Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-30 Thread Jeremy Hankins
Ken Arromdee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Walter Landry wrote: These examples give partial specifications, not full specifications. I see no reason to read the GFDL as requiring only partial specifications. What's the difference between full specification for A, which is a

how to properly specify Public Domain?

2006-03-30 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, Summary: If there's a file in one of my packages that only declares to be in the public domain, do I have to contact the author and let him clarify this, or can I leave things as they are? I recall to have been told that, in order to make a piece of software free, it is not sufficient to

Re: how to properly specify Public Domain?

2006-03-30 Thread Patrick Herzig
Maybe this thread helps: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/06/msg00018.html On 30/03/06, Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Summary: If there's a file in one of my packages that only declares to be in the public domain, do I have to contact the author and let him clarify

Re: how to properly specify Public Domain?

2006-03-30 Thread Frank Küster
Patrick Herzig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe this thread helps: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/06/msg00018.html Sorry, not really (or I've missed the relevant mails). I read a lot about whether public domain licenses work as they are intended, and something about how to properly

Re: RFC: the new license for IBPP

2006-03-30 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El jueves, 30 de marzo de 2006 a las 16:33:59 +0300, Damyan Ivanov escribía: Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization (???You???) obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files covered by this license (the ???Software???) to use the

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-30 Thread Raul Miller
On 3/30/06, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 3/27/06, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those ludicrous conclusions do not follow logically from the claim, for such reasons as simple plane carriage not being a technical measure under the relevant

Re: how to properly specify Public Domain?

2006-03-30 Thread JC Helary
On 2006/03/30, at 21:04, Frank Küster wrote: On the other hand, I have learned meanwhile that in some legislations the term Public Domain does indeed have a defined meaning. From this I would conclude that declaring something Public Domain should be sufficient, and that effectively no

Re: how to properly specify Public Domain?

2006-03-30 Thread Frank Küster
JC Helary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Public domain is clearly defined in copyright law, and that should be so in any country that has any kind of copyright law. I fear there are a couple of countries that didn't obey your should. Copyright only extends to a certain period of time after which

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-30 Thread Raul Miller
On 3/26/06, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are distributing both, then the XML file is Transparent and the word file is opaque. My point was that the word file is never Transparent. I am not saying that the word file can not be distributed, but that it is never Transparent. I

Re: how to properly specify Public Domain?

2006-03-30 Thread Batist Paklons
This file is in the public domain is sufficient in Belgian legislation, and in any droit d'auteur legislation I know of. sincerely, Batist On 30/03/06, Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Summary: If there's a file in one of my packages that only declares to be in the public domain,

Re: how to properly specify Public Domain?

2006-03-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Frank Küster wrote: JC Helary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Public domain is clearly defined in copyright law, and that should be so in any country that has any kind of copyright law. I fear there are a couple of countries that didn't obey your should. And all that

Re: RFC: the new license for IBPP

2006-03-30 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:03:53 +0300 Damyan Ivanov wrote: Hi, Jacobo, Jacobo Tarrio wrote: [...] It allows to modify the library if it is needed to make it work with other piece of software (for that purpose == to use the Software as part of another work), but that wording does not

Re: Re: how to properly specify Public Domain?

2006-03-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And all that doesn't answer my question: Whether it's debian-legal's consensus that This file is in the public domain grants us enough rights to distribute it in main, or non-free, or not at all. It's good enough, if it's placed there by the author/former copyright

Re: Antique RC bugs (many about licensing)

2006-03-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 09:31:26PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Is it really DFSG-free to have a license which prohibits placing a copy you make of the document on an encrypted filesystem? Applying chmod o-r to it (on a multiuser system)? Putting a copy of it in a

Re: RFC: the new license for IBPP

2006-03-30 Thread Damyan Ivanov
=== The problematic? clause === Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization (”You”) obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files covered by this license (the “Software”) to use the Software as part of another work; to modify

Re: how to properly specify Public Domain?

2006-03-30 Thread Frank Küster
Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you've got the time to communicate with the author to request that, it'd be good. Otherwise, I don't believe the ftpmasters are requiring this from public domain works yet. Thank you, and to Nathanael. I'll interpret that as note that down, but care