Re: GFDL and cover texts

2007-08-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 07 août 2007 à 10:48 -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso a écrit : But we can't modify the COPYING file in a source tarball, and that's ok. Why isn't a cover text like a GNU manual also acceptable? IIRC, we also accepted invariant stuff in code comments. Cover texts are *functional*

Skype license

2007-08-12 Thread Øystein Gisnås
I got a request from a Skype employee who was eager to distribute Skype with Debian. I replied that the current license probably is not compatible with DFSG and promised to ask debian-legal what has to be done with Skype's license to make it distributable. In it's current form, I don't think

Re: Skype license

2007-08-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 10:53:42PM +0200, Øystein Gisnås wrote: I got a request from a Skype employee who was eager to distribute Skype with Debian. I replied that the current license probably is not compatible with DFSG Are you joking? http://www.skype.com/help/faq/technical.html:

Re: Skype license

2007-08-12 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11109 March 1977, Øystein Gisnås wrote: I got a request from a Skype employee who was eager to distribute Skype with Debian. I replied that the current license probably is not compatible with DFSG and promised to ask debian-legal what has to be done with Skype's license to make it

Re: Skype license

2007-08-12 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Øystein Gisnås said: I got a request from a Skype employee who was eager to distribute Skype with Debian. I replied that the current license probably is not compatible with DFSG and promised to ask debian-legal what has to be done with Skype's license to make it

Re: Skype license

2007-08-12 Thread Ben Finney
Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11109 March 1977, Øystein Gisnås wrote: I got a request from a Skype employee who was eager to distribute Skype with Debian. I replied that the current license probably is not compatible with DFSG and promised to ask debian-legal what has to be