Re: licensing issue at APT

2008-11-09 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El domingo, 9 de noviembre de 2008 a las 01:35:35 -0200, Andre Felipe Machado escribía: Please, I need legal advice about the bug report [0] in APT. Just a note that legal advice means advice given by someone acting as a lawyer. As such, very few people in this list is qualified to give

Re: links to external software

2008-09-20 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El sábado, 20 de septiembre de 2008 a las 22:38:27 +0200, Ramses Rodriguez Martinez escribía: error if they are not installed). My question is: ¿is this behavior DFSG-compliant or Debian packages are supposed to be 100% self-contained? If it weren't, we wouldn't be able to have in main any

Re: source code written by monkey

2008-08-11 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El lunes, 11 de agosto de 2008 a las 14:44:14 +0200, Arnoud Engelfriet escribía: While these claims seem somewhat far-fetched, the end result is still that the author has asserted the work is public domain. Why not accept that? Because that is not possible in Germany, where (I believe) the

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the?backports.org repository

2008-06-23 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El domingo, 22 de junio de 2008 a las 12:54:09 -0600, Wesley J. Landaker escribía: Actually, how are debian-keyring and debian-archive-keyring free-software, anyway? Do I get source code for the all GPG keys they contain? The /usr/share/doc/debian-keyring/copyright even says The keys in the

Re: Could you please forward this proposed license to Teosto? (was: Re: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs)

2007-04-27 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El jueves, 26 de abril de 2007 a las 16:25:40 -0400, Jason Spiro escribía: I have dropped Tommi, Sami and Joonas from the Cc because I don't think they want to be bothered too much with this kind of things, and only care about the results. Feel free to correct me if that isn't the case. *

Re: question about gpl-commercial dual licencing

2007-04-21 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El sábado, 21 de abril de 2007 a las 15:10:31 +0530, Shriramana Sharma escribía: Say someone creates a library libfoo in the C language. The library is dual-licenced -- under the GPL and under a commercial licence. GPL is Now I create Python binding to that library - pyfoo. Now I would like

Re: firefox - iceweasel package is probably not legal

2006-12-06 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El miércoles, 6 de diciembre de 2006 a las 16:26:27 +0100, Arnoud Engelfriet escribía: What I don't understand is why a package for the Iceweasel software would carry the name firefox. There's no such thing as a firefox. There It is not a package for Iceweasel that is called firefox. It is

Re: firefox - iceweasel package is probably not legal

2006-12-05 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El martes, 5 de diciembre de 2006 a las 13:57:48 -0800, Jeff Carr escribía: I notice that recently you have complied with Mozilla's request to not use their trademarks for your browser packages. However, you can't also use their trademark to switch users to a competing product.

Re: DFSG-freeness of the CID Font Code Public Licence

2006-06-05 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El lunes, 5 de junio de 2006 a las 19:39:46 +1000, Andrew Donnellan escribía: But it doesn't say that - it says applicable laws, if that includes US export laws then there's nothing you can do about it because it would apply to you in any case. It says applicable laws, including US export

Re: DFSG-freeness of the CID Font Code Public Licence

2006-06-05 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El lunes, 5 de junio de 2006 a las 13:14:49 +0100, Stephen Gran escribía: that don't follow the Sharia, you would be forced to? Do you think a license can ever force you to follow laws that have no jurisdiction? After seeing licenses that claim not to be affected by any laws that would make

Re: DFSG-freeness of the CID Font Code Public Licence

2006-06-05 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El lunes, 5 de junio de 2006 a las 15:39:01 +0200, Jacobo Tarrio escribía: Yes, exactly. This means that the sentence boils down to roughly, 'you have to not break the law for your jurisdiction'. Well, that's hardly non-free. Another[0] piece of hideous pseudopoetry: Sorry. What I

Re: A GPL-compatible license for photos and music. Which?

