Re: Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r2 (II)

2003-11-26 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: In the United States, fonts can't be copyrighted. Only font programs (e.g., the PostScript code used to produce the glyph) can be. So there can be no copyright on bitmap fonts, and using a bitmap font, a

Re: simplest copyleft license for a wiki

2003-11-26 Thread Dylan Thurston
On 2003-11-26, Alex Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, maybe that is up to the courts to decide. It doesn't look like a copyleft to me, but that's just my first impression. I'm used to this definition from the FSF site: Copyleft is a general method for making a program free software

Re: Bug#221709: ITP: at76c503a-source -- at76c503a driver source

2003-11-26 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am So, den 23.11.2003 schrieb Anthony DeRobertis um 04:44: On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 15:51, Joachim Breitner wrote: Compare to this: You give a text to a newspaper with this licence: * you may read it * you may print it Then there is no way I can stop them from printing, after we both

Re: simplest copyleft license for a wiki

2003-11-26 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: Alex Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But even then, you're going to have two problems: consider, for example, the BSD Preservation License Can you point me to an URL with the license text? I didn't find it with Google. Shoot, I was

Binaries under GPL(2) (was: Re: Bug#221709: ITP: at76c503a-source -- at76c503a driver source)

2003-11-26 Thread Alexander Cherepanov
25-Nov-03 19:19 Walter Landry wrote: Alexander Cherepanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200212/msg00202.html Walter Landry wrote: Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's clear that our basic disagreement is here. I see

Re: Binaries under GPL(2)

2003-11-26 Thread Alexander Cherepanov
25-Nov-03 17:59 Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Alexander Cherepanov wrote: 24-Nov-03 22:02 Don Armstrong wrote: in order to redistribute under the terms of the GPL, you need to be able to provide source (the prefered form for modification.) Section 2 of the GPL doesn't require to

Re: Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r2 (II)

2003-11-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 10:10:51AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: At Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:43:04 +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote: I think if your request was phrased differently, I think the outcome may have been different. What we agreed was HITACHI's claim in current shape can not be the

Re: Binaries under GPL(2)

2003-11-26 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Alexander Cherepanov wrote: You mean that section 3 should really be read as If you ... you must ... instead of You may ... provided that ... and must be complied with irrespective of section 2? If you are distributing an executable or object code, that distribution is

Re: Bug#221709: ITP: at76c503a-source -- at76c503a driver source

2003-11-26 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, seems like we are getting closer here: It is true, that the case I constructed has nothing to do with copyright law. My bad. You agree that if the GPL would part of some contract (in the wider interpretation, e.g. when buying something) or came with something I bought from them, it would be

Re: Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r2 (II)

2003-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 09:21:36PM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 10:10:51AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: At Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:43:04 +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote: I think if your request was phrased differently, I think the outcome may have been different. What