"Arnoud Engelfriet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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MJ Ray wrote:
Don't trademarks apply even less to included executable file names than
to
package names? They're not even used to label anything supplied in
trade.
They are names of controls used to operate the ma
"Maarten de Boer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Hello,
I would to know if the use of 'public domain' photos from the website
http://pdphoto.org/ to be distributed with an application would be
considered DFSG-compatible.
Most photo's come with a link to the CC pub
"Ben Finney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Maarten de Boer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you want to allow just about any use of the work, while still
> retaining copyright, you can distribute your work under the Expat
>
"Marco d'Itri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please clarify for me, in which section should go a GPL-licensed
package,
which is quite unusable without (but technically not Depends on), er,
obscure blobs of data, usually gathered by a way
"Arnoud Engelfriet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Michael Poole wrote:
Arnoud Engelfriet writes:
> However I didn't see a signature in the text file.
> Only the guy's name.
At least in the US, the relevant law (why I mentioned "affirmative
acts") is what make cli
"Juan M. Mendez" wrote in message
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So, I have been investigating.
It seems Adam Bryant developed a new version 5 of conquer:
http://www.cs.bu.edu/ftp/fs/pub/adb/beta/
where all the files hold notices disallowing redistribution of the
code with a notice
starting with.
"Nathanael Nerode" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Time to see what we would need to change to make it DFSG-free.
On a quick readthrough of the SFDL, it looks like this to me:
* Unlike the GFDL, no Invariant Sections or Cover Texts.
And they can't be added, so it
The folowng is ann analysys of the DFSG freeness of the current draft of the
GNU SFDL.
I was only looking to see if the problems with the current FDL are resolved
by the SFDL.
There may be new problems that I did not notice. I used Manoj's draft
position statement
to identify the problems with t
"James Westby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Hi,
I have what I believe will be a fairly simple question (at least I hope
so).
I am looking at packaging mod_gnutls, a work that is under the Apache
Software License v2.0, and links against GnuTLS, which is under the
"Marco d'Itri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What should be done, in your opinion?
Nothing. The ftpmasters decide what is free or not, not you, not I, not
debian-legal as a whole (?).
Well you can check with the particular ftp masters
"Eric Lavarde - Debian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Hello,
I sent the below email already a while ago, but didn't receive any answer.
Can someone tell me what's wrong? Did I miss some important point of
netiquette, or FAQ to read before asking stupid questions?
"Nathanael Nerode" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Steve Langasek wrote:
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:32:50PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
In this case, I see one rather obvious issue (there may be others):
Steve Langasek has said, in essence
"When A says X, an
Cross posted to ensure OP sees this. Please continue on d-legal.
"Harald Dunkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Hi folks,
I am pretty optimistic to clarify the license conditions for
blockade (http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/blockade.html), making
it possible to m
"Lionel Elie Mamane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 03:16:26PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote:
"Nathanael Nerode" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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There's a lot of complicated wo
"Lionel Elie Mamane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 12:57:11PM +1000, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
On 7/29/06, Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The FSF is really not concerned about online games. That is because
th
"Francesco Poli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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This License permits you to make and run privately modified versions
of the Program, or have others make and run them on your
behalf. However, this permission terminates, as to all such versions,
if you bring suit
"Simon Josefsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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The IETF lawyer has written a proposal for a new outbound license to
third parties for IETF documents (i.e., most RFCs and I-D). We're
given one week to review it in a working group last call. Most likely
there will
"Andrew Donnellan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Even moving all logic to the server side can't stop it. Online games
especially need to be able to distinguish the 'official' client from a
modified one. Even if all logic is on the server side, the client
still rece
"Andrew Donnellan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>versions to play those DVDs. If the work communicates with an online
service, it must be possible for modified versions to communicate with
the same online service in the same way such that the service cannot
dist
"Nathanael Nerode" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Just a heads-up.
http://gplv3.fsf.org/
There's a lot of complicated wording changes from the first draft of the
GPL v.3.
(They all look like improvements to me, but there's a lot to digest.)
