Re: Bug#281672: marked as done (autoconf: non-free documentation)

2004-11-26 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Don Armstrong wrote: I think we've been here before, done that, and have sold off all of the t-shirts to help finance the non-existant black helicopters. Of course there are no black helicopters, -legal helicopters are actually midnight blue ;-)

Re: Bug#281672: marked as done (autoconf: non-free documentation)

2004-11-26 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 05:40:02AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Don Armstrong wrote: I think we've been here before, done that, and have sold off all of the t-shirts to help finance the non-existant black helicopters. Of course there are no black helicopters, -legal helicopters are

kissfft

2004-11-26 Thread Paul Brossier
Hi all, Kissfft (http://kissfft.sf.net) ships with a modified BSD license that says: /* Copyright (c) 2003-2004, Mark Borgerding All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Re: kissfft

2004-11-26 Thread Josh Triplett
Paul Brossier wrote: Kissfft (http://kissfft.sf.net) ships with a modified BSD license that says: /* Copyright (c) 2003-2004, Mark Borgerding All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following

Re: kissfft

2004-11-26 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:56:14AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: The text of this license is nearly identical to that in /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD, modulo the different copyright holder and the corresponding changes in the third clause and warranty disclaimer. Oddly, it seems that name of

Re: kissfft

2004-11-26 Thread Josh Triplett
Glenn Maynard wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:56:14AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: The text of this license is nearly identical to that in /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD, modulo the different copyright holder and the corresponding changes in the third clause and warranty disclaimer. Oddly, it

Common-licenses [was: Re: kissfft]

2004-11-26 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:22:56 -0800 Josh Triplett wrote: Agreed. For the same reason, I wonder why one particular variant (3-clause, copyright The Regents of the University of California) of the BSD license is included in /usr/share/common-licenses, while the standard MIT license is not. You

Re: GPL and command-line libraries

2004-11-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Wesley W. Terpstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I am concerned about is the following scenario: Mr. John Wontshare writes a streaming multicast client. To deal with packet loss, he uses my error-correcting library. Without my library, Mr. Wontshare's client can't work at all. That statement is

Re: GPL and command-line libraries

2004-11-26 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Nathanael Nerode wrote: If your library has a well-specified API, anyone could make a library with the same API, and his client could use that. Under those circumstances, his client is not a derivative work of your library (although it may be a derivative work of the *API and other