Re: Draft new DFSG - r1.4

1998-12-10 Thread Milan Zamazal
JH == john [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JH Milan Zamazal writes: This is a question. You can look on publication which was received through the program [SWI-Prolog] as a derived work of some kind. It can be looked in similar way as e.g. output of ray tracer or compiler.

I'm not sure if this is free.

1998-12-10 Thread Richard Braakman
The package tao, currently in Incoming, has this paragraph in its license: You may copy, modify, distribute, or sublicense the LICENCED PRODUCT without charge as part of a product or software program developed by you, so long as you preserve the functionality of interoperating with the

nasm license: is this DFSG free?

1998-12-10 Thread Juan Cespedes
Here's a copy of the license. Any comments will be greatly appreciated; the author is willing to change it if it doesn't meet our needs. (BTW: I think it's FDSG free): Terms and Conditions for the use of the Netwide Assembler = Can

Re: nasm license: is this DFSG free?

1998-12-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 16:44:52 +0100, Juan Cespedes wrote: Here's a copy of the license. Any comments will be greatly appreciated; the author is willing to change it if it doesn't meet our needs. The nasm author(s) have said they'd release it under GPL; that would clear all problems.

Re: Draft new DFSG - r1.4

1998-12-10 Thread john
Milan Zamazal writes: The problem here ... which is worth to discuss is: There is some knowledge, from which you derive other knowledge and present it as your achievement. Is it OK to require you have also reference the original knowledge in your presentation? I'm working on a perl

Re: nasm license: is this DFSG free?

1998-12-10 Thread john
Juan Cespedes writes: Here's a copy of the license. Any comments will be greatly appreciated; the author is willing to change it if it doesn't meet our needs. (BTW: I think it's FDSG free): I don't. The author may have meant it to be free, but it is so poorly drafted that it can only be