Re: Request for IPR review

2004-12-25 Thread Mark Johnson
Quoting Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 03:38:01PM -0500, Mark Johnson wrote: I've been asked to get some sort of review from the free software world of the new OASIS[1] IPR draft. I tried to review it myself, but the legalese is a bit on the opaque side for

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-25 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:55:04PM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: Great. Then the driver operates differently depending on the presence of additional software -- it needs a Linux kernel and the firmware.

Re: Is the xdebug's non-free license necessary?

2004-12-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
So can you say why it is a problem with my license, and not with Apache's and PHP's? Nobody is going to say that, because we think it's a problem with all those licenses. It was a problem with Apache's license. It was not noticed for a long time. Eventually it was noticed, and it was *fixed*

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-25 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: That's not software. That's firmware, at best -- you can look at it as software, but then you don't get to distribute any drivers. It is also internally consistent to think of chips as hardware and distribute drivers

Re: Draft summary of Creative Commons 2.0 licenses (version 2)

2004-12-25 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 17:09:38 -0500 Nathanael Nerode wrote: Consider adding the following to the summary under trademark restrictions: Debian-legal has contacted Creative Commons about this issue, since it seems to be trivial to fix, but has unfortunately received no response. Perhaps