Re: kscope licences

2006-04-12 Thread MJ Ray
Fathi Boudra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Upstream author find a solution : The next version of KScope, due shortly, uses 'dot' from the command-line=20 instead of dynamically linking with graphviz. This should solve all licensi= ng problems. That seems a good solution. Thanks for working on this

infos about alien licenses

2006-04-12 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
Hi, I want to package a certain software for Debian and need help. The software itself is under the GPL (v2), but it brings several external programs and libraries, some of which don't have a license info or one I'm not sure about. The list of these externallibs is: |-- externallibs

Re: Mozilla relicensing complete

2006-04-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 09:37:34AM +0200, Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 08:40:55PM -0800, Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to Gervase Markham, the mozilla relicensing process has now completed; all source files now fall under the GPL, LGPL, and

Re: PHP license...

2006-04-12 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:00:51 +0200 Pierre Habouzit wrote: Hi, I'm packaging a PHP C extension, that was licensed under the LGPL, but is now under the PHP license. it was unofficial, but is now listed on PECL[1] and the lead developper has an @php.net address, and is member of the PHP

Re: PHP license...

2006-04-12 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mer 12 Avril 2006 22:13, Francesco Poli a écrit : On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:00:51 +0200 Pierre Habouzit wrote: I've read the thread about PHP license 3.01 in february, and had the impression that the consensus was that that license is acceptable for things that come from the PHP Group. is

Re: PHP license...

2006-04-12 Thread Charles Fry
As you may have read in the thread you're referring to (I don't know which of them, as there are quite several), I don't agree. I believe that PHP license version 3.01 does not comply with the DFSG, even when applied to PHP itself or to PHP Group software. The problematic clause is #4.

Re: PHP license...

2006-04-12 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:45:00 +0200 Pierre Habouzit wrote: Le Mer 12 Avril 2006 22:13, Francesco Poli a écrit : [...] As you may have read in the thread you're referring to (I don't know which of them, as there are quite several), I don't agree. I believe that PHP license version 3.01 does

Re: infos about alien licenses

2006-04-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:35:28PM +0200, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: | |-- DCOracle2-cvs.tar.gz- +(ask) | |-- TwistedSNMP-0.3.13.tar.gz - +(ask) | `-- sybase-0.36.tar.gz - +(ask) The

Re: infos about alien licenses

2006-04-12 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
Hi Matt ( list), Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:35:28PM +0200, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: | |-- DCOracle2-cvs.tar.gz- +(ask) | |-- TwistedSNMP-0.3.13.tar.gz - +(ask) | `-- sybase-0.36.tar.gz

Re: infos about alien licenses

2006-04-12 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Wolfgang Lonien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please CC me when answering; I'm not subscribed to Debian-legal. What was your question? The three licenses you quote are all ordinary 3-clause BSD licenses, which are nice and free. -- Henning Makholm The man who catches a

Re: infos about alien licenses

2006-04-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 06:12:59AM +0200, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: The TwistedSNMP-0.3.13/license.txt reads: THIS SOFTWARE IS NOT FAULT TOLERANT AND SHOULD NOT BE USED IN ANY SITUATION ENDANGERING HUMAN LIFE OR PROPERTY. This is possibly problematic, depending on how you define should. I'd

Re: infos about alien licenses

2006-04-12 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
Hi Matt list, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 06:12:59AM +0200, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: The TwistedSNMP-0.3.13/license.txt reads: THIS SOFTWARE IS NOT FAULT TOLERANT AND SHOULD NOT BE USED IN ANY SITUATION ENDANGERING HUMAN LIFE OR PROPERTY. This is possibly problematic,