Re: [Bug-gnulib] missing licenses in gnulib / m4

2004-10-05 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 19:26:48 +0200 Bruno Haible wrote: > Some m4 files are shared between GPLed and LGPLed packages, and it is > frequent to copy m4 macros from one file to another (much more > frequent than copying source code between .c files). For this reason, > I think it would be best if all *

Re: [Bug-gnulib] missing licenses in gnulib / m4

2004-10-05 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some m4 files are shared between GPLed and LGPLed packages, Yes, and for these files the more-permissive license makes sense. > and it is frequent to copy m4 macros from one file to another (much > more frequent than copying source code between .c files

Re: OpenOffice.org (LGPL) and hspell (GPL)

2004-10-05 Thread Josh Triplett
Chris Halls wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 11:33, Rene Engelhard wrote: >>Am Dienstag, 21. September 2004 12:28 schrieb Steve Langasek: >> >>>Why not? If all of OOo is LGPL, then the license allows you to >>>distribute under the terms of the GPL, so linking with another GPL >>>library is ok. >> >>

Re: Open Software License v2.1

2004-10-05 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: > >>>Stop right there. You didn't invent the software I wrote, regardless of >>>what the overloaded US Patent Office might think. >> Sure I did. Well, if you're writing some software to do >> Diffie-Hellman key exchange,

Re: Open Software License v2.1

2004-10-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Stop right there. You didn't invent the software I wrote, regardless of what the overloaded US Patent Office might think. Sure I did. Well, if you're writing some software to do Diffie-Hellman key exchange, that Diffie and Hellman most certainly *did* invent that

Re: [Bug-gnulib] missing licenses in gnulib / m4

2004-10-05 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: > > For the m4 files, I propose to add the standard notice to them: > > > > dnl Copyright (C) YEARS Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > dnl This file is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU > > dnl General Public License. As a special exception to the GNU General

Re: Bug#274950: figlet: non-free licenses and possibly non-distributable files

2004-10-05 Thread MJ Ray
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