Re: Bug#354216: upstream license patched in debian package

2006-02-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 24, Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know, no need to teach me. But what are you trying to say? Or are you That your change is a deliberate DMCA violation (circumvention of technological measures). -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: changing upstream's MODULE_LICENSE string in module source

2006-02-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Kel Modderman [Sat, Feb 25 2006, 10:15:11AM]: Ehm... Sorry, would you please read the license you are talking about? You did not even copy it to the report. slmodem-2.9.9e-pre1a/COPYING /* * *Copyright (c) 2001, Smart Link Ltd. *All rights reserved.

Re: Bug#354216: upstream license patched in debian package

2006-02-25 Thread Alexander Terekhov
On 2/25/06, Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 24, Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know, no need to teach me. But what are you trying to say? Or are you That your change is a deliberate DMCA violation (circumvention of technological measures).

Re: changing upstream's MODULE_LICENSE string in module source

2006-02-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Eduard Bloch wrote: The drivers do not load. They compile fine, but they do not load because some kernel developers think that they must throw stones into way of users (for whose sake?!). I have set the MODULE_LICENSE string to Dual BSD/GPL because I honestly think

Re: changing upstream's MODULE_LICENSE string in module source

2006-02-25 Thread Alexander Terekhov
On 2/25/06, Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] exist. Md raised his voice and he has a point, though a DMCA-threat in GPL context looks slightly absurd. Slightly?! - The authentication sequence, it is true, may well block one form of access—the ability to . . . make use of the

Re: changing upstream's MODULE_LICENSE string in module source

2006-02-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Alexander Terekhov [Sat, Feb 25 2006, 10:06:11PM]: On 2/25/06, Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] exist. Md raised his voice and he has a point, though a DMCA-threat in GPL context looks slightly absurd. Slightly?! - The authentication sequence, it is

Re: changing upstream's MODULE_LICENSE string in module source

2006-02-25 Thread Alexander Terekhov
On 2/25/06, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Next, the presence of the binary blobs, if they're actually needed, preclued this work from being compatible with the GPL. Sez who? The last I heard Moglen freed blobs. The Prof in GNU Law declared them to be fully resistant to the