2006-04-24 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El domingo, 23 de abril de 2006 a las 22:25:35 +0400, olive escribía: I don't understand this. For photographs, modifications doen't really make sense (apart from some adjustement). If you want to modify a In worth1000.com you can find several examples of modified photos... -- Jacobo

Re: MPL and Source Code

2006-04-03 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El lunes, 3 de abril de 2006 a las 13:02:58 +1000, Craig Southeren escribía: If Debian is not ensuring that all source code for it's distribution is publically available via it's archives, then I agree that this is not only a problem for Debian, but it is definitaly a problem for downstream

Re: RFC: the new license for IBPP

2006-03-30 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El jueves, 30 de marzo de 2006 a las 16:33:59 +0300, Damyan Ivanov escribía: Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization (???You???) obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files covered by this license (the ???Software???) to use the

Re: MPL license

2006-03-26 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Domingo, 26 de Marzo de 2006 ás 20:57:35 +0200, Mike Hommey escribía: The GPL does require something similar. Not exactly. The GPL requires you to provide source alongside binary; when you stop offering the binary, you may stop offering the source. However, under the MPL, you must go on

Re: [Flamerobin-devel] License, again

2006-03-24 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El jueves, 23 de marzo de 2006 a las 22:59:46 +0100, Milan Babuskov escribía: The GPL itself covers these points. In principle, debian-legal discourages license proliferation. GPL does cover it, but GPL requires that modifications are made public. No, it does not. It only requires that, if

Re: [Flamerobin-devel] License, again

2006-03-24 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El viernes, 24 de marzo de 2006 a las 10:18:14 +0100, Jacobo Tarrio escribía: Licenses that require that modifications are published are routinely rejected by Debian. More properly, Works distributed under licenses that... -- Jacobo Tarrío | http://jacobo.tarrio.org

Re: [Flamerobin-devel] License, again

2006-03-23 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El jueves, 23 de marzo de 2006 a las 15:55:55 +0200, Damyan Ivanov escribía: 1. allow anyone to download, copy and redistribute FR source as it is. 2. if someone makes modifications for his own use, he is not obligated to publish them 3. if someone makes modifications and makes executable

Re: no longer a bug.

2006-03-13 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El domingo, 12 de marzo de 2006 a las 13:39:45 -0500, Mike O'Connor escribía: The only things the documentation license holds as invariant are the GPL and the GFDL themselves, and Debian already accepts those as being invariant, this documentation should no longer be considered non-free in

Re: [Portaudio] Re: portaudio in Debian, license updates?

2006-03-06 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El domingo, 5 de marzo de 2006 a las 14:44:33 -0500, Joe Smith escribía: If a court is in doubt as to how the licence is to be interpreted it should look at such text. Such text, especially if included near the licence, has If the author intends it to be a request, not a requirement, nobody

Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-17 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El lunes, 16 de enero de 2006 a las 09:07:42 -0800, Don Armstrong escribía: The Complete Corresponding Source Code for a work in object code form means all the source code needed to understand, adapt, modify, compile, Good, now even if someone codes a piece of firmware directly in machine

Re: Is libreludedb DFSG compliant?

2005-12-29 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El jueves, 29 de diciembre de 2005 a las 15:54:51 +0100, Mickael Profeta escribía: If you link LibPreludeDB against other code all of which is itself licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 dated June 1991 (GPL v2), then you may use Libprelude under the terms of the GPL v2,

Re: rar support violates DFSG #4

2005-11-26 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El sábado, 26 de noviembre de 2005 a las 11:11:32 +0100, Robert Millan escribía: That suggests if the maintainer disagrees in, say, DFSG #1 (Debian will remain 100% free), then we don't have to treat as release-critical an inclussion of DFSG #4 states: We will be guided by the needs of

Re: New BitTorrent License Preview

2005-10-06 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El miércoles, 5 de octubre de 2005 a las 19:12:00 -0400, Joe Smith escribía: Does this mean that I cannot sell it unless I or anyone else in the world has modified it? Isn't that stipulation a bit stupid? I read this as saying you may not sell etc. the original work unless it contains some

Re: New BitTorrent License Preview

2005-10-04 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El martes, 4 de octubre de 2005 a las 11:26:03 -0500, Michael Janssen escribía: Just a couple of comments: In clause 3: As an express condition for your use of the Licensed Product, you hereby agree that you will not, without the prior written consent of Licensor, use any trademarks,

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

2005-09-26 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El lunes, 26 de septiembre de 2005 a las 19:34:00 +0200, Claus Färber escribía: a. place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them Freely Available, for example by allowing the Copyright Holder to include your modifications in the Standard Version of

