Re: Ironies abound

2006-01-19 Thread Frank Küster
Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did we ever find concrete evidence that TeX comes with a license to create modified versions under different names? The copyright notice at the top of tex.web presents only the patch option, and /usr/share/doc/tetex-bin/copyright is not of much help.

Re: Bug#348728: ITP: php-net-imap -- PHP PEAR module implementing IMAP protocol

2006-01-19 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mer 18 Janvier 2006 20:58, Steffen Joeris a écrit : You should be aware that per the current REJECT_FAQ [1] your package will be automatically rejected because it uses the PHP License. Several weeks ago I emailed the FTP Masters[2], requesting that they accept the PHP Licence for all

Re: When can we make some progress on the logo and trademarks?

2006-01-19 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-18 22:39]: Gerfried Fuchs wrote: There is one last point that I really want to raise, though: I guess we won't have to discuss that our very own beloved swirl logo has a non-free licence. We have discussed this. -legal agreed that the license

When can we make some progress on the logo and trademarks? (was Re: GR: GFDL Position Statement

2006-01-19 Thread MJ Ray
Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] This was going to be delayed until a proper trademark policy was in place. -legal came up with a pretty solid plan for what we wanted for a trademark policy; we wanted some review by a lawyer with some knowledge of trademark law. We haven't heard back

Re: Ironies abound (was Re: GPL v3 draft)

2006-01-19 Thread Alexander Terekhov
On 1/19/06, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] compatible with itself The GPL is incompatible with itself. quote*** A recent press conference of the Free Software Foundation confirmed the rumors that the GNU General Public License was found to be incompatible with itself. This newly

Re: Ironies abound (was Re: GPL v3 draft)

2006-01-19 Thread Yorick Cool
What is it you need to get rid of trolls? Fire? On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 02:33:41PM +0100, Alexander Terekhov wrote: Alexander On 1/19/06, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander [...] Alexander compatible with itself Alexander Alexander The GPL is incompatible with itself. Alexander

Re: Bug#348728: ITP: php-net-imap -- PHP PEAR module implementing IMAP protocol

2006-01-19 Thread Charles Fry
2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/01/msg00066.html snip the project decision is clear IMHO : read the php license, you'll see it can only apply to the main and official PHP distribution. Please read the message to debian-legal that I originally referenced. It outlines recent

Re: Ironies abound (was Re: GPL v3 draft)

2006-01-19 Thread Alexander Terekhov
On 1/19/06, Yorick Cool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is it you need to get rid of trolls? Fire? A troll hunter. regards, alexander.

Re: Ironies abound (was Re: GPL v3 draft)

2006-01-19 Thread Alexander Terekhov
On 1/19/06, Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/19/06, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] compatible with itself The GPL is incompatible with itself. [ ... Shlomi Fish on Monday April 01 ...] Beside that, http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/09/22/gpl3.html?page=2

Re: Ironies abound (was Re: GPL v3 draft)

2006-01-19 Thread MJ Ray
Yorick Cool [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is it you need to get rid of trolls? Fire? A clue-by-four, the same as used for top-post/whole-quoters. (ObSerious: please stop feeding the troll, please follow the code of conduct and no top-posting. That means you.) -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see

Re: Ironies abound (was Re: GPL v3 draft)

2006-01-19 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Hands Off Yorick! On 1/19/06, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yorick Cool [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is it you need to get rid of trolls? Fire? A clue-by-four, the same as used for top-post/whole-quoters. (ObSerious: please stop feeding the troll, please follow the code of conduct and no

Question on GPL compliance

2006-01-19 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hi all, I'm looking for ways to comply with the GPL without the 3-year requirement (I don't know where I'll be in 3 years). Suppose I have an online store that sells CDs of GPL software. People buy the CD and we ship it to them. One obvious way to comply with the GPL is to always send a

Re: Question on GPL compliance

2006-01-19 Thread Michael Poole
Daniel Carrera writes: Hi all, I'm looking for ways to comply with the GPL without the 3-year requirement (I don't know where I'll be in 3 years). Suppose I have an online store that sells CDs of GPL software. People buy the CD and we ship it to them. One obvious way to comply with the

Re: Question on GPL compliance

2006-01-19 Thread Daniel Carrera
Michael Poole wrote: Section 3 of the GPL does not seem to permit that: If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of