And there's a new dra
"Henning Makholm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Scripsit "Robinson Tryon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
My guess is that the lawyers who drafted the GPL knew or believed that
the courts would interpret such a "written offer" like a coupon: you
have to physically (or elect
"Francesco Poli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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And my favourite
# Yo yo, this be da socketNinja.
# Alpha-2.0 release
# Distribute and get a visit from tireIronNinja
which I don't think is free.
It lacks (at least) permission to modify and distributed modifie
"MJ Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I would be interested to hear your opinions on the Geant4 Software
License, version 1.0 [1]. [...]
[1] http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/license/LICENSE.html
I think it is clearly GPL-inc
"MJ Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AIUI, the logos are considered trademarks. The "licence" strongly implies
that Debian does not claim copyright on
the open use logo, but merely trademark rights
"Eddy Petrişor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Hello all,
I was thinking on making a logo for the Debian Games Team but I need
to combine the open use logo with an icon which is distributed under a
different license.
My questions are:
1) Are any of the following l
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:58:59AM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote:
/**
* 'Alleged RC4' Source Code picked up from the news."
* From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John L. Allen)"
* Newsgroups: comp.lang.c"
* Subject: Shrink this C code for f
"Nathanael Nerode" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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George Danchev wrote:
I believe that the reason to have that in Sofia-SIP's
libsofia-sip-ua/su/strtoull.c is that it comes that way from the original
contributors like University of California and Sun Microsy
"Magnus Holmgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On Saturday 17 June 2006 23:02, Joe Smith took the opportunity to write:
"Magnus Holmgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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yte.s
"Magnus Holmgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Section 3.3 says "You must create Your own product or service names or
trademarks for Your Licensed Code and You agree not to use the term
"DomainKeys" in or as part of a name or trademark for Your Licensed
Code.".
libsofia-sip-ua/ipt/rc4.c
The package also contains files written by Pekka Pessi. These files are
distributed with the following copyright notice:
Copyright (c) 1996 Pekka Pessi. All rights reserved.
This source code is provided for unrestricted use. Users may copy or
modify this source code
"John Goerzen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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First of all, corporate winds can change. But really my point is not
that SPI should have rejected this license. My point is that SPI should
have been consulted about the indemnification so that we could get the
advi
"John Goerzen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 09:05:20PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
I think these are all very reasonable statements. Not being an
ftp-master, it's not really my decision to make, but my personal opinion
is that the above is
"George Danchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On Tuesday 06 June 2006 07:58, Tom Marble wrote:
We have made an updated revision to the DLJ FAQ (now version 1.2)
which is publicly available at [5]. The preamble to the FAQ
has been specifically re-written to clari
"Andrew Donnellan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On 6/1/06, Karl O. Pinc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The GPL is not "completely unmodifiable", you just have limitations
on how you may modify it and still use it as a license.
The FSF has given blanket permission
"Francesco Poli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Because on the one hand the copyright holder says that no further
restrictions (beyond the ones found in the GPL terms) can be imposed on
recipients (see GPLv2, section 6).
On the other hand he himself adds one such re
"Thomas Esser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Hi,
the teTeX package contains files which use the following license:
COPYRIGHT
=
This macro package (csplain.ini, il2code.tex, csfonts.tex, hyphen.lan,
plaina4.tex) is free software; you can redis
From: Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Trademark:
The name Bacula is a registered trademark.
I assume there is an implicit trademark licence.
In this case an implicit licence is probably better than an explicit
one, solely because it is virtually impossible to word a trademark licence
to allow
"Bill Allombert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Notes: (1)Insert the first year the software was made available to the
public as well as any subsequent years in which a modified version is
made available. The last two paragraphs must be in capital letters t
"Kern Sibbald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Kern's main concern (correct me if I'm wrong, Kern) is that he doesn't
want someone to be able to publish and sell paper versions of the
manual.
Yes, this is correct, but with the nuance, that I would be very happy
"Francesco Poli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On Sat, 13 May 2006 15:03:19 +0200 Uwe Hermann wrote:
If you choose to separate the music
from the game without using it in other software, the GNU General
Public License is likely not to provide the level of protecti
"Kari Pahula" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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I've an ITP, #366834, on a library called cxxtools (which already
created a bit of controversy on -devel). The reason I'm packaging
cxxtools is because tntnet (ITP #361010) uses it.
