Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-17 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 02:00:42PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On 3/14/06, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using a pseudonym to make it harder to identify you is in clear violation of the above-quoted requirement. You've indicated that it's difficult to do so, but the intent

Re: Interpretation of the GR

2006-03-17 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 04:58:06PM -0500, Jeremy Hankins wrote: Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If a GR says something is Free, then it must be saying that either 1: the work is distributable, or 2: distributability is not relevant to freeness. A GR that calls a work Free

Re: Interpreting the GFDL GR

2006-03-16 Thread Glenn Maynard
traffic. They're designed largely for that very purpose. This is prohibited from a straightforward reading of the license. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: All rights reserved?

2006-03-16 Thread Glenn Maynard
with no license is not (generally) public domain anyway; the presence of all right reserved doesn't change that one way or the other. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Interpretation of the GR

2006-03-16 Thread Glenn Maynard
DFSG#1. If the GR is labelling undistributable works free, then it is in no way orthogonal to distributability. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Interpretation of the GR

2006-03-16 Thread Glenn Maynard
we're going to willfully violate the license. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Interpretation of the GR

2006-03-16 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 04:04:37PM -0500, Jeremy Hankins wrote: Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 08:17:25AM -0500, Jeremy Hankins wrote: But the issue of whether or not they're distributable at all is absolutely orthogonal to the GR. They have no bearing

Re: Interpretation of the GR

2006-03-16 Thread Glenn Maynard
is not generous, it's false. If the only rational interpretation that can be found of the GR is that it demands a willfully false reading of the license, so be it. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Interpreting the GFDL GR

2006-03-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
they begin proliferating it.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
reference implementations (which certainly are not specifications; anyone who's implemented a file parser knows that)? (At least this one's in the license itself, and not merely a statement of intent from the FSF that we're supposed to assume everyone shares.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: All rights reserved?

2006-03-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
/debian-legal/2005/10/msg00198.html for previous discussion (from Googling for 'all rights reserved debian-legal'). It's not a problem. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Interpreting the GFDL GR

2006-03-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
license--for years!--without fixing it. The rationale doesn't change that, or lessen the resulting damage. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Interpreting the GFDL GR

2006-03-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
--but that fact doesn't improve the bad options any.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Interpretation of the GR

2006-03-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
an unnatural interpretation to try to give itself permissions it hasn't been granted. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
at large does not comply with them. The GPL does not require that the information be preserved in any way. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
change. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
invariant, prohibiting converting to formats the author doesn't like, and so on. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 07:15:21PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On 3/14/06, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Encrypting a document (whether via GPG or HTTPS) sure seems like a technical measure to obstruct the reading of copies. In the general case, this is not a technical measure

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 09:29:40PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On 3/14/06, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I don't think any special attempt to prevent the technical measures themselves are necessary, since the GPL's source requirements already did that: an encrypted, locked

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 10:37:07PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On 3/14/06, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The GFDL specifically says that it must clearly and legibly identify you. Ambiguity and clarity

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-13 Thread Glenn Maynard
says the GFDL is free, and I'd be using the GFDL with a perfectly natural interpretation. UW did not use a natural reading of its license; it used a deliberately twisted one. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-13 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 01:09:43AM +, MJ Ray wrote: Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian has labelled a license with serious, onerous practical problems free. Labelling licences 'free' means little, as the FSF demonstrated with the ironic name of the FDL. What matters is whether

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-13 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:34:16PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On 3/13/06, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian has labelled a license with serious, onerous practical problems free. Oh? I find myself quite uncertain as to what it is that you're talking about. I see two issues

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
to be there, and now Debian has to consider it free.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: better licence for fosdem, debconf, .., videos...

2006-03-10 Thread Glenn Maynard
a copyright claim, so it seems like a misleading copyright notice. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Testing, one, two ...

