Re: Qt 2.2 under GPL

2000-09-05 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 06:08:56PM +0200, Tobias Peters wrote: It's time to celebrate and get the KDE packages back into the dist: http://www.trolltech.com/company/announce/gpl.html Special thanks to Joseph Carter who told them all the time where the problems were. Don't thank me. I had

Re: Free Pine?

2000-09-05 Thread Richard Stallman
I don't either--but that is not the point. The point is that the U of W has actually threatened to sue the FSF for distributing a modified version of a program that was released under the same words. Personally, I'm still in the process of confirming this. I hope that the U of

Re: Free Pine?

2000-09-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Raul Miller wrote: On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 01:26:53PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: That to me says Debian has permission to re-distribute our modified version, but that people who recieve it from us do not, unless they too ask permission (We do expect and appreciate...). Non-free. If

GPL question

2000-09-05 Thread Mike Cunningham
Hi everyone. Just joined the list and I'd *really* appreciate your advice on the part of the GPL that allows for exclusion of identifiable sections (i.e. section 2). The situation is: I work for a company which sells a proprietary closed-source call centre application. We are looking to write

Re: Free Pine?

2000-09-05 Thread Raul Miller
There's no legal difference between Debian and people who recieve it from us. [Legally, there's no such entity as Debian.] Nor is there a difference from the viewpoint of our social contract. On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:35:49AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Then why do we have DSFG #8

Re: GPL question

2000-09-05 Thread Mike Cunningham
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: GPL question Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 16:13:30 +0100 From: Mike Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, you wrote: snipped my stuff Um.. debian-legal doesn't engage in handing out legal advice. We're focussed on whether

Re: GPL question

2000-09-05 Thread Samuel Hocevar
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000, Mike Cunningham wrote: I work for a company which sells a proprietary closed-source call centre application. We are looking to write a central printing server component which would [hopefully] make use of Ghostscript. I understand that we would need to release the

Re: Free Pine?

2000-09-05 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then why do we have DSFG #8 `License Must Not Be Specific to Debian' if there is no Debian? There *is* a Debian. But it's not a legal *person*, it's a *work*. It is possible to write up a license that says, for example, that copies of program X may

Re: GPL question

2000-09-05 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Mike Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] I work for a company which sells a proprietary closed-source call centre application. We are looking to write a central printing server component which would [hopefully] make use of Ghostscript. I understand that we would need to release the