Re: Re: About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2013-08-27 Thread roucaries bastien
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Fabian Greffrath fab...@greffrath.com wrote: Am Freitag, den 23.08.2013, 16:32 -0300 schrieb Rogério Brito: Anyway, back to URW Garamond No. 8, I guess that the letter that I wrote may still be relevant. Should I try sending it? Yes, please do so! Maybe we

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-08-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Paul Elliott wrote: A database of place names. Read in as data when the program runs. Which database are you talking about? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Re: About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2013-08-27 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Dienstag, den 27.08.2013, 10:44 +0200 schrieb roucaries bastien: Could you ask also for the fontforge source and not like the postscript font the resulting file ? We should be careful and not request too much at once from them. I once had a short mail with RMS about that topic and the FSF

AGPL request for summary of recent discussion

2013-08-27 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi, there were several threads around AGPL recently, mostly re-stirred due to Horracle using AGPLv3 for Berkeley DB. I was unable to follow them totally and remember there being raised at least two points: • The inability to provide security support for AGPL software (embargoed fixes)/ • The

Re: AGPL request for summary of recent discussion

2013-08-27 Thread Paul R. Tagliamonte
On Aug 27, 2013 8:15 AM, Thorsten Glaser t...@debian.org wrote: Hi, there were several threads around AGPL recently, mostly re-stirred due to Horracle using AGPLv3 for Berkeley DB. I was unable to follow them totally and remember there being raised at least two points: • The inability to

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-08-27 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 17:15:58 -0400 Paul Tagliamonte wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:00:38PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: I respectfully disagree: I am convinced that the GNU GPL is far better than any CC license, for both programmatic and non-programmatic works. But that's not the

Re: AGPL request for summary of recent discussion

2013-08-27 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 09:00:10 -0400 Paul R. Tagliamonte wrote: On Aug 27, 2013 8:15 AM, Thorsten Glaser t...@debian.org wrote: Hi, there were several threads around AGPL recently, mostly re-stirred due to Horracle using AGPLv3 for Berkeley DB. [...] In the recent discussions, the

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-08-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:55:33PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 17:15:58 -0400 Paul Tagliamonte wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:00:38PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: I respectfully disagree: I am convinced that the GNU GPL is far better than any CC license, for both

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-08-27 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:55:33PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: CC licenses may be perfectly fine in *your* opinion. Apparently in many other people's opinion, too. But they are not in *my* opinion. Sorry, this was not *my* opinion, it was *Debian*'s opinion. This *is* debian-legal, isn't it?