writing here to have the Falcon Programming Language License by Debian. The license is tightly based on Apache 2, with extra clarifications and permissions. Rationale behind this license is that of provide

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-19 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:59:33 +0100 Giancarlo Niccolai wrote: Hello, Hi! As suggested by Mr. Paul Wise, I am writing here to have the Falcon Programming Language License by Debian. I assume you mean that you would like to have your license analyzed or revised by debian-legal. The

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-19 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Wednesday 19 March 2008 03:10:07 pm Francesco Poli wrote: I don't think that copyright laws give you the right to control distribution of Scripts, that is to say, works written in your programming language. For instance, I don't think I need permission from anyone in order to write

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-19 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:00:31 -0700 Sean Kellogg wrote: On Wednesday 19 March 2008 03:10:07 pm Francesco Poli wrote: I don't think that copyright laws give you the right to control distribution of Scripts, that is to say, works written in your programming language. For instance, I don't