Re: Question on GPL compliance

2006-01-19 Thread Daniel Carrera
But you know? This also affects selling CDs at a conference. If you are at a confernece giving out CDs, you are not offering access to copy. So giving them the option to burn a source CD for them wouldn't count. Correct? Daniel. Michael Poole wrote: Section 3 of the GPL does not seem to

Re: Question on GPL compliance

2006-01-19 Thread Michael Poole
Daniel Carrera writes: But you know? This also affects selling CDs at a conference. If you are at a confernece giving out CDs, you are not offering access to copy. So giving them the option to burn a source CD for them wouldn't count. Correct? I would distinguish that case by the cost. If

Re: Question on GPL compliance

2006-01-19 Thread Daniel Carrera
Michael Poole wrote: I would distinguish that case by the cost. If your web site has a checkbox that the user can check to receive the source CD at no additional cost, then I think your situation would be the same as the situation at a conference. At the conference I would be giving the

Re: Question on GPL compliance

2006-01-19 Thread Michael Poole
Daniel Carrera writes: Michael Poole wrote: I would distinguish that case by the cost. If your web site has a checkbox that the user can check to receive the source CD at no additional cost, then I think your situation would be the same as the situation at a conference. At the

Re: Question on GPL compliance

2006-01-19 Thread Alexander Terekhov
On 1/19/06, Daniel Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Alright, thanks. I guess we'll ship two CDs then. I am very risk adverse and I don't want to worry about the sources. Even if you feel under obligation to do what the GPL decrees, your customers can of course make a promise not to come

Re: Question on GPL compliance

2006-01-19 Thread Daniel Carrera
Michael Poole wrote: The GPL only explicitly permits this for the three-year written offer case. Perhaps suggest that GPLv3 allow it? The three year offer is precisely what I'm trying to avoid. I don't know where I'll be in three years, and I don't want to worry about being able to provide

Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-19 Thread Walter Landry
Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 02:15:09PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: No covered work constitutes part of an effective technological protection measure: that is to say,

Anti-DMCA clause (was Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-19 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Arnoud Engelfriet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the DMCA actually speaks about access to the work (17 U.S.C. 1201): (2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part

Re: Question on GPL compliance

2006-01-19 Thread Gervase Markham
Michael Poole wrote: The GPL only explicitly permits this for the three-year written offer case. Perhaps suggest that GPLv3 allow it? I agree with Daniel that it would be sensible to permit this, and I've actually made this suggestion already on their rather cool commenting webtool. Here's the

Re: Clause 7d (was Re: Ironies abound (was Re: GPL v3 draft)

2006-01-19 Thread Gervase Markham
Nathanael Nerode wrote: So here it is: 7d. They may require that propagation of a covered work which causes it to have users other than You, must enable all users of the work to make and receive copies of the work. I like this, together with Arnoud's suggestions. But Walter is right; the

Re: Anti-DMCA clause (was Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-19 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Nathanael Nerode wrote: No program licensed under this License, which accesses a work, shall require the authority of the copyright owner for that work, in order to gain access to that work. I'm not sure how a program _can_ require authority of a copyright holder? Did you mean The exercise

Re: Ironies abound (was Re: GPL v3 draft)

2006-01-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 02:46:52PM +0100, Yorick Cool wrote: What is it you need to get rid of trolls? Fire? A billy goat gruff, if I remember my mythology correctly. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Moglen's all good faith

2006-01-19 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Hey legals, enjoy Moglen speaking on one-way street, linking, etc. http://news.com.com/Defender+of+the+GPL/2008-1082_3-6028495.html Now, One specific area where the linking question arises is in the Linux kernel, where proprietary video drivers loaded are loaded as modules. Another one

Re: GR: GFDL Position Statement

2006-01-19 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:32:48 +0100 Gerfried Fuchs wrote: [...] * Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au [2006-01-18 11:01]: There are currently two proposals in discussion on debian-vote regarding a position statement on the GNU Free Documentation License. The texts are available at

Re: Anti-DMCA clause (was Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-19 Thread Walter Landry
Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hrrm. We need a different clause then. No program licensed under this License, which accesses a work, shall require the authority of the copyright owner for that work, in order to gain access to that work. This is too broad. If I have a machine on

Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 07:53:46AM +0100, Arnoud Engelfriet wrote: Nathanael Nerode wrote: Effective technological protection measure is supposed to mean Effective technological protection measure for preventing copying or distribution. I think the DMCA actually speaks about access to

Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-19 Thread Alexander Terekhov
On 1/19/06, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] (Of course, laws and courts have free reign to interpret words in any way that suits their agenda, so effectively probably really means pretends to ...) It meansin effect here. regards, alexander.