Both are licensed under GPLv2 or la
"Fred Maranhão" wrote in message
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Hi,
I'm looking for a functional test tool for web applications to use in
my workplace. I'm interested in software that works both in gnu and
windows.
One of the canditates is canoo webtest
(http://webtest.canoo.com/webtest/manual/WebTest
It would be useful to be able to licence the right to litigate cases of
copyright infringement. Many non-profit organisations request copyright
assignment from contributers. One of the more common reasons is because the
organisation would have trouble defending the work (i.e. litigating against
"Frank Gevaerts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Hi,
When I packaged foobillard 3.0a, I correctly removed the included
non-free larabie ttf fonts, but I accidentally forgot to remove the
associated README.FONTS file, which contains the license for these
fonts. Is th
"Francesco Poli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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The license you quoted is definitely non-free, because of the many
restrictions it contains: it fails DFSG#1 and DFSG#3, I would say.
You should try contacting the copyright holders (AT&T, Christopher W.
Fraser, and
"Francesco Poli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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A simple clarification from the copyright holders that they will not
be enforcing any of the problematic
clauses, along with the promise to upgrade to the newer versions of CC
when possible should qualify them
as f
"Heretik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Hi list,
I ITP Tremulous for Debian
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363581) and have some
license concerns.
I have one source package and three binary packages : tremulous,
tremulous-data and tremulous-ser
"Frank Küster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Guido Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi!
I've been asked by the debian release team to look into this bug and see
what
can be done to have a successful resolution... The situation seems to be
this
one:
1) maxd
"Nathanael Nerode" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Javier wrote:
The last proposed licensed I sent is *not* a "new" license. It
is simply this license:
http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-doc-license.html
...
The Debian Documentation License
Copyright 1997-
"Arc Riley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Has anyone looked at Disney's "Panda3d Public License Version 2.0"?
http://www.panda3d.org/license.php
Clause 4 seems worrysome (requires sending signifigant changes to Disney).
Other parts seem redundant with copyright
"Dominik Margraf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Hi!
I have come across with the Wild Magic library, which has its own license
and has not been debianized to date. Here is the link to the license
agreement:
http://www.geometrictools.com/License/WildMagic3Licen
"MJ Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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I think that's the one. There are several often called MIT. Someone
has moved the copy on X.org to which
http://www.fr.debian.org/legal/licenses/ links - has anyone
a new URL besides the failed open source initiative, please
"MJ Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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[...]
The MIT License (in case there would be multiple versions, I'm =20
referring to this one: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-=20
license.html) is indeed very close to the wishes of the IBPP authors.
=20=
I thin
"Jérôme Marant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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The following files have already been identified as offending:
etc/{CENSORSHIP,copying.paper,INTERVIEW,LINUX-GNU,THE-GNU-PROJECT,WHY-FREE}
Following are are nonfree documents found in cygwin's Emacs disto besides
wha
Wildmagic:
The license *might* be free. It is certainly gpl-incompatable.
(c) The Software may be used, edited, modified, copied, and distributed by
you for commercial products provided that such
products are not intended to wrap The Software solely for the
purposes of selling it as if it were
Dominik Margraf wrote:
http://www.opencascade.org/occ/license/
TEXT:
Public license
In short, Open CASCADE Technology Public License is LGPL-like with certain
differences. You are permitted to use Open CASCADE Technology within
commercial environments and you are obliged to acknowledge its
Dominik Margraf wrote:
and Wild Magic
http://www.geometrictools.com/License/WildMagic3License.pdf
Text:
Softwaree License Agreement for the Wild Magic (Version 3)
Library Version 1.0c, April 29, 2005
This Software License Agreement is a legal agreement between Geometric
Tools, Inc., a
Nor
""Claus Färber"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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There are two assumptions here that are wrong:
. US residents can only be sued in US courts.
. US courts can only decide on US copyright law.
Speaking of which, are there any cases in which a US court has made a
"Frank Küster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Except for the source issue. The concrete example, as you might have
guessed, are the ANTP fonts, which are available as PostScript Type1,
TrueType and OpenType fonts.
