Re: Copyleft variation of MIT license

2007-04-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Suraj N. Kurapati [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Suraj N. Kurapati [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The MIT license has the following properties (from Ed Burnette's survey[3] of free software licenses): 4. Source to bug

Re: Copyleft variation of MIT license

2007-04-04 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Suraj N. Kurapati [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes One of my intentions was to specify a set of basic requirements for my source code and not go far as to restrict the code to a particular license. That is, I want to allow my code to be

GPL distribution begets only GPL?

2007-04-04 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
If I download some GPL code and it contains some MIT code, can I just take those MIT portions and act upon them (1) only according to MIT license? (2) only according to GPL? (3) or both? Thanks for your consideration. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: GPL v3 Draft 3- text and comments

2007-04-04 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070404 01:09]: Calling Affero code proprietary is a pretty big stretch. Yes, there's a clause in there which is a restriction on modification - so it's not entirely free. But you still have to release the source to modifications, source follows the

Re: GPL distribution begets only GPL?

2007-04-04 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:03:56 -0700 Suraj N. Kurapati wrote: If I download some GPL code and it contains some MIT code, can I just take those MIT portions and act upon them (1) only according to MIT license? Yes, *as long as* you are able to extract the MIT-licensed part. In some cases, the

Re: GPL v3 Draft 3- text and comments

2007-04-04 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:09:30 +0100 Gervase Markham wrote: Francesco Poli wrote: Well, *when* I want a copyleft, I want one that *actually works*... Exemptions for specific incompatible licenses should be left out of the license text (so that who wants them can add them as additional

Re: GPL v3 Draft 3- text and comments

2007-04-04 Thread Gervase Markham
Francesco Poli wrote: Not-quite-DFSG-free == non-free, even though close to the freeness boundary == proprietary, even though close to the freeness boundary By definition, whatever is not free, is proprietary. I was using proprietary in what I thought was its fairly common meaning, i.e.

Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-04-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-28 01:18:32, schrieb Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu): Lossless and lossy compression format don't mean anything on preferred form for modification. Some recorders do record mp3/ogg directly. And some audio editors do edit mp3/ogg directly. And many of the authors of the audio works don't

Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-04-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-28 01:00:13, schrieb Francesco Poli: On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:18:32 +0800 Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) wrote: To require the author to use some listed formats for image source or audio source is impracticable. Indeed! Because what is source for a work, can be a compiled form for

Re: Debian License agreement

2007-04-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-24 23:08:31, schrieb Vsevolod Krishchenko: On Saturday 24 March 2007 22:53, you wrote: find /usr/share/doc -name copyright|xargs tar czf I_Love_Russia.tar.gz That gives the Russian authorities something to read. :) Sad point is it must be translated (at least unofficial

Re: Copyleft variation of MIT license

2007-04-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Suraj N. Kurapati [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Suraj N. Kurapati [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes One of my intentions was to specify a set of basic requirements for my source code and not go far as to restrict the code

Re: GPL v3 Draft 3- text and comments

2007-04-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Francesco Poli wrote: Not-quite-DFSG-free == non-free, even though close to the freeness boundary == proprietary, even though close to the freeness boundary By definition, whatever is not free, is proprietary. I was

Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-04-04 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 20:01:02 +0200 Michelle Konzack wrote: [...] And currently I create some new weapons but the source of sunburn for example is around 70 MBytes including the sound effects plus a real Video of 480 MByte as source which will be converted to a OGM to around 30 MByte. I'm not

Re: GPL v3 Draft 3- text and comments

2007-04-04 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:40:12 +0100 Gervase Markham wrote: Francesco Poli wrote: Not-quite-DFSG-free == non-free, even though close to the freeness boundary == proprietary, even though close to the freeness boundary By definition, whatever is not free, is proprietary. I was using