Re: [Fwd: Re: [gNewSense-users] PFV call for help.]

2008-01-28 Thread John Halton
On Jan 26, 2008 2:52 PM, Michael Below [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering: Is there a legal system on earth that would accept a disclaimer like TINLA? Perhaps first of all we need to ask if there is a legal system on earth that would regard contributing to this mailing list as constituting

Re: TrueCrypt License 2.3

2008-01-28 Thread John Halton
On Jan 28, 2008 12:05 AM, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we have named Firefux the modified version of Firefox, I doubt the Mozilla foundation would have let that pass. There's various other reasons for that and it wouldn't have been covered by a prohibition on calling it Firefox or

Re: [Fwd: Re: [gNewSense-users] PFV call for help.]

2008-01-28 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Monday 28 January 2008 01:27:54 am John Halton wrote: Two, this disclaimer tries to force its own judgement onto the legal system. If the statement you are referring to is legal advice (which is a question of legal interpretation), you shouldn't be able to define it away post factum. A

Re: web hosting providers' modified .debs

2008-01-28 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Florian Weimer wrote: | You may make, run and propagate covered works that you do not | convey, without conditions so long as your license otherwise remains | in force. You may convey covered works to others for the sole purpose | of having them make modifications exclusively for you, or

Re: web hosting providers' modified .debs

2008-01-28 Thread Florian Weimer
FW GPLv3 makes it pretty clear that Dreamhost can take your rights away So all that effort of writing Free Software and the result is there is Johnny, sitting at the shell prompt, unable to see the source code to anything behind it if they decide to close it. Yes, I find the

Re: [Fwd: Re: [gNewSense-users] PFV call for help.]

2008-01-28 Thread MJ Ray
Michael Below [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering: Is there a legal system on earth that would accept a disclaimer like TINLA? I think the long list of acronyms may be a sly dig at certain silly postings in times past which complained that certain people weren't making it clear enough that

Re: web hosting providers' modified .debs

2008-01-28 Thread Joe Smith
Arnoud Engelfriet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Florian Weimer wrote: | You may make, run and propagate covered works that you do not | convey, without conditions so long as your license otherwise remains | in force. You may convey covered works to others for

Re: TrueCrypt License 2.3

2008-01-28 Thread MJ Ray
John Halton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 28, 2008 12:05 AM, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we have named Firefux the modified version of Firefox, I doubt the Mozilla foundation would have let that pass. There's various other reasons for that and it wouldn't have been covered by

Re: web hosting providers' modified .debs

2008-01-28 Thread MJ Ray
\John Halton\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 25, 2008 9:07 AM, Arnoud Engelfriet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My first question would be whether those files would contain sufficient creative expression to qualify for copyright protection. If they don't (and I am not sure something like

Re: web hosting providers' modified .debs

2008-01-28 Thread Florian Weimer
FW GPLv3 makes it pretty clear that Dreamhost can take your rights away So all that effort of writing Free Software and the result is there is Johnny, sitting at the shell prompt, unable to see the source code to anything behind it if they decide to close it. Yes, I find the