I have heard a talk of the author, Janusz Nowac
"Joey Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Academic Free License 2.1 has been discussed here before and is
IIRC non-free, how about version 1.1? License follows:
[Snip]
Grant of License. Licensor hereby grants to any person obtaining a copy of
the
Original Work (
"Francesco Poli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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and that was a clearly DFSG-free choice.
I'm personally very happy with that choice and feel it's a perfectly
adequate license for videos.
True that does seem strange.
As a sidenote, the URL you quoted points to th
"Junichi Uekawa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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The web page (http://www.portaudio.com/license.html) has the following
additional clauses; which should be included in Debian package to
clarify:
Plain English Interpretation of the License
The following is a plain En
It seems the only good way to handle this is to get upsteam to change fonts
or convince the font author to make the font availale under a free licence.
Considering the particluar fonts used, that is quite unlikely.
Font copyrights are a royal pain. :(
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"Adam McKenna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 07:42:23PM -0500, Joe Smith wrote:
I'm not one for entering flamewars, but I must ask what is freedom if not
convience?
dict is both free AND convenient!
n
"Craig Sanders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:01:24AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> why are you obsessing with a convenience issue and pretending that
> it has ANY BEARING AT ALL on freedom issues? it doesn't.
Err, because I
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d) They may require that the work contain functioning facilities that
allow users to immediately obtain copies of its Complete Corresponding
Source Code.
***
Although this may be a Free requirement -- and I believe it should be
cons
"Josselin Mouette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Shouldn't packages that require something outside the archive, be it
free or not, be in contrib?
No. An emulator does not require a game. It is just not particularly useful
without one.
Are you saying that a u
"Oleksandr Moskalenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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The License is CeCILL. Two important clauses:
Agreement: means this Licensing Agreement, and any or all of its
subsequent versions.
Any or all Software distributed under a given version of the Agreement may
"Simon Josefsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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"Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I think you are thinking of "i.e." here. "e.g." means more or less
"for example".
Doh! Misread that. You are ri
"Svante Signell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 14:05 -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
Justin Pryzby wrote:
> Some argue
> that *.h, at least for libraries, have no creative content, or are
> only API, and thus not copyrightable, but it can't h
"Simon Josefsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Hi all. I have discussed an issue with IETF's copying conditions on
debian-devel before, and got several supporters. My effort to change
the copying conditions in IETF has resulted in an updated version of
my propos
"Marcus Better" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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3. When downloading the driver from
http://www.intel.com/design/modems/support/drivers.htm
(which by the way is not the only way to do it), one needs to accept a
click-through licence agreement, which is different fr
"Niko Tyni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Fine. So, as I understand, the only possible problem is documentation,
since the license doesn't explicitly give permission to modify it or
distribute modified versions. It's only speaking of 'the code'.
All the documentat
"MJ Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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a shorter licence with the same effect as
the Artistic - you may edit it, but must change the name. I'd say it
follows the DFSG (integrity of source allows name changes), but I have
one doubt: if
"Niko Tyni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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[1] http://www.eblong.com/zarf/glk/
Ah. Zarf. Quite a fascinating fellow. :)
The source code in this package is copyright 1998-9 by Andrew Plotkin. You
may copy and distribute it freely, by any means and under any condi
"MJ Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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"Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No. Debian really would prefer that the logo and name never be used in a
case needing a trademark licence. [...]
Why do you think that? Consider th
Or you can get explicit permission from Debian. :-)
Debian would probably require that you include a bit explaining what
Debian
really is and how to get it, in exchange for using the trademark.
No. Debian really would prefer that the logo and name never be used in a
case needing a trademark
"Måns Rullgård" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Martin Koegler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
The newer MySQL client libraries are GPL (with the FLOSS exception),
older versions were LGPL.
At http://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/licensing-notice.html
MySQL has put a
"Florent Bayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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From: Ullrich Koethe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Would the suggested changes satisfy the Debian folks? Another option would
be to place VIGRA under either the artistic license (in its current
version) and the GPL, at the disc
"Lionel Elie Mamane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 09:12:37AM +, MJ Ray wrote:
Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There are some murmurings on the Web (e.g.,
http://www.spatula.net/software/sex/ ,
http://packages.gentoo.org/eb
"Jacobo Tarrio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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From 4.g.: "For the avoidance of doubt, to the extent your executable
version of a Licensed Product does not contain your or another
Contributor?s
material Modifications or is otherwise not a material Derivative Wor
Developer or such Contributor as a result of
>> warranty, support, indemnity or liability terms You
>> offer.
