Re: Possible copyright violation wrt SNNS

2000-05-23 Thread Mike Bilow
This would be my position: once you edit in the debian subdirectory, you are modifying the source tree. I don't see any way of satisfying the license other than by distributing source patches and letting the user build, as is done with Pine. This is annoying at best, and the Pine license is

Re: Possible copyright violation wrt SNNS

2000-05-23 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi *, [Sorry if this is the wrong forum - I thought this is the easiest way to reach the snns developers] I took over the snns packages for Debian a while ago. Originally I only wanted to fix some problems but as snns seems to be quite mature to me and I do not expect much work in maintaining

Re: Possible copyright violation wrt SNNS

2000-05-23 Thread Steve Greenland
On 23-May-00, 00:56 (CDT), Mike Bilow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This would be my position: once you edit in the debian subdirectory, you are modifying the source tree. I don't see any way of satisfying the license other than by distributing source patches and letting the user build, as is

Re: Possible copyright violation wrt SNNS

2000-05-23 Thread Mike Bilow
On 2000-05-23 at 08:37 -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: On 23-May-00, 00:56 (CDT), Mike Bilow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This would be my position: once you edit in the debian subdirectory, you are modifying the source tree. I don't see any way of satisfying the license other than by

Possible copyright violation wrt SNNS

2000-05-22 Thread Stephen R. Gore
I've been doing sparc binary builds for non-free, and reading the copyright/changelog files as I go. I have a question wrt SNNS. From the license: In contrast to the GNU license we do not allow modified copies of our software to be distributed. You may, however,

Re: Possible copyright violation wrt SNNS

2000-05-22 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Package: snns Severity: important Hi Stephen, On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 03:49:54PM -0500, Stephen R. Gore wrote: I've been doing sparc binary builds for non-free, and reading the copyright/changelog files as I go. I have a question wrt SNNS. From the license: In contrast to

Re: Possible copyright violation wrt SNNS

2000-05-22 Thread Stephen R. Gore
I feel that there may be a very real chance that the copyright holder might accept the changes into upstream. But I doubt it could be done in time for release. Torsten, have you had contact with upstream? Does this sound feasible? Other than that possibility, Mike's suggestion seems to me to

Re: Possible copyright violation wrt SNNS

2000-05-22 Thread RudeSka
That is not correct. Qt has a similar restriction, however, I believe it is DFSG free. On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 08:38:37PM -0400, Brian Ristuccia wrote: On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 06:51:56PM -0400, Mike Bilow wrote: I think there is no question you have to get it out of Potato as things stand.

Re: Possible copyright violation wrt SNNS

2000-05-22 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 07:45:01PM -0500, RudeSka wrote: That is not correct. Qt has a similar restriction, however, I believe it is DFSG free. While the QPL requires patch files to be used for source code changes, it also allows you to distribute binaries built from modified source code