Re: cdrtools - GPL code with CDDL build system

2006-03-19 Thread Måns Rullgård
Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: #include hallo.h * Måns Rullgård [Sun, Mar 19 2006, 01:50:24AM]: Sam Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These are the bits I'm referring to, from cdrecorc.c (sorry for the long lines, but that's how it's written): ---BEGIN QUOTE

Re: Problematic distribution of P2P clients in France

2006-03-19 Thread Måns Rullgård
. This is a problem for French mirror operators, not for Debian. It is also a problem for any Debian Developer that would come to France. What? Do the French lock you up for things you did outside of France, even if they were legal there? -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: cdrtools - GPL code with CDDL build system

2006-03-19 Thread Måns Rullgård
taken. The obvious solution is to replace the build system with an acceptably licensed one. While at it, one could also make it work properly. Incidentally, this is what the dvdrtools folks have already done. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Problematic distribution of P2P clients in France

2006-03-19 Thread Måns Rullgård
Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 01:39:12PM +, Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 12:35:16PM +0100, Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If courts were

Re: cdrtools - GPL code with CDDL build system

2006-03-19 Thread Måns Rullgård
Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 22:05:53 + Måns Rullgård wrote: Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello debian-legal experts ;-), I need a bit support to clarify the issue with cdrtools' build system. Summary: a while ago, Joerg Schilling

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-19 Thread Måns Rullgård
be counting mirrored disks as multiple copies, and probably as using all the copies at once too. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrtools - GPL code with CDDL build system

2006-03-20 Thread Måns Rullgård
Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 01:21:08 + Måns Rullgård wrote: Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 22:05:53 + Måns Rullgård wrote: Just use dvdrtools instead. ITYM dvd+rw-tools, That's what I use for burning DVDs

Re: MIT licenses

2006-03-20 Thread Måns Rullgård
that are quite distinct. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrtools - GPL code with CDDL build system

2006-03-23 Thread Måns Rullgård
a good reason to find someone willing to take over dvdrtools maintenance and development... We should really seek someone interested. Umm... they released a new version just a couple of weeks ago. What do you require of a project to count it as active? -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: license of schema files

2006-04-04 Thread Måns Rullgård
. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MPEG-4 patent license issues - libfaad* and libx264* and other codecs.

2006-04-30 Thread Måns Rullgård
and have been inolved in patent litigation against individuals using their patents. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it use, not distribution, that requires a patent license? -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: MPEG-4 patent license issues - libfaad* and libx264* and other codecs.

2006-05-01 Thread Måns Rullgård
enough to comment on it. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MPEG-4 patent license issues - libfaad* and libx264* and other codecs.

2006-05-01 Thread Måns Rullgård
) libavcodec0: libfaad (AAC decoder); libx264 (AVC decoder) AFAIK, libx264 is a decoder only but the decoding functions are called x264_encoder_? x264 is an AVC *encoder* only. libavcodec can optionally call it for AVC encoding. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: DFSG as Licence?

2006-06-11 Thread Måns Rullgård
being incompatible is, IMHO, contradictory to the spirit of free software, and spending time on such issues is counter-productive. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG as Licence?

2006-06-11 Thread Måns Rullgård
George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday 11 June 2006 19:25, Måns Rullgård wrote: Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello *, Since I have read tonns of different licences I do not realy know what to do. Since I am using Debian/main only (with the exception

Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-03-11 Thread Måns Rullgård
problem. The preferred form for modification for a film director is often a reshoot of the scene. I guess this means that a GPL video would have to ship with (a copy of) Tom Cruise if he happens to be one of the actors in the film. Sounds difficult to fulfill. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Final text of GPL v3

2007-07-04 Thread Måns Rullgård
under the DFSG. That does *not* mean that anything in the GPL is DFSG free outside the context of a work licensed under the GPL. It may also be worth noting that GPLv2 *has* to be considered DFSG free, or there would be little left to call Debian... -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: LGPL v3 compatibilty

2007-07-16 Thread Måns Rullgård
implementations for pow(), sqrt(), printf(), and the rest of the C standard library from glibc, which is LGPL'd? No. The kernel is completely self-contained. Some code may of course have been borrowed from glibc at some point, but that's irrelevant. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: LGPL v3 compatibilty

2007-07-16 Thread Måns Rullgård
. As for stdarg.h, it is provided by the compiler, and generally (including GCC) licensed without restrictions on use. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: algorithm copyright? what's that?