Against which M. J. Ray makes a fairly convincing argument in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED], which i have
included below for reference:
"J
Wait: "Freely Available" *is* defined at the beginning of the license:
| "Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item. It
| also means that recipients of the item may redistribute it under
| the same conditions they received it.
Whoops. I missed that.
It seems that, if I wa
e.
Take Linus, for example, had he published Linux under a pseudonym then that
psuedonym
may likely be better for identifying him then his real name.
It is very hard to draw the line. How does a legal name identify somebody
better than a psdeuonym?
For example I'm writting this under the
"João Pinheiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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My guess is the book covers are fair use, as they are required to allow
consumers to identify the book.
Besides, few people in their right mind would try to sue Amazon over a
scanned verseion of the cover. After al
However, this one forces modified works to be in the Public Domain, which
is nowhere near the terms of the original work.
Since this is derived from Artisic, it is assumed freely available means the
same as it does there, which includes public domain, or posting the source
publicly. The key is
"Florent Bayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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To make this easy, perhaps upstream can move to the clarified artistic
licence. This seems to be about equivelent to the intent of the current
licence, and is gpl-compatible according to the FSF. If it is
Gpl-compat
"Humberto Massa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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@ 26/09/2005 13:30 : wrote Florent Bayle :
Le Lundi 26 Septembre 2005 17:21, Humberto Massa a écrit :
[...]
And it's not GPL-compatible at all.
How so? The only thing that seems to be a problem to me is this line:
stament makes it quite clear that that is allowed.
s/stament/statement/
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, created by the gimp.
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My questions are:
* does this suffice as a DFSG-free license? it seems that there's no
explicit permission to distribute (even if I suppose Larry meant to give
such a permission...)
The word use in relation to images implies distribution IMHO. For example if
I 'use' Tux in a pamplet, i am most
"Henning Makholm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Scripsit Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
All identifiers have scope; if the license doesn't specify, there's no
reason to think you can't use an identifier whose scope is limited to
your
involvement in the pro
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From: "MJ Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
It is hard to
convict somebody for violating a law that they honestly have no reason to
belive they might have violated. [...]
Never heard the expression "ignorance is not a defence"? One
would still be found guilty, but penaltie
"Michael Poole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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This analogy between software and hard copies is deeply flawed. Under
17 USC 117(a), modificaton of a program is only permitted as an
essential step in the utilization of the program. Under 17 USC
117(b), you need a
This analogy between software and hard copies is deeply flawed. Under
17 USC 117(a), modificaton of a program is only permitted as an
essential step in the utilization of the program.
Certainly if a program fails to do what you desire, changing it is esential
for use of the program to do as
"MJ Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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"Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...] It has long been
held that private copying is not covered by copyright. (Think: making a
cassette tape from a cd).
Maybe you've just worde
You are confusing limited fair use rights (which only exist in some
jurisdictions) with substantial rights to copy and modify a work.
WelltThat may be true, but in the US one cannot commit copyright infringment
by simply modifying a tangible copy of a work, only by copying it. (After
all, if
"Steve Langasek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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So this license prohibits private modifications.
Based on what I see, this was intended to be expat or BSD-like, except
requiring that the source be available on distribution. This is somewhat
more like the MPL. It
"Matthew Garrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The file util/ansi2knr.c is also GPL. I'm pretty sure it's unused, but
an easy reference in debian/copyright would cover it.
This may be a problem if it is used, as:
Tha
The UCB advertising clause has been rescinded by the copyright owner.
See this authorization.
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The advertising clause is no longer required and is deleted. With all
of the usual cautions about IANAL I believe it is enough to delete
Using the words 'This source code' rather than 'the source code' implies the
statement aplies to both the source and the data, which are often though of
together by programmers. I'm pretty sure that the GPL was intended to cover
the whole thing. Therefore if you are unable to ask for clarifica
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