Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-09-01 Thread Ben Finney
Steve McIntyre writes: > Really, by now the regulars here all know what you think about various > licenses and, frankly, we don't care to hear about it any more. Is this forum only for the regulars, then? Much of the value would, IMO, be for newcomers raising an issue here even if regulars have

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-09-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
Francesco Poli wrote: >On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 14:37:24 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote: > >[...] >> You have a right to your own opinion. You do *not* have a right to express >> it *on this list*. The purpose of this list is to provide guidance to >> maintainers and upstreams regarding *Debian's* definit

Re: AGPL request for summary of recent discussion

2013-09-01 Thread Thorsten Glaser
MJ Ray writes: > Look, […] My reply was specifically to this newsgroup, a long-needed “request” to shut up, and explicitly *not* soliciting *your* personal(!) opinion on those licences either. I do not require the “added value”, and this newsgroup is spammed enough by the likes of you two. Besid

Re: rtl-sdr packaging: Unable to find copyrtight holders for some files

2013-09-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 03:31:00PM +0200, "Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)" wrote: > Hello! > > I packaged rtl-sdr [1] a while ago but I'm having a serious legal > issue. Some files related to DVB-T tuners don't have any headers and > upstream [2] didn't answer my call for help... > > "tuner_fc2580.{c,h}"

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-09-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 11:39:16AM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte a écrit : > > Perhaps you'd be interested in helping: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/01/msg00043.html I can not write your explanations for you, sorry. I have read the diff between the versions 2.0, 2.5 and 3.0 mutiple t

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-09-01 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 11:30:31PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Frankly speaking, "Debian's opinion" on the CC licenses does not exist. There > is the empirical observation that this or that CC license is accepted or > rejected from our archive, with both false positives and false

rtl-sdr packaging: Unable to find copyrtight holders for some files

2013-09-01 Thread Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)
Hello! I packaged rtl-sdr [1] a while ago but I'm having a serious legal issue. Some files related to DVB-T tuners don't have any headers and upstream [2] didn't answer my call for help... "tuner_fc2580.{c,h}" seem to come from a Terratec driver based on linux v4l project. I found a tarball

Re: AGPL request for summary of recent discussion

2013-09-01 Thread MJ Ray
On 29/08/13 16:15, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Francesco, [stuff] Look, there's a command in email software for sending a reply to one person. "Reply to List" or "Reply to All" is not it - if anyone is going to lecture others on how "to improve your communication behaviour", start by using the corre