2006-03-09 Thread Glenn Maynard
.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-21 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:12:28PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On 2/20/06, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still don't understand how either of these (whether Qmail or TeX) could have been considered so critical that it justified sacrificing code reuse, allowing licenses

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-20 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 10:33:31AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On 2/16/06, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 08:13:01PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: I think that it's safe to say that at the time the DFSG was drafted it was felt if the patch clause wasn't included

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-20 Thread Glenn Maynard
so critical that it justified sacrificing code reuse, allowing licenses to effectively prohibit it. People say trust me, we thought about this, but I have yet to hear the resulting rationale, if there ever really was any. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-16 Thread Glenn Maynard
Debian's. Debian feels that documentation should be held to the same standards of freedom as programs, and the FSF does not. Feel free to lobby to have that page changed, if you feel it necessary, but refrain from trying to use it as a stick to beat Debian with. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-16 Thread Glenn Maynard
prohibition of modifying a work as a relatively minor wart. It seems ironic to waive freedom requirements for the FSF out of respect for its contributions to free software. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:30:16AM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 11:42:03PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: I think convenience is something to be considered in determining whether something is free or not; a hint, nothing more, but not irrelevant either. It's something

Re: PHP License for PHP Group packages

2006-02-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I find it curious that this license--the old Apache one--simultaneously requires an acknowledgement in the documentation, and prohibits mention in advertisement. They want credit, but not too much credit?) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
(that convenience arguments are a weak attempt to ignore non-free restrictions, which can be applied to almost anything)? -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
in response to Don's forbearance.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
] -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
/2006/01/msg00493.html -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
desirable because it's free. Convenience is subjective. Freedom is absolute. Freedom is subjective, too; there are a lot of views on it, even within the bounds of the letter of the DFSG. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Affero General Public License

2006-02-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 12:13:26PM -0500, Benj. Mako Hill wrote: quote who=Glenn Maynard date=Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 05:10:14PM -0500 If you have one GPL-ish license designed for arcades, and another for toll booths, and another for web services, then you can't use code written for toll

Re: PHP License for PHP Group packages

2006-02-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
might guess is that the PHP license's version may not disclaim warranty for some people, but they're free not to do that, right? (But probably didn't intend not to ...) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Affero General Public License

2006-02-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
of the problem: these licenses, targetting a specific use, tend to make it impractical or impossible to use the code for a very different purpose. Having several of them for different purposes doesn't solve that problem. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: FYI: Savannah forces new projects to use GFDL for documentation

2006-02-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
. :) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Affero General Public License

2006-02-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
alternatives alongside the free ones. (You know that, of course.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Affero General Public License

2006-02-10 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:07:08AM +, Gervase Markham wrote: Glenn Maynard wrote: But that's a special case; more generally, I don't see any way at all of satisfying this for the voicemail, toll booth, etc. cases. (Though the thought of someone corking up a toll booth lane on a busy

Re: Adobe open source license -- is this licence free?

2006-02-10 Thread Glenn Maynard
be brought in the courts of the jurisdiction in which the defendant resides. (I'm not sure, however, if resides is a legally meaningful term, when the defendant isn't an individual.) [1] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and followups. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [DSFG] question: Custom hand written notice

2006-02-09 Thread Glenn Maynard
.) IANAL. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Affero General Public License

2006-02-09 Thread Glenn Maynard
be threaded away with someone else's. [1] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [DSFG] question: Custom hand written notice

2006-02-09 Thread Glenn Maynard
it, OSI uses the OSD as a literal set of rules--a definition, which is in stark contrast to Debian's use of the DFSG as a set of guidelines.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Affero General Public License

2006-02-09 Thread Glenn Maynard
give everyone else the same freedoms that you received. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Affero General Public License

2006-02-08 Thread Glenn Maynard
reasonable (eg. free) options would I have to comply with the license? -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Affero General Public License

2006-02-08 Thread Glenn Maynard
code is available on our webpage too). That's for the arcade operator (the owner of the machine). I have no idea how one might satisfy a requirement that the *users* be given GPL-like access to the source. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Affero General Public License

2006-02-08 Thread Glenn Maynard
source is somewhat amusing ...) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE application relicensing

2006-02-07 Thread Glenn Maynard
is not certain about the wording, so I come here to ask your opinion on the subject. I know of no common license by the abbreviation BSDDL (and neither does Google). Please attach the license you're referring to. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: KDE application relicensing