Re: GR: GFDL Position Statement

2006-01-19 Thread Josh Triplett
Francesco Poli wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:32:48 +0100 Gerfried Fuchs wrote: * Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au [2006-01-18 11:01]: As an example I want to question if I would have to move xblast* to contrib, because the graphics are rendered with povray, or if there is no need for it?

Re: Moglen's all good faith

2006-01-19 Thread Måns Rullgård
Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey legals, enjoy Moglen speaking on one-way street, linking, etc. http://news.com.com/Defender+of+the+GPL/2008-1082_3-6028495.html Now, One specific area where the linking question arises is in the Linux kernel, where proprietary video

Re: Anti-DMCA clause (was Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:58:08PM -0800, Walter Landry wrote: Accordingly, no program licensed under this License is a technological measure which effectively controls access to any work. Again, writing this sentence into the license doesn't make it true. It is decided by external

Re: Moglen's all good faith

2006-01-19 Thread Alexander Terekhov
On 1/20/06, Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Moglen: In all good faith, I can't tell you. If the kernel were pure GPL in its license terms, the answer...would be: You couldn't link proprietary video drivers into it whether dynamically or statically, and you couldn't link

Re: Moglen's all good faith

2006-01-19 Thread Andrew Donnellan
There are some (bad) parts in the linux kernel that are not GPL, and even some parts which could be considered non-free. Look through the individual file copyright notices. andrew On 1/20/06, Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/20/06, Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...]

Re: Anti-DMCA clause (was Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-19 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 1/20/06, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There seems to be some rift between the law and reality, though. If the law is taken literally, it's a no-op: it forbids writing software that can't be written (if you write software for an effective protection scheme, then, well, it's not

Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:52:43PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: Eben had a really humorous explanation, which I will attempt to paraphrase from my (impressively imperfect) memory: No lawyer knows exactly why we have been shouting at eachother for the past 50(?) years; but since everyone

Re: Anti-DMCA clause (was Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-19 Thread Alexander Terekhov
On 1/20/06, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] (Unfortunately, I don't speak that language ...) Hey legals, drop this link http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=effectively to poor Maynard. regards, alexander.

Re: Moglen's all good faith

2006-01-19 Thread Alexander Terekhov
On 1/20/06, Andrew Donnellan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are some (bad) parts in the linux kernel that are not GPL, and even some parts which could be considered non-free. Look through the individual file copyright notices. Sorry, but under Moglen's own theory, it is enough to have a tiny

Re: Moglen's all good faith

2006-01-19 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 1/20/06, Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/20/06, Andrew Donnellan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are some (bad) parts in the linux kernel that are not GPL, and even some parts which could be considered non-free. Look through the individual file copyright notices. Sorry,

Re: GR: GFDL Position Statement

2006-01-19 Thread Andrew Donnellan
Umm, Kpovmodeler isn't a renderer, it's a modelling program that calls POVRay to actually render it. So KPovModeler should be in contrib. Andrew On 1/20/06, Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Francesco Poli wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:32:48 +0100 Gerfried Fuchs wrote: * Anthony Towns

Re: Moglen's all good faith

2006-01-19 Thread Måns Rullgård
Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 1/20/06, Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Moglen: In all good faith, I can't tell you. If the kernel were pure GPL in its license terms, the answer...would be: You couldn't link proprietary video drivers into it whether

Re: Moglen's all good faith

2006-01-19 Thread Alexander Terekhov
On 1/20/06, Andrew Donnellan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] GNU GPL'd. And, BTW, how come that the FSF's compliance lab didn't purify the kernel of *GNU*/Linux? Because FSF doesn't own any copyrights in Linux - it doesn't contribute. Well, quote author=Moglen The Foundation notes that

Re: Moglen's all good faith

2006-01-19 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Alexander Terekhov said on Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 02:33:08AM +0100,: On 1/20/06, Andrew Donnellan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] GNU GPL'd. And, BTW, how come that the FSF's compliance lab didn't purify the kernel of *GNU*/Linux? Because FSF doesn't own any copyrights in Linux -

Re: GR: GFDL Position Statement

2006-01-19 Thread Josh Triplett
Andrew Donnellan wrote: Umm, Kpovmodeler isn't a renderer, it's a modelling program that calls POVRay to actually render it. So KPovModeler should be in contrib. Hmmm. The description certainly didn't give that indication, nor did the fact that povray was only in Suggests. If it has no