Re: [IBPP-DISCUSS] IBPP license 1.0

2006-03-22 Thread Olivier Mascia
Dear, First, thanks for your time spent around these questions. Please see comments below. Le 20 mars 06 à 03:39, MJ Ray a écrit : Olivier Mascia [EMAIL PROTECTED] MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Most of the two above should be in README and AUTHORS, in my opinion. There is no such files with

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-22 Thread MJ Ray
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] For example, taking some GFDL'd documentation, embedding it in an executable, then making it available to users of a multi-user system with read and write permissions disabled (and only granting execute permissions) would constitute a violation of the GFDL if

Re: FYI: Savannah seems to reject GPLv2 only projects

2006-03-22 Thread MJ Ray
Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quote: We cannot accept GPLv2 only. That's dumb. Of course they *can*. They just don't want to. So, Savannah rejects free software now, just because some developers don't want to let people weld adverts into their manuals? Shame. [...] Other similar

Re: better licence for fosdem, debconf, .., videos...

2006-03-22 Thread MJ Ray
Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm puzzled: how can you say that Bob had no part in the *derived* work? He took no part in creating the new work from it. Does Linus Torvalds have no part in linux-image-2.6-*.deb? Debian Linux kernels are different from official kernel.org ones, but that

Re: Daniel Wallace case vs. FSF thrown out, ordered to pay costs

2006-03-22 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Well, you could have won EURO 50. Wanna bet whether Wallace will appeal and/or file Rule 60 Motion first? I bet EURO 50 that he will. Who's playing? regards, alexander.

Re: BOLA licence (darcsweb): free or not?

2006-03-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 08:08:50PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: It seems DFSG-free to me but who knows? I don't like licenses, because I don't like having to worry about all this legal stuff just for a simple piece of software I don't really mind anyone using. But I also believe that

Re: RFH: Non-free files in Emacs

2006-03-22 Thread Jérôme Marant
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathanael Nerode) writes: Files in the /etc directory of emacs21 which may be legally problematic follow. Thank you very much. This is an impressive piece of work. I'll take some time to read it cautiously and come back if any question. Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-22 Thread Raul Miller
On 3/22/06, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] For example, taking some GFDL'd documentation, embedding it in an executable, then making it available to users of a multi-user system with read and write permissions disabled (and only granting execute permissions)

Re: BOLA licence (darcsweb): free or not?

2006-03-22 Thread Nathanael Nerode
From the BOLA license: To all effects and purposes, this work is to be considered Public Domain. Justin Pryzby wrote: Some would complain that this doesn't give explicit permission to modify and/or distribute, and the typical suggestion is to use either the MIT license (liberal) or GPLv2