Re: Problem with LARGE files

2007-05-01 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Jefferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Would it be reasonable to request someone had to spend £100 on an external hard disc and postage if they wanted to request the "source" to my program? and is there any way I could ever get such a program into Debian? Per

Re: New Ion3 licence

2007-05-01 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 01 May 2007 20:39:37 +0200 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 29 avril 2007 à 17:18 +0100, MJ Ray a écrit : > > Is this what is going to happen to free software as it becomes > > more popular? Every author's ego projection will trump sharing and > > redistribution? Heck, if their ego

Re: New Ion3 licence

2007-05-01 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 01 May 2007 20:33:16 +0200 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 28 avril 2007 à 02:27 +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : [...] > > This seems to mean that I can redistribute an *unaltered* package > > for 28 days from its initial release, then this permission suddenly > > *disappears*, *unless

Re: New Ion3 licence

2007-05-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 29 avril 2007 à 17:18 +0100, MJ Ray a écrit : > Is this what is going to happen to free software as it becomes > more popular? Every author's ego projection will trump sharing and > redistribution? Heck, if their ego is that demanding, why don't they call > the official version "Brian

Re: New Ion3 licence

2007-05-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 28 avril 2007 à 02:27 +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : > > Then I think you've misread. Patch clauses and name change clauses > > are explicitly allowed under the DFSG, although they are discouraged > > for obvious reasons. The fact that some revisionists dislike them > > doesn't make th

Re: Request for GR: clarifying the license text licensing / freeness issue

2007-05-01 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > > First of all, the interpretation we wish to claim consistency under is "all > > bits that are distributed by Debian must follow the DFSG". Copyright law is > > not distributed by Debian, and needs no exception. > Neither do licenses, which are distri

Re: Request for GR: clarifying the license text licensing / freeness issue

2007-05-01 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 09:25 -0700, Ken Arromdee wrote: > I still don't see the problem. > > First of all, the interpretation we wish to claim consistency under is "all > bits that are distributed by Debian must follow the DFSG". Copyright law is > not distributed by Debian, and needs no exception