Re: Source Code of Music (was: various opinions on Debian vs the GFDL)

2003-06-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 22:56, Thomas Uwe Gruettmueller wrote: Somewhere on this planet, bandwith must be really cheap... 21715 Filigree Court, VA is one such place. Now if only power and space there were really cheap :-( signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: GDB manual

2003-06-03 Thread Richard Stallman
Whether to change the GFDL is not a Debian decision, so I've decided not to discuss that here. Is there a public forum where you are willing to discuss that? Not now, and not in the way that some people want to discuss it (they throw stones at me while I stand there and get hit).

Re: The debate on Invariant sections (long)

2003-06-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 16:37, Barak Pearlmutter wrote: Sure, and it's also perfectly plausible that RMS is a secret employee of Microsoft and Chinese double agent plotting the use of free software to assassinate the Dalai Lama. But this is debian-legal not debian-wacko-conspiracy-theory. The

Re: Open Software License

2003-06-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 16:16, Joey Hess wrote: c) to distribute copies of the Original Work and Derivative Works to the public, with the proviso that copies of Original Work or Derivative Works that You distribute shall be licensed under the Open Software License; ... 3) Grant of

Re: GPL exception ???

2003-06-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 01:57:08PM -0700, Mark Rafn wrote: On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Branden Robinson wrote: I hope the copyright holder realizes that this restriction is unenforceable under copyright law if the source code and documentation are rewritten such that they are no longer derivative

Re: Open Software License

2003-06-03 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry said on Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 07:46:52PM -0700,: I presume this document has been discussed elsewhere, has Mr. Rosen spoken on these matters? From what I have seen of him on the Net, he seems willing to discuss such matters. I subscribe to the license-discuss list; but do

Re: Open Software License

2003-06-03 Thread Mark Rafn
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry said on Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 07:46:52PM -0700,: I presume this document has been discussed elsewhere, has Mr. Rosen spoken on these matters? From what I have seen of him on the Net, he seems willing to discuss such matters. On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: I

Re: Bug #189164: libdbd-mysql-perl uses GPL lib, may be used by GPL-incompatible apps

2003-06-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:20:39PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: It is not mere aggregation, for the same reason that a bug in a library that makes it unusable by applications is a grave, not a critical, bug: one piece of software is not unrelated to another if the

Re: Open Software License

2003-06-03 Thread Walter Landry
Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 16:16, Joey Hess wrote: 10) Jurisdiction, Venue and Governing Law. You agree that any lawsuit arising under or relating to this License shall be maintained in the courts of the jurisdiction wherein the Licensor resides or in