Re: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-04-10 Thread Andrew Donnellan
Ask the new DPL (aj) I guess. andrew On 4/10/06, Mike Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dann wrote: Thank you for your offer. I think a relicensing would be the cleanest approach. Note that I am a Debian Developer, but I do not speak for the db packaging, release, or legal teams. I

Re: Against DRM 1.0

2006-04-10 Thread Max Brown
Bad solution: in this way the license is compatible only with itself. However, artworks are different from functional works: the concept of derivative work is not the same (it is not necessary to specify "in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof", because a

kscope licences

2006-04-10 Thread Fathi Boudra
hi all, i've got an ITP pending about kscope, and it seems that there's a problem on licences incompatibility: * from upstream website : Some people have suggested that, despite the move to a two-clause BSD license, KScope still violates the conditions of either the GPL (Qt) or the CPL

Re: kscope licences

2006-04-10 Thread MJ Ray
Fathi Boudra [EMAIL PROTECTED] i've got an ITP pending about kscope, and it seems that there's a problem on licences incompatibility: * from upstream website : [...] KScope (BSD License) dynamically links with KDE (LGPL?), Qt (GPL) and graphviz (CPL). [...] The solution seems to be --

[Fwd: Re: avidemux in Debian]

2006-04-10 Thread Cyrille Bollu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dears, (should you reply, please keep me cc'ed) According to avidemux's author, it cannot be part of Debian due to license/patent restriction on mpeg2/mpeg4 encoding/decoding parts. However, this sounds strange to me: Should it be the case, what

Re: Against DRM 1.0

2006-04-10 Thread Lewis Jardine
Alexander Terekhov wrote: On 4/10/06, Lewis Jardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The GPL uses this language because it is intended to apply not only to derivative works, but also to works that aren't derivative but do contain the work. Yeah, right. The intent is that if you somehow

Re: Mozilla relicensing complete

2006-04-10 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 08:40:55PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: According to Gervase Markham, the mozilla relicensing process has now completed; all source files now fall under the GPL, LGPL, and MPL: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2006/03/relicensing_complete.html Wow. I had