Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 20021129T103609-0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
UnicodeData.txt is used as an input data file for many programs, so
there's no way around it.
It probably shouldn't be. My interpretation, for one of my programs
that uses Unicode, is
Title: Nova pagina 1
Window Xp
Nao precisa de codigo de ativacao.
Apenas 5000 ienes.
em portugues ou Ingles
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License follows:
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UCD Terms of Use
Disclaimer
The Unicode Character Database is provided as is by Unicode, Inc. No
claims are made as to fitness for any particular purpose. No
warranties of any kind are
Jim Penny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1) it appears not to allow modification of the file. The only
operation permitted is extraction.
Both Sam Hartman and I agreed that while modification might not be
permitted, distribution of patch files for the purpose of effective
modification *is* easily
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 02:58:14PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
Jim Penny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1) it appears not to allow modification of the file. The only
operation permitted is extraction.
Both Sam Hartman and I agreed that while modification might not be
permitted,
Scripsit Jim Penny [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So, does that not make qmail free?
No. Qmail is non-free because we can't distribute modified
*binaries*. In the case of Unicode tables, that is covered by the
extraction clause.
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Jim Penny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So, does that not make qmail free? There is no problem in distributing
the unchanged tarball, and we are, after all, simply distributing a
patchset that modifies it to support FHS.
Two important differences:
1) Qmail prohibits unapproved patches; Unicode
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 06:02:23PM -0500, Jim Penny wrote:
So, does that not make qmail free? There is no problem in distributing
the unchanged tarball, and we are, after all, simply distributing a
patchset that modifies it to support FHS.
If I remember correctly, the license of Qmail
Jim Penny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 12:21:30AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
Scripsit Jim Penny [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So, does that not make qmail free?
No. Qmail is non-free because we can't distribute modified
*binaries*. In the case of Unicode tables, that
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:11:45PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
Jim Penny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In the case of qmail, there *is* a rule that prohibits just this, and
so it would be a subterfuge to use an installer to achieve something
that cannot be achieved directly: a binary that
Jim Penny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:11:45PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
Jim Penny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In the case of qmail, there *is* a rule that prohibits just this, and
so it would be a subterfuge to use an installer to achieve something
that
Thomas Bushnell, BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Courts care not about the technical details of *how* you copy, but the
fact that you copy. You cannot copy qmail *at all* if you are making a
modified binary with it. This means you cannot copy qmail and then do
with it what you want to.
And
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thomas Bushnell, BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Courts care not about the technical details of *how* you copy, but the
fact that you copy. You cannot copy qmail *at all* if you are making a
modified binary with it. This means you cannot copy qmail
Thomas Bushnell, BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Qmail says you may not copy this if you do X, Y, or Z with it.
I must be missing something obvious, since I don't see anything on:
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html
that says that. Quite to the contrary, it explicitly states:
| You may
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So Dan certainly appears to believe that one can distribute the qmail
source code along with a patch to that code and a script to compile it,
based on his statements on his web pages. That puts me back to trying to
understand why I should believe one of
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