2006-02-07 Thread Glenn Maynard
CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Affero General Public License

2006-02-07 Thread Glenn Maynard
interacts with users in every way imaginable ... -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Affero General Public License

2006-02-07 Thread Glenn Maynard
to add, but if it's on another list I probably won't follow it at all.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Affero General Public License

2006-02-06 Thread Glenn Maynard
widely before we risk writing off some large future subset of GPL works as being non-free. It was just re-discussed recently, around the GPLv3 draft, I believe. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libgsm: right to distribute

2006-02-04 Thread Glenn Maynard
license. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PHP License for PHP Group packages

2006-02-03 Thread Glenn Maynard
be extended across the others and not single out PHP. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gpl and hosted apps

2006-02-03 Thread Glenn Maynard
available? GPLv2 does not. The GPLv3 draft attempts to. In my opinion, it does not do so in a satisfactory way, causing various practical problems. You can find discussions on the list archives, eg. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/01/msg00213.html -- Glenn Maynard

Re: gpl and hosted apps

2006-02-03 Thread Glenn Maynard
and the permissive view, this is the only way we can all get along. :) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PHP License for PHP Group packages

2006-02-03 Thread Glenn Maynard
-free. That's not a very persuasive argument. :) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PHP License for PHP Group packages

2006-02-03 Thread Glenn Maynard
, by the way; it's a stable, solid, production-quality, 98%-complete replacement for CVS.) None of which is terribly important. Unless we're compelled against our will by sheer volume of fundamentally critical works, none of this affects whether the restriction is non-free. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: gpl and hosted apps

2006-02-03 Thread Glenn Maynard
under immediately obtain copies. The response was brief, since it's a whole subject unto itself that had been discussed at extreme length, but should give you an idea of the class of problems it presents. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-02-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
. I hope the free software community at large ultimately disagrees with you. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-02-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
of exasperation now. I'd have held to my last attempt and not replied, but my exasperation quota filled and it had to drain somewhere. Sorry. :) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trademark policy for packages?

2006-02-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
] Subversion's actual renaming clause is in copyright, not trademark. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Squiz.net Open Source License - is it free?

2006-02-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
perfectly legitimate legal proceedings against them. They are not free (in a free license) to use their software as a lever to discourage my doing so. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-02-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
these two examples). -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trademark policy for packages?

2006-02-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
. Of course, the same principle applies; I don't think trademark prevents me from saying this is the ESRB logo indicating 'Teen': img. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OFL license analysis

2006-01-31 Thread Glenn Maynard
? Now it's impossible to make a functional drop-in equivalent without identifying differently. Same problem with any number of things required under the assumption that they're not functional: you could scan strings output for (c) Glenn Maynard if you don't like my code, or refuse to run if the GPL

Re: Trademark policy for packages?

2006-01-31 Thread Glenn Maynard
of these trademarks. People sell Debian CDs all the time, and I don't know if that qualifies. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adobe open source license -- is this licence free?

2006-01-30 Thread Glenn Maynard
an unbearable mess (think 50 countries, with 50 choice of venue clauses, one for each depending on who you want to sue). (The next thought, of course, is replacing French with something like the home-country-or-something of the copyright holder, but that's a whole new ugly bag of worms.) -- Glenn

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-01-30 Thread Glenn Maynard
a strawman that doesn't change where things are today. The FSF deserves respect for their part in getting us here, but not so much that they're exempt from critical review. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OFL license analysis

2006-01-29 Thread Glenn Maynard
technical a level as to mention things like filenames at all.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adobe open source license -- is this licence free?

2006-01-28 Thread Glenn Maynard
are the extreme case. It's a similar problem with, for example, honest but incorrect claims. I don't see why the licensor should get to override the venue in *any* case where he's the one instigating the lawsuit. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: OFL license analysis

2006-01-28 Thread Glenn Maynard
for determining things like confusingly similar. Trying to replicate this in a copyright license really isn't going to work. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adobe open source license -- is this licence free?

