Re: Bug#460591: Falcon P.L. license (ITP:Bug#460591)

2008-04-08 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
MJ Ray wrote: Giancarlo Niccolai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray wrote: Anyway, this is the show-stopper. Contaminates other software. DFSG 9. It's the parts of FPL sections 1, 2 and 5 about Scripts. Clear enough? Yes, your position is now clear, thanks. Yet, I

Re: Bug#460591: Falcon P.L. license (ITP:Bug#460591)

2008-04-01 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
MJ Ray wrote: Giancarlo Niccolai [EMAIL PROTECTED] skribis: MJ Ray wrote: [...] In general, I'm disappointed to see this licence proliferation. I am too. There isn't any single open source mainstream programming language or even compiler I know, including clisp, gcc, PHP

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-31 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Walter Landry wrote: Giancarlo Niccolai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working now at this. However, I have a notice in every file stating that the file is released under the terms described in the LICENSE file that must come bound with the sources

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-30 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Walter Landry wrote: Giancarlo Niccolai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Walter Landry wrote: Giancarlo Niccolai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In example, I can release Falcon as a Debian package under GPL, and let users pick FPLL if they wish. That would

Re: Falcon P.L. license (ITP:Bug#460591)

2008-03-28 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
Falcon with GPLv3. If you want to get more restrictions, I am not stopping you... :-) Bests, Giancarlo Niccolai. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Falcon P.L. license (ITP:Bug#460591)

2008-03-27 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josselin Mouette wrote: On ven, 2008-03-21 at 10:09 +0100, Giancarlo Niccolai wrote: This clause makes the license a copyleft one. It is free, but this is a huge restriction compared to the original license. And this turns the license into yet

Re: Falcon P.L. license (ITP:Bug#460591)

2008-03-27 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josselin Mouette wrote: On sam, 2008-03-22 at 22:33 +0100, Giancarlo Niccolai wrote: Have you considered the GNU LGPL (v2.1)? Yes, but I encountered strong resistance from FSF when proposing a lighter (with exceptions) LGPL version

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-25 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Walter Landry wrote: Giancarlo Niccolai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In example, I can release Falcon as a Debian package under GPL, and let users pick FPLL if they wish. That would be perfect. Many other programs in Debian are dual-licensed

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-25 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
, The idea I tried to follow is exactly that to free the language definition from any possible current and future claim (i.e. through non-patentability). Bests, Giancarlo Niccolai. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: Bug#460591: Falcon P.L. license (ITP:Bug#460591)

2008-03-25 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MJ Ray wrote: Giancarlo Niccolai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The license is tightly based on Apache 2, with extra clarifications and permissions. [...] Summary: I believe that any interpreter under this Falcon P.L. licence will contaminate

Re: Falcon P.L. license (ITP:Bug#460591)

2008-03-22 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Francesco Poli wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:09:27 +0100 Giancarlo Niccolai wrote: [...] In other words, the aim of this comma is to prevent someone from adding a frobotz statement which nitfols the blorbs, and then distribute an xFalcon

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-22 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Francesco Poli wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:35:16 +0100 (CET) Giancarlo Niccolai wrote: | Embedding Works shall mean any work, whether in Source | or Object form, that links (or binds by name) to the | interface of the Work and Derivative

Re: Falcon P.L. license (ITP:Bug#460591)

2008-03-21 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josselin Mouette wrote: On mer, 2008-03-19 at 20:34 +0100, Giancarlo Niccolai wrote: The license is tightly based on Apache 2, with extra clarifications and permissions. This is, well, an interesting claim. 4. *Redistribution of Work

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-20 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
Francesco Poli wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:59:33 +0100 Giancarlo Niccolai wrote: I assume you mean that you would like to have your license analyzed or revised by debian-legal. Yes, sorry, the word was eaten while editing :-/ The license is tightly based on Apache 2, with extra

ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-19 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
with a legal advice. In the meanwhile, I have opened an ITP bug, for which Debian Legal clearance is needed. Here follows the text of the license. TIA , Giancarlo Niccolai. == Falcon Programming Language License Version 1.0, February 2005 http

Falcon P.L. license (ITP:Bug#460591)

2008-03-19 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
with a legal advice. In the meanwhile, I have opened an ITP bug, for which Debian Legal clearance is needed. Here follows the text of the license. TIA , Giancarlo Niccolai. == Falcon Programming Language License Version 1.0, February 2005 http