Re: Legality of analysing DSDT table

2014-08-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Mateusz Jończyk writes (Legality of analysing DSDT table): I am working on some bug in Linux kernel that is probably somehow related to ACPI. Would it be legal if a bug reporter in India sent me his DSDT table and I would then decompile and analyse it? You seem to be in Poland. I think there

Re: Zend Engine License

2014-08-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Riley Baird writes (Re: Zend Engine License): On 02/08/14 16:30, MJ Ray wrote: I notice that Zend framework seems to be under a BSD style licence, without that sort of clause. It is in the php5 package. Here is the d/copyright file:

Re: Translated License

2014-08-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Georg Pfeiffer writes (Translated License): We intend to give the whole project a default license wich is a german translation of the MIT license [2]. The english text is included. Our intention is, that the german text shall be more clear and more convenient to german project members

Re: [PHP-QA] Debian and the PHP license

2014-08-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Charles Plessy writes (Re: [PHP-QA] Debian and the PHP license): I think that it is important that a few of the ‘some members’ would identify themselves in support for that request, and explain what they would do if the worries expressed below turned out to be true. At the moment people are

Re: [PHP-QA] Debian and the PHP license

2014-08-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Francesco Poli writes (Re: [PHP-QA] Debian and the PHP license): On Fri, 1 Aug 2014 16:59:11 +0100 Ian Jackson wrote: Paragraph 6 of the main licence text requires this notice: This product includes PHP software, freely available from http://www.php.net/software/. I would also

Re: [PHP-QA] Debian and the PHP license

2014-08-04 Thread Ian Jackson
(-project dropped from the CC) MJ Ray writes (Re: [PHP-QA] Debian and the PHP license): Secondly, unless it says otherwise, a naming restriction in a copyright licence doesn't permit honest source attribution and all the other nominative and fair uses that a trademark would. This is more of a

PHP licence SFLC questions draft v3

2014-08-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Draft question for SFLC: Some members of the Debian project have some concerns about the PHP licence. These worries are dismissed by other members and by relevant upstreams. We would like some advice. We are concerned here with the PHP 3.01 Licences, which can be found here:

Re: PHP licence SFLC questions draft v3

2014-08-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (PHP licence SFLC questions draft v3): Some members of the Debian project have some concerns about the PHP licence. These worries are dismissed by other members and by relevant upstreams. We would like some advice. We are concerned here with the PHP 3.01 Licences, which

Re: Translated License

2014-08-04 Thread Georg Pfeiffer
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: There is nothing wrong with a copyright licence in German. Thank you very much for this clear position, wich seemed to be mine only for discouraging long times :D My german combattants bothered, our german license would be estimated non-free

Re: Translated License

2014-08-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Georg Pfeiffer writes (Re: Translated License): Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: There is nothing wrong with a copyright licence in German. Thank you very much for this clear position, wich seemed to be mine only for discouraging long times :D My german combattants

Re: Translated License

2014-08-04 Thread Georg Pfeiffer
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: We make our own decisions. Thats why I love it. :) Georg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Standardization documents in xsd and wsdl format

2014-08-04 Thread MJ Ray
On 11 July 2014 16:20:45 CEST, Mattias Ellert mattias.ell...@fysast.uu.se wrote: Standardization bodies tend to want to not have random people making random changes to their standardization documents that would create incompatible versions of the standards. The documentation licenses used by

Re: [PHP-QA] Debian and the PHP license

2014-08-04 Thread MJ Ray
On 4 August 2014 13:26:11 GMT+01:00, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: (-project dropped from the CC) MJ Ray writes (Re: [PHP-QA] Debian and the PHP license): Secondly, unless it says otherwise, a naming restriction in a copyright licence doesn't permit honest source