Re: Logo trademark license vs. copyright license

2007-04-13 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Francesco Poli wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:06:39 +0200 Arnoud Engelfriet wrote: Your use of the trademark may not create a sense of endorsement, sponsorship, or false association with the trademark holder. Your use of the trademark may not diminish the distinctiveness of the

Re: Logo trademark license vs. copyright license

2007-04-13 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:54:47 +0200 Arnoud Engelfriet wrote: Francesco Poli wrote: [...] Anyway, I have a question: does the latter (may not [...] harm the reputation of the trademark holder) prevent me from stating Debian GNU/Linux sucks badly Good point. I would say no, as long as

Re: Logo trademark license vs. copyright license

2007-04-13 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Francesco Poli wrote: How would the revised wording look like? Basically, you need to forbid people from doing things with the mark that create confusion or that make it look like these things are endorsed by the Debian Project (or SPI?). I could imagine something like this would be a good

Re: Can mysql-nonfree be resurrected?

2007-04-13 Thread David Claughton
Francesco Poli wrote: [...] You shall not publish or distribute this documentation in any form or on any media, except if you distribute the documentation in a manner similar to how MySQL disseminates it (that is, electronically for download on a Web site with the software) or on a CD-ROM or

Re: Logo trademark license vs. copyright license

2007-04-13 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:28:15 +0200 Arnoud Engelfriet wrote: Francesco Poli wrote: How would the revised wording look like? Basically, you need to forbid people from doing things with the mark that create confusion or that make it look like these things are endorsed by the Debian Project

Request for help in checking GPL-compatibility

2007-04-13 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Dear people, Please tell me gently if I am in the wrong place to ask this question. I would like to know whether the Swiss Ephemeris Public Licence which can be found at: ftp://astro.com/pub/swisseph/src/LICENSE is GPL-compatible or not. That is, can I write a program based on this library

Re: Request for help in checking GPL-compatibility

2007-04-13 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 4/14/07, Shriramana Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I pointed out to them that the SEPL does not have the modifications to be redistributed as patches only restriction which is the basic problem with the QPL, but after that I did not get any reply from them at all. 2. You may copy and

BSD MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-13 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
Hello, Please consider the following scenarios to help me better understand whether BSD* and MIT code are compatible. *I am referring to the 3-clause BSD license: http://opensource.org/osi3.0/licenses/bsd-license.php Scenario Suppose that (1) I have two C source files (mit.c and

Re: BSD MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-13 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 4/14/07, Suraj N. Kurapati [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remarks === The BSD is not compatible with the MIT license because it has an additional condition (i.e. you cannot use copyright holder's names to promote the product) that the MIT license lacks. Um, neither the BSD nor the MIT

Re: BSD MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-13 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
Andrew Donnellan wrote: On 4/14/07, Suraj N. Kurapati [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The BSD is not compatible with the MIT license because it has an additional condition (i.e. you cannot use copyright holder's names to promote the product) that the MIT license lacks. Um, neither the BSD nor the

Re: BSD MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-13 Thread Joe Smith
Suraj N. Kurapati [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew Donnellan wrote: On 4/14/07, Suraj N. Kurapati [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The BSD is not compatible with the MIT license because it has an additional condition (i.e. you cannot use copyright holder's names to

Re: BSD MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-13 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 4/14/07, Suraj N. Kurapati [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wonderful! Thanks for the clarification. :-) So when I appended bsd.c to mit.c, did the entire mit.c become licensed under both licenses? That is, did the originally-MIT portions of mit.c inherit the extra condition from the BSD license?

Re: BSD MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-13 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
Andrew Donnellan wrote: On 4/14/07, Suraj N. Kurapati [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So when I appended bsd.c to mit.c, did the entire mit.c become licensed under both licenses? That is, did the originally-MIT portions of mit.c inherit the extra condition from the BSD license? The combination of

Re: BSD MIT licenses compatible?

2007-04-13 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 4/14/07, Suraj N. Kurapati [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to extract the originally-MIT portions from the file and act upon them only according to the MIT license? Yes, because if you can extract the exact portions that are MIT licensed there's no way you could tell the difference