Re: PHP License for PHP Group packages

2006-02-04 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 17:46:21 -0800 Steve Langasek wrote: Well, I'm still not happy about the don't use the PHP name clause, but we seem to be ignoring that clause everywhere else at the moment. So for packages that have the PHP Group as their upstream, I think it's reasonable to close the

Re: PHP License for PHP Group packages

2006-02-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:41:47AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 17:46:21 -0800 Steve Langasek wrote: Well, I'm still not happy about the don't use the PHP name clause, but we seem to be ignoring that clause everywhere else at the moment. So for packages that have the

Re: libgsm: right to distribute

2006-02-04 Thread Michael Poole
Simon Neininger writes: Hi! ---8 Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 by Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann, Technische Universitaet Berlin Any use of this software is permitted provided that this notice is not removed and that neither the authors nor the Technische Universitaet Berlin are

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-02-04 Thread Walter Landry
olive [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, there are licenses which in my opinion more clearly violates the DFSGL and are nevertheless accepted. I think of a license of a file in x.org which prohibit to export it to Cuba. This seems clearly be a discrimination and moreover it fails the

Re: libgsm: right to distribute

2006-02-04 Thread Walter Landry
Simon Neininger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! ---8 Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 by Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann, Technische Universitaet Berlin Any use of this software is permitted provided that this notice is not removed and that neither the authors nor the Technische

Re: gpl and hosted apps

2006-02-04 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 23:16:38 -0800 (PST) Mark Rafn wrote: On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, David M.Besonen wrote: worded differently, am i the only one that sees hosting gpl'd apps minus source as permissive and not in the spirit of copyleft? You are not. Many, including myself, also see it as not

Re: PHP License for PHP Group packages

2006-02-04 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 20:11:43 -0500 Glenn Maynard wrote: On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 01:49:06AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: Wasn't this issue solved in Apache License Version 2.0? The license, yes, but a quick look at /usr/share/doc/apache2/copyright shows some pieces that still use the old

Re: Squiz.net Open Source License - is it free?

2006-02-04 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:47:39 +1100 Andrew Donnellan wrote: 1. Right of use 1.1 Subject to Clause 2 and the legal rights of any third party, You are granted a non-exclusive right to install, view, copy, modify, alter and add to the Software (in source or object code form) in any way. However:

Re: libgsm: right to distribute

2006-02-04 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Simon Neininger wrote: Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 by Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann, Technische Universitaet Berlin Carsten is my thesis counsellor, I'll ask him for clarification. I have no reason to believe that distribution is not permitted, though. Cheers, Moritz -- To

Re: libgsm: right to distribute

2006-02-04 Thread Alexander Terekhov
On 2/4/06, Simon Neininger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Does the term Any use give the user the right to distribute libgsm? The right to distribute authorized copies is statutory. See 17 USC 109 (it is commonly called first sale, but the actual parameters of the rule are specified in the

Re: Distriution of GPL incompatible libraries

2006-02-04 Thread bug1
Quoting Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is tricky. The relevant section in the GPL is But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for

Re: libgsm: right to distribute

2006-02-04 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 07:19:28PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Simon Neininger wrote: Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 by Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann, Technische Universitaet Berlin Carsten is my thesis counsellor, I'll ask him for clarification. I have no reason to believe that

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Re: Distriution of GPL incompatible libraries

2006-02-04 Thread Alexander Terekhov
On 2/4/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I hope i have it right this time... In the GNU Republic you'll end up in jail. One of the questions with the GPL is about how tightly you may link GPL code with non-GPL code, for example, when you compile a GPL program and it uses

Re: PHP License for PHP Group packages

2006-02-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This sounds like Since we have ignored this issue in the past, we must go on forever ignoring it, even though it *is* a DFSG-freeness issue No, this sounds like since so far everybody but the law.kooks agreed that this is DFSG-free it's wrong to change our interpretation

Re: PHP License for PHP Group packages

2006-02-04 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 03:16:38 -0800 Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:41:47AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] This sounds like Since we have ignored this issue in the past, we must go on forever ignoring it, even though it *is* a DFSG-freeness issue No, it's throwing

Re: Distriution of GPL incompatible libraries

2006-02-04 Thread Walter Landry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is tricky. The relevant section in the GPL is But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this

Re: Distriution of GPL incompatible libraries

2006-02-04 Thread Alexander Terekhov
On 2/5/06, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is tricky. The relevant section in the GPL is But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the