Re: Clarification of redistribution

2004-08-11 Thread Joe Moore
I hope this sort of success is mentioned in the debian-legal summary of threads for this week. It's exactly the sort of thing that needs to be highlighted. It demonstrates how debian-legal works with upstream to find ways to make their software DFSG-Free. It's also nice to see that

Re: Clarification of redistribution

2004-08-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:57:25AM -0400, Joe Moore wrote: I hope this sort of success is mentioned in the debian-legal summary of threads for this week. It's exactly the sort of thing that needs to be highlighted. It demonstrates how debian-legal works with upstream to find ways to make

Re: Clarification of redistribution

2004-08-11 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-08-11 20:34:34 +0100 Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:57:25AM -0400, Joe Moore wrote: I hope this sort of success is mentioned in the debian-legal summary of threads for this week. It is truly pathetic that such highlighting is considered

Re: Clarification of redistribution

2004-08-11 Thread Andrew Saunders
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:57:25 -0400, Joe Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope this sort of success is mentioned in the debian-legal summary of threads for this week. Don't worry, it will be. :-) -- Andrew Saunders

Re: Clarification of redistribution

2004-08-10 Thread Mike Olson
All, I'm following up on a thread that's a month or so old, now. My apologies for the delay in closing this out. I was unsuccessful in getting the Commons folks to work with the FSF on a GPL-compatible commons deed. While I believe that such a deed would be in the interest of the community

Re: Clarification of redistribution

2004-08-10 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:51:08PM -0400, Mike Olson wrote: I'm following up on a thread that's a month or so old, now. My apologies for the delay in closing this out. Not at all, thank you for pursuing this. I was unsuccessful in getting the Commons folks to work with the FSF on a

Re: Clarification of redistribution

2004-07-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Mike Olson wrote: I've got a follow-up question for the Debian readership on the list: What documentation licenses do you know of that are DFSG-free? GPL, 2-clause BSD, MIT/X11. (We have high hopes that CC-by will be amended to be so but it isn't now.) How do you guys think about marks, and

Re: Clarification of redistribution

2004-07-15 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Mike Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got a follow-up question for the Debian readership on the list: What documentation licenses do you know of that are DFSG-free? The MIT/X11 license, the new BSD license, the Sleepycat license, and the GPL are all Free documentation licenses. Using the

Re: Clarification of redistribution

2004-07-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 00:25 +0100, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-07-14 23:04:20 +0100 Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 16:45 -0400, Mike Olson wrote: What documentation licenses do you know of that are DFSG-free? Given debian-legal's current trend, none are

Re: Clarification of redistribution

2004-07-14 Thread Mike Olson
I've got a follow-up question for the Debian readership on the list: What documentation licenses do you know of that are DFSG-free? How do you guys think about marks, and preservation of trademark rights in documentation? mike

Re: Clarification of redistribution

2004-07-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 04:45:02PM -0400, Mike Olson wrote: I've got a follow-up question for the Debian readership on the list: What documentation licenses do you know of that are DFSG-free? GPL, MIT, usual stack. How do you guys think about marks, and preservation of trademark rights in

Re: Clarification of redistribution

2004-07-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 16:45 -0400, Mike Olson wrote: I've got a follow-up question for the Debian readership on the list: What documentation licenses do you know of that are DFSG-free? Given debian-legal's current trend, none are safe ... :o) Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had

Re: Clarification of redistribution

2004-07-14 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-07-14 23:04:20 +0100 Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 16:45 -0400, Mike Olson wrote: What documentation licenses do you know of that are DFSG-free? Given debian-legal's current trend, none are safe ... :o) Roll up! Roll up! Sniper rifles for