2007-10-03 Thread Måns Rullgård
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it a kind of algorithm copyright? No. In some countries there is. They call it a patent. IANAL etc Neither am I. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: rescuing code from the GPL

2007-11-11 Thread Måns Rullgård
, that is source and binary compatible with Qt (huge task, but that's beside the point). Every app written to use Qt can now instead use Tq without even a recompile. Are these apps now suddenly derivatives of Tq as well as Qt? I think not. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: TrueCrypt License 2.3

2008-01-12 Thread Måns Rullgård
restriction clauses and some advertising clauses. I don't see anything restricting use or distribution. IANAL -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TrueCrypt License 2.3

2008-01-13 Thread Måns Rullgård
Patrick Matthäi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Måns Rullgård schrieb: Patrick Matthäi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I wanted to package maybe truecrypt for Debian. There was an older discussion on l.d.legal for an older version of the TrueCrypt license, where the most developers said

Re: TrueCrypt License 2.3

2008-01-13 Thread Måns Rullgård
, there is nothing the originators of the algorithm can do to stop it being used. IANAL -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Do web applications disable GPL obligations?

2008-03-11 Thread Måns Rullgård
: IANAL, TINLA. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: k3b monkey audio plugin

2008-03-11 Thread Måns Rullgård
: Monkey's Audio Source Code License Agreement It may be of interest to you that FFmpeg has an independent implementation of this decoder licensed under the LGPL 2.1. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Do web applications disable GPL obligations?

2008-03-12 Thread Måns Rullgård
M. Tyler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Måns Rullgård-3 writes: Mark Tyler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear all, I hope this is the right list to discuss GPL related issues. (Or where would be a better place to get help with the following question?) Your question doesn't relate to Debian, so

Re: Bug#476644: bring back H.261 encoding

2008-04-18 Thread Måns Rullgård
are to be computed from input data. I have no idea whether any patents are applicable to the FFmpeg H.261 encoder, but I wouldn't discount the possibility without a thorough examination. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Copy vs. (re)distribute

2008-05-13 Thread Måns Rullgård
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Re: Licence query

2008-09-14 Thread Måns Rullgård
to distribute modified versions. It is fairly obvious from the remainder of the license that such permission was intended, but it should still be explicitly mentioned. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Licence query

2008-09-14 Thread Måns Rullgård
Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This one time, at band camp, Måns Rullgård said: There is one thing about that license that strikes me as slightly odd. Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter

Re: Licence query

2008-09-14 Thread Måns Rullgård
Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This one time, at band camp, Måns Rullgård said: Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This one time, at band camp, Måns Rullgård said: There is one thing about that license that strikes me as slightly odd. Permission is granted to anyone

Re: GPL photographies, eg for backround

2008-12-29 Thread Måns Rullgård
permission to distribute it any further. More precisely, Debian has the right to distribute such a work, but chooses not to do so. -- Måns Rullgård m...@mansr.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: GPL photographies, eg for backround

2008-12-29 Thread Måns Rullgård
Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Måns Rullgård wrote: More precisely, Debian has the right to distribute such a work, but chooses not to do so. If a work is GPLed and we do not have the complete source for the work, we cannot distribute it under the GPL

Re: GPL photographies, eg for backround

2008-12-29 Thread Måns Rullgård
Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Måns Rullgård wrote: Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Måns Rullgård wrote: More precisely, Debian has the right to distribute such a work, but chooses not to do so. If a work is GPLed and we do

Re: The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.

2010-03-26 Thread Måns Rullgård
hard time enforcing it in court. IANAL -- Måns Rullgård m...@mansr.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/yw1xiq8isx7h@unicorn.mansr.com

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