Re: Bug #309257: libpano12: patent problems

2005-06-21 Thread Florent Bayle
Le Mardi 21 Juin 2005 18:10, Robert Jordens a écrit : severity 309257 grave tags 309257 - wontfix tags 309257 + sid etch thanks You should not remove wontfix tag, it's maintainer role to decide if he will fix the bug or not. Hey! * Florent Bayle: severity 309257 important tags

Re: Bug #309257: libpano12: patent problems

2005-06-21 Thread Florent Bayle
to think this patent is not really being actively enforced, or is an invalid patent? - it seems that there is prior art - the sourceforge project exists since 30/11/2003 and the developers haven't got any problems -- Florent Bayle pgpUI3b0hBGPr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Is VIGRA Artistic License licence free and GPL-compatible ?

2005-09-26 Thread Florent Bayle
Since someone want to package[1] Vigra library[2], I wan't to know if VIGRA Artistic License[3] is DFSG compatible and if I can use this library in a GPL'ed program. As far as I can see, this licence is free, but not compatible with GPL, because of : 4. You may otherwise modify your copy of

Re: Is VIGRA Artistic License licence free and GPL-compatible ?

2005-09-26 Thread Florent Bayle
Le Lundi 26 Septembre 2005 17:21, Humberto Massa a écrit : [...] And it's not GPL-compatible at all. Does that means that I can't use this library in a program under GPL ? In that case, how can some GPL'ed programs be linked with Win32 libraries under Windows ? Sorry for these stupid

VIGRA Artistic License changes

2005-10-07 Thread Florent Bayle
Hugin and Vigra Date: Vendredi 7 Octobre 2005 15:23 From: Ullrich Koethe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Florent Bayle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Florent, I like that idea that one cannot sell VIGRA as a source code library. As I understand, this is the same in a GPL-covered work, and I would ather like to keep

Re: Is the Debian swirl protected?

2005-11-17 Thread Florent Bayle
Le Jeudi 17 Novembre 2005 22:25, Juha Jäykkä a écrit : Hi all! I just happened to run into a company (http://www.stinghorn.com/), whose logo is very much like the Debian swirl logo and started to wonder if the swirl is protected in some manner. See

Packaging a software with moving licence

2005-12-21 Thread Florent Bayle
Hello, At http://www.vanheusden.com/unsort/ you can find a piece of software called unsort, which contains a file named licence.txt with the following contents : The license of this program can be obtained from: http://www.vanheusden.com/license.txt It is actually the GNU Public License. How

Re: FYI: Savannah seems to reject GPLv2 only projects

2006-03-21 Thread Florent Bayle
Le Mercredi 22 Mars 2006 01:13, Francesco Poli a écrit : [...] It seems that I must find another place to have my project hosted... Sourceforge provides services by running proprietary tools: I don't want to get used to something that is non-free (and could even suddenly become only available

Re: FYI: Savannah seems to reject GPLv2 only projects

2006-03-24 Thread Florent Bayle
Le Vendredi 24 Mars 2006 01:07, Francesco Poli a écrit : [...] On the other hand, TuxFamily seems rather interesting. One problem that _I_ have with TuxFamily is that almost all the web site texts are in French only: I speak Italian and English, but not quite French (I can manage to understand

Re: CircleMUD: licensing issues

2006-07-24 Thread Florent Bayle
Le lundi 24 juillet 2006 21:19, qweo a écrit : Hello! Can connoisseurs of DFSG terms tell, is CircleMUD license ( http://www.circlemud.org/license-faq.html ) DFSG-Free, and can i create package with it for main section of Debian archive? Best regards,qweo. P.S.: Please reply to me directly

Re: About vigra license

2006-09-16 Thread Florent Bayle
Le samedi 16 septembre 2006 19:46, Francesco Pedrini a écrit : !!! Please CC me since i'm not on this list !!! Hello, I'm working on enblend package right now. Enblend relies on the Vigra library, which is released under the The VIGRA Artistic License, a customization of Perl Artistic