Re: AMQP license

2007-12-06 Thread John Halton
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:04:43AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > For instance: from a quick glance, I couldn't find any permission to > distribute modified versions of the specification (even under a > different name). If there's no such permission, then the > specification fails DFSG#3/DFSG#4 ...

Re: AMQP license

2007-12-06 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:48:42 + John Halton wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:36:53AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > > I think that the original question was more about the DFSG-freeness > > of the AMQP specification itself, rather than about the possibility > > of developing DFSG-free program

Re: AMQP license

2007-12-06 Thread John Halton
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:36:53AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > I think that the original question was more about the DFSG-freeness > of the AMQP specification itself, rather than about the possibility > of developing DFSG-free programs which follow the specification... I'm not sure how one woul

Re: AMQP license

2007-12-06 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 11:08:36 + John Halton wrote: > On 06/12/2007, John Leuner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I would like to ask if the following license meets the DFSG. Clause > > ii of the license says that the license is terminated if you sue any > > author. > > I don't think that in its

Re: Final text of AGPL v3

2007-12-06 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 18:46:57 + John Halton wrote: [...] > As regards the AGPL web server and other similar > hypotheticals, I think this would come down to user/community > pressure: i.e. if someone chooses a licence that is impractical then > either the software won't find many users, or the l

Some questions about eaccelerator-package

2007-12-06 Thread Alexander GQ Gerasiov
Hello there. I ask for advise. PHP uses its own OpenSource license which is incompatible with GPL for some reasons. eAccelerator[1] is a PHP extension which speeds up php scrips at 10 times and do some more things (content caching, session handling etc.) But it is licensed under GPL and unfortun

Re: Final text of AGPL v3

2007-12-06 Thread John Halton
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 06:44:52PM +0100, Lasse Reichstein Holst Nielsen wrote: > So an interactive AGPL program *must* have a prominent way of giving > information to the user. This breaks for any server where the return > format is restricted (web servers should not insert content on > delivered

Re: Review-request for Mugshot Trademark Guidelines

2007-12-06 Thread John Halton
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 04:40:43PM -0500, Joe Smith wrote: > > "John Halton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> >>> 3. If they charge a fee for the CD-ROM or other media on which >>> they deliver the Mugshotâ„¢ code, they warranty the media on >>>

Re: Final text of AGPL v3

2007-12-06 Thread Lasse Reichstein Holst Nielsen
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:35:35 +0100, John Halton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For now, as regards the "interaction" issue my inclination is to assume that it is implicit in this that (a) we are talking about some level of direct input/output interaction from the user's point of view. i.e. softwar

Re: AMQP license

2007-12-06 Thread John Halton
On 06/12/2007, John Leuner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to ask if the following license meets the DFSG. Clause ii > of the license says that the license is terminated if you sue any > author. I don't think that in itself makes the licence non-free (the CDDL includes a similar provisio

AMQP license

2007-12-06 Thread John Leuner
I would like to ask if the following license meets the DFSG. Clause ii of the license says that the license is terminated if you sue any author. The license appears at the top of the amqp specification downloaded from: https://jira.amqp.org/confluence/download/attachments/720900/amqp0-8.xml?versi