Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-23 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:41:34AM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: If the copyright holder includes a copy of the GPL but writes that the software is licensed under the GPL plus additional restrictions, then this is not illegal as far as I know (there's nothing in the GPL that prevents it

Postpone GFDL flamewar, please!

2003-04-23 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 07:00:32PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote: Why is this a problem? Seems to me that it is their right to do so, if they make a contribution that nobody else wants to be without, they have earned the moral right to insult the original author. This has all been debated at

Re: monit: GPL and OpenSSL..

2003-04-23 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 12:42:16PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: This program is released under the GPL with the additional exemption that compiling, linking, and/or using OpenSSL is allowed. Would this be sufficient for Debian? The above doesn't actually add anything to the

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-23 Thread Mark Rafn
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Brian May wrote: Quoting README, in particular the entire LICENSING section: [Snip text about Hans Reiser assuming the right to re-license contributed work if it's not clearly labelled otherwise. I don't have an opinion on the legality of it, but it doesn't sound