Re: BSD Protection License

2003-10-25 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 15:46, Adam Majer wrote: It can be found at: http://people.debian.org/~adamm/LICENSE Verdict: Non-free, violates DFSG 1. Details follow, after some introductory notes. First off, please always paste full license text to -legal. This helps people like me who often

Re: BSD Protection License

2003-10-25 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 18:41, Brian M. Carlson wrote: c) Modification, below, refers to the act of creating derivative works. d) You, below, refers to each licensee. What about translation? I guess it could be interpreted as modification, but it should be explicitly included. No

Re: BSD Protection License

2003-10-25 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 16:15, Glenn Maynard wrote: Another example: the LGPL would be incompatible with the GPL, except that it has a separate option to downgrade to the GPL. s/downgrade/upgrade/ ;-) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: BSD Protection License

2003-10-25 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 06:15:26AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Another example: the LGPL would be incompatible with the GPL, except that it has a separate option to downgrade to the GPL. s/downgrade/upgrade/ ;-) At least we're disagreeing very efficiently. :) -- Glenn Maynard

The license of LaTeX2HTML

2003-10-25 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, I'm about to adopt the Debian package of latex2html. But before, I have to sort out #204684 [1], a licensing problem (serious, RC). While we got a license for the code of Mats Dahlgren, the other (and bigger) problem in the main LaTeX2HTML license remains:

Re: The license of LaTeX2HTML

2003-10-25 Thread Brian M. Carlson
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:20:26PM +0200, Roland Stigge wrote: [... disclaimer ...] Use and copying of this software and the preparation of derivative works based on this software are permitted, so long as the following conditions are met: A The copyright notice and this entire notice

DFSG-freeness issues and sarge-ignore

2003-10-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:32:11AM +1000, Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote: However, I don't want to use this example to justify further violations; I'm also not happy that some people think the current GFDL discussion might imply that all issues about non-freeness can be

Re: license check for tqsllib

2003-10-25 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:37:15PM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: How about we find any software that still has the advertising clause and aim to chuck it out of the archive? It can't be that difficult by now. Ah, thank you, Mr. Suffield, for the typical extremism. I reply, as I did in the first

Re: The license of LaTeX2HTML

2003-10-25 Thread Dylan Thurston
On 2003-10-25, Brian M. Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:20:26PM +0200, Roland Stigge wrote: Maybe I should add that some files in latex2html are GPL'ed, which possibly forces us / the maintainer to apply the GPL to the whole package. If some files are GPL, then