Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-09-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hope to have answered to your question. I am sorry but I did not succeed in asking Berkeley's Regents for a license change. Didn't they issue a blanket license change for _all_ code owned by them under the old bsd license? Yes. But the original spice code was not under

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-09-01 Thread Jordan Abel
Hope to have answered to your question. I am sorry but I did not succeedin asking Berkeley's Regents for a license change. Didn't they issue a blanket license change for _all_ code owned by them under the old bsd license?

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-08-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 02:26:16AM +0300, Gerasimos Melissaratos wrote: Below I include the answer I got from Mr Nenzi about the ngspice licencing. In short, I asked him about the possibility of a re-release of ngspice with the new BSD license or something else compatible with Debian. The short

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-08-27 Thread Gerasimos Melissaratos
Below I include the answer I got from Mr Nenzi about the ngspice licencing. In short, I asked him about the possibility of a re-release of ngspice with the new BSD license or something else compatible with Debian. The short answer is no. In the face of that, would it be possible to include a

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-07-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
On Saturday 23 July 2005 04:41 pm, Francesco Poli wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:03:56 -0700 Sean Kellogg wrote: Anyone else have thoughts? Yes, I have one: |3. The licensee agrees to obey all U.S. Government res- trictions |governing redistribution or export of the software

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-07-24 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 21:46 -0700, Sean Kellogg wrote: On Saturday 23 July 2005 08:04 pm, Jeff Licquia wrote: On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 17:11 -0700, Sean Kellogg wrote: This is a difficult situation that is worth commentary. Assume for a moment that the U.S. has some strict export

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-07-23 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:03:56 -0700 Sean Kellogg wrote: Anyone else have thoughts? Yes, I have one: |3. The licensee agrees to obey all U.S. Government res- trictions |governing redistribution or export of the software and |documentation. That sounds non-free. Suppose I'm *not* a

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-07-23 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Saturday 23 July 2005 04:41 pm, Francesco Poli wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:03:56 -0700 Sean Kellogg wrote: Anyone else have thoughts? Yes, I have one: |3. The licensee agrees to obey all U.S. Government res- trictions |governing redistribution or export of the software and |

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-07-23 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 17:11 -0700, Sean Kellogg wrote: This is a difficult situation that is worth commentary. Assume for a moment that the U.S. has some strict export restriction. As a U.S. citizen I am bound by those laws and cannot legally violate them. Further, if I am to distribute

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-07-23 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Saturday 23 July 2005 08:04 pm, Jeff Licquia wrote: On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 17:11 -0700, Sean Kellogg wrote: This is a difficult situation that is worth commentary. Assume for a moment that the U.S. has some strict export restriction. As a U.S. citizen I am bound by those laws and cannot

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-07-22 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Thursday 21 July 2005 04:49 pm, Gerasimos Melissaratos wrote: X-Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like to create a package for ng-spice, which seems to be governed by two licenses, which I include herein. In first

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-07-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
Sean Kellogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: License 1 contains a limitation on use (educational, research and non-profit purposes, without fee) which is a violation of DFSG #6. License 2 is less obvious, but I personally believe that a provision that forbids charging a fee for distribution is

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-07-22 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Friday 22 July 2005 03:28 am, Matthew Garrett wrote: Sean Kellogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: License 1 contains a limitation on use (educational, research and non-profit purposes, without fee) which is a violation of DFSG #6. License 2 is less obvious, but I personally believe that a

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-07-22 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sean Kellogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Friday 22 July 2005 03:28 am, Matthew Garrett wrote: Sean Kellogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: License 1 contains a limitation on use (educational, research and non-profit purposes, without fee) which is a violation of DFSG

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-07-22 Thread Florian Weimer
* Anthony W. Youngman: Actually, doesn't the GPL itself contain exactly the same restriction, just worded a bit differently? The GPL forbids charging for the code itself. Only for the source code which you must make available when you distribute binaries, you may not charge for anything but