Re: Licence query

2008-09-15 Thread MJ Ray
Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first it is clearly referring to the unmodified source. The second it has no other noun to refer to [...] No noun except the altered source, the outcome of the first action? Compare: if I say This box: I'll wrap it and post it to you then I mean I'm

Licence query

2008-09-14 Thread Julian Gilbey
Hi all! I'm looking at a package (GLFW, bindings to OpenGL from Haskell) which has the following licence. I think that it is DFSG-free, but I'd like someone else to check over it, as I've not seen a licence exactly like this one before. Many thanks! Julian Licence follows: Copyright (c)

Re: Licence query

2008-09-14 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:10:17 +0100 Julian Gilbey wrote: Hi all! Hi! :) I'm looking at a package (GLFW, bindings to OpenGL from Haskell) which has the following licence. I think that it is DFSG-free, but I'd like someone else to check over it, as I've not seen a licence exactly like

Re: Licence query

2008-09-14 Thread Måns Rullgård
Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:10:17 +0100 Julian Gilbey wrote: Hi all! Hi! :) I'm looking at a package (GLFW, bindings to OpenGL from Haskell) which has the following licence. I think that it is DFSG-free, but I'd like someone else to check over it,

Re: Licence query

2008-09-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Måns Rullgård said: There is one thing about that license that strikes me as slightly odd. Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the

Re: Licence query

2008-09-14 Thread Måns Rullgård
Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This one time, at band camp, Måns Rullgård said: There is one thing about that license that strikes me as slightly odd. Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and

Re: Licence query

2008-09-14 Thread Måns Rullgård
Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This one time, at band camp, Måns Rullgård said: Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This one time, at band camp, Måns Rullgård said: There is one thing about that license that strikes me as slightly odd. Permission is granted to anyone to

Re: Licence query

2008-09-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Måns Rullgård said: Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This one time, at band camp, Måns Rullgård said: There is one thing about that license that strikes me as slightly odd. Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,

Licence Query: petris (new package)

2004-02-22 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
I have started packaging petris, a command line tetris clone (http://home1.stofanet.dk/peter-seidler/). The README says: LICENSE You can do whatever you want with the program, it's Public Domain. (however, it would be nice of you to credit me if you found anything of this useful). Is this

Re: Licence Query: petris (new package)

2004-02-22 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andree Leidenfrost [EMAIL PROTECTED] LICENSE You can do whatever you want with the program, it's Public Domain. (however, it would be nice of you to credit me if you found anything of this useful). Is this DFSG compliant? Yes. (Jurisdiction that do not acknowledge authors'

Re: Licence Query: petris (new package)

2004-02-22 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:29:25PM +1100, Andree Leidenfrost wrote: I have started packaging petris, a command line tetris clone (http://home1.stofanet.dk/peter-seidler/). The README says: LICENSE You can do whatever you want with the program, it's Public Domain. (however, it would

Re: Licence query

2004-02-04 Thread Roger Leigh
Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 03 Feb 2004, Roger Leigh wrote: It appears to be a BSD-style licence, with all UCB references removed, Yeah, that's pretty much what it is. but I'd just like to check with you that it is DFSG-free since it is a different licence, and IANAL.

Licence query

2004-02-03 Thread Roger Leigh
The following licence is in use by the libpqxx package (C++ binding for PostgreSQL), and a companion library (libpqxx-object) which I am writing. It appears to be a BSD-style licence, with all UCB references removed, but I'd just like to check with you that it is DFSG-free since it is a different

Re: Licence query

2004-02-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 02:46:54PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: The following licence is in use by the libpqxx package (C++ binding for PostgreSQL), and a companion library (libpqxx-object) which I am writing. It appears to be a BSD-style licence, with all UCB references removed, but I'd just

Re: Licence query

2004-02-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 03 Feb 2004, Roger Leigh wrote: It appears to be a BSD-style licence, with all UCB references removed, Yeah, that's pretty much what it is. but I'd just like to check with you that it is DFSG-free since it is a different licence, and IANAL. In particular, the no advertising without