2006-01-28 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 09:32:12PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On 1/28/06, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Harrassing lawsuits are the extreme case. It's a similar problem with, for example, honest but incorrect claims. I don't see why the licensor should get to override the venue

Re: Adobe open source license -- is this licence free?

2006-01-28 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 03:18:32PM +1100, Andrew Donnellan wrote: On 1/29/06, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the traditional argument is that restrictions on *use* of the software indicate an EULA, since simple copyright can not, in theory, restrict the use of software

Re: Adobe open source license -- is this licence free?

2006-01-27 Thread Glenn Maynard
choice of law is uncontroversially considered DFSG-free, as long as that choice of law doesn't actually cause the terms of the license to become non-free. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adobe open source license -- is this licence free?

2006-01-27 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 06:56:20PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On 1/27/06, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are non-malicious reasons for releasing software under completely proprietary licenses. Good intentions don't make a restriction more free. Nor do bad intentions make

Re: Adobe open source license -- is this licence free?

2006-01-27 Thread Glenn Maynard
come to either conclusion, though. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adobe open source license -- is this licence free?

2006-01-26 Thread Glenn Maynard
permission to modify the software. The question isn't whether the DFSG covers that (it clearly does), but whether that condition is acceptable. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adobe open source license -- is this licence free?

2006-01-26 Thread Glenn Maynard
and falls under the spirit of DFSG#5/6. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adobe open source license -- is this licence free?

2006-01-26 Thread Glenn Maynard
. In practice, of course, they need to be scrutinized to be sure they don't have unintended negative consequences. It's those negative consequences that can make the license non-free. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Adobe open source license -- is this licence free?

2006-01-26 Thread Glenn Maynard
Software's concern.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adobe open source license -- is this licence free?

2006-01-26 Thread Glenn Maynard
. If you don't agree to the choice of venue, then you don't get the license. Any condition to receiving the license is a restriction on the permissions granted by that license, making choice of venue very much encompassed by the DFSG and within the scope of Free Software's concern. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Adobe open source license -- is this licence free?

2006-01-25 Thread Glenn Maynard
place an undue burden on licensees; even if the interpretation doesn't hold up in court, they have to travel to prove it. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adobe open source license -- is this licence free?

2006-01-25 Thread Glenn Maynard
it from the license, and prevent the confusion (and misleading claims). Personally--speaking for my own particular case--I don't care about flying around the world; flying from Massachusetts to California is quite too far. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Adobe open source license -- is this licence free?

2006-01-25 Thread Glenn Maynard
the copyright holder. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adobe open source license -- is this licence free?

2006-01-25 Thread Glenn Maynard
to take it up in an a completely different venue. I just don't know enough about venue selection to answer this case.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-01-24 Thread Glenn Maynard
said: taking (in my opinion) the worst consession the DFSG has made, and using it as a wedge to try to get even more onerous restrictions allowed. (That means that not only are we suffering for the consession made, we're suffering people using it to try to push even further.) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Glenn Maynard
is really in the best interests of Debian; or whether they're just trying to contrive a way to pound Debian into agreement with the FSF. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-01-23 Thread Glenn Maynard
!, that will destroy Debian as a free system. (And cover texts would not be a small concession at all, but a very big one.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anti-DMCA clause (was Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-20 Thread Glenn Maynard
itself: by pretending that the obsolete mechanism is still effective, the deterrent becomes the threat of prosecution, instead of actual security.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anti-DMCA clause (was Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-20 Thread Glenn Maynard
research into this (which I would hope), it might be interesting to hear their rationale in more detail, even if it's we don't know if this will work, we're just throwing darts at the courts (which is fine with me, as long as the clause seems harmless). -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
their agenda, so effectively probably really means pretends to ...) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anti-DMCA clause (was Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
of their potential effectiveness, need to be done while under the influence of the courts' private version of the language. (Unfortunately, I don't speak that language ...) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
is colored red. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ironies abound (was Re: GPL v3 draft)

2006-01-18 Thread Glenn Maynard
the GPLv3 non-free, since the GFDL showed just how much weight that holds with the FSF. I do want to know what others here think about these things, though, and to let anyone who agrees with these things to lend their voice to fixing them. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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