Re: Policy on Binary Firmware Fetching in Main (e.g. foo2zjs)

2007-11-15 Thread John Halton
On 15/11/2007, Michael Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i don't see a difference. if any part of the package requires access to non-free data to function correctly, then the entire package should be considered to depend on non-free. this is different from the compiz situation where the

Re: Java, GPL and CDDL

2007-11-15 Thread John Halton
On 15/11/2007, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You first need to be very carefull to find out the license for this software. It does not mention the GPL version number, which makes it hard to find the authors will. Given the fact that a lot of the files have not been touched since

Re: Java, GPL and CDDL

2007-11-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
John Halton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15/11/2007, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You first need to be very carefull to find out the license for this software. It does not mention the GPL version number, which makes it hard to find the authors will. Given the fact that a lot

Re: Java, GPL and CDDL

2007-11-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 15 novembre 2007 à 17:04 +0100, Joerg Schilling a écrit : CarMetal uses colorchooser https://colorchooser.dev.java.net/ wich is CDDL licensed. If colorchooser has been developed independently from CaRMetal, and only CaRMetal calls colorchooser, it is indeed similar to what happens

Re: Policy on Binary Firmware Fetching in Main (e.g. foo2zjs)

2007-11-15 Thread Frank Küster
Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com writes: Stephen Gran wrote: That being said, packages that exist solely to download external non-free content have traditionally been considered contrib material. If this is just a helper script that nothing else in the package uses, it

Re: Java, GPL and CDDL

2007-11-15 Thread John Halton
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 09:09:04PM +0100, Alexander Terekhov wrote: I think that being a lawyer you will agree that existing version or later is *at most* a permission given by the original licensor to direct licensees (i.e. parties entering version two contract) to SUBLICENSE (licensees can

Re: Java, GPL and CDDL

2007-11-15 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:15:25 + John Halton wrote: On 15/11/2007, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [usual unbacked assertions and handwaving by Mr. Schilling...] It is possible the licence uses the version two or later version of the GPL, which would allow the software to be

Re: Java, GPL and CDDL

2007-11-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
I am wondering if Java GPLed application can link with CDDL classes? Case looks like the cdrecord question i saw in the archive. The case is in CarMetal (geometrical program derived from the wondeful CaR from René Grothman) http://db-maths.nuxit.net/CaRMetal/ You first need to be very carefull