Re: Linux Documentation Project License (LDPL) v2.0

2005-09-25 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El domingo, 25 de septiembre de 2005 a las 10:58:49 -0400, Joe Smith escribía: Is it just me or is it hard to sue a pseudonymous modifier, becaue their real identiy is not known? Yes, but the pseudonymous modifier would have lost the license to distribute the work, and anyone distributing

Re: Linuxsampler license

2005-09-15 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El jueves, 15 de septiembre de 2005 a las 10:50:12 +0200, Sven Luther escribía: LinuxSampler is licensed under the GNU GPL license with the exception that COMMERCIAL USE of the souce code, libraries and applications is NOT ALLOWED without prior written permission by the LinuxSampler

Re: Linuxsampler license

2005-09-15 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El jueves, 15 de septiembre de 2005 a las 13:07:18 +0300, George Danchev escribía: That is indeed non-free and fails DFSG #6, the package cannot be in main, but could be in non-free maybe. Probably not, according to some interpretations (the GPL does not allow Right, as explained in

Re: Alternatives to the Affero General Public License

2005-06-22 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Martes, 21 de Xuño de 2005 ás 20:07:36 -0700, Gregor Richards escribía: In response section 6: (So that I can reference, the full section:) 6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original

Re: [WASTE-dev-public] Do not package WASTE! UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE [Was: Re: Questions about waste licence and code.]

2005-05-19 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Mércores, 18 de Maio de 2005 ás 21:46:48 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez escribía: That is completely not possible. Once you offer (and someone accepts) code under the terms of the GPL, they are for evermore entitled to use *that* code under the GPL. About the only thing that can be done is

Re: [WASTE-dev-public] Do not package WASTE! UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE [Was: Re: Questions about waste licence and code.]

2005-05-19 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Xoves, 19 de Maio de 2005 ás 19:52:28 +0200, Arnoud Engelfriet escribía: That's an aspect of EU copyright law I'm not aware of. Can you tell me which Berne provision or EU directive this is? Please, next time just say directly that's not so and it'll be easier on my health. Thanks. And

Re: Asking for advice regarding the Sleepy Cat's dbxml license

2005-05-05 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Xoves, 5 de Maio de 2005 ás 10:36:09 +0200, Tomas Fasth escribía: * 3. Redistributions in any form must be accompanied by information on *how to obtain complete source code for the DB software and any *accompanying software that uses the DB software. The source code *must

Re: (DRAFT 3) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-20 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Mércores, 20 de Abril de 2005 ás 08:40:21 +0200, Jacobo Tarrio escribía: Yes, in places it is too verbose, being that I'm not used to writing in English :-) (I think that I've been reading too many American laws, lately. The provision hereunder, therefore, applies to all persons not under

(DRAFT 4) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-20 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
After suggestions by Glenn Maynard, I rewrote most of the document to make it simpler and remove redundancies that were repeated over and over ;- I repeat my point: repeated exposure to American legal texts is bad for non-native speakers ;-))) The first two questions were merged into a

Re: (DRAFT 4) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-20 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Mércores, 20 de Abril de 2005 ás 11:20:36 -0300, Humberto Massa escribía: s/software/programs and\/or libraries/g Darn, I had managed to avoid it in the previous version :-) -- Jacobo Tarrío | http://jacobo.tarrio.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: (DRAFT 4) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-20 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Mércores, 20 de Abril de 2005 ás 14:53:18 +, MJ Ray escribía: Q: Shouldn't we allow documents which describe standards or personal opinions to be non-modifiable? Why should we need the same freedoms as for programs? That's a good one (although I don't like the last question very much,

Re: (DRAFT 3) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-16 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Sábado, 16 de Abril de 2005 ás 18:49:15 +0200, Francesco Poli escribía: Here I don't know if it's me that sees it wrong or that symbol is really a question mark... I would do s/components \? the/components: the/ That's a dash (mdash;), that does not appear well because I cut-and-pasted

Re: (DRAFT) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-15 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Venres, 15 de Abril de 2005 ás 00:29:52 +0200, Francesco Poli escribía: Copyright ones are not the only issues that matter when we check whether a work is DFSG-free. Oh, you're right. -- Jacobo Tarrío | http://jacobo.tarrio.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (DRAFT) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-15 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Venres, 15 de Abril de 2005 ás 17:06:00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribía: How about this, more to the point? If the author or standards organization is unconvinced by this argument, and does not want to Ah, now I understand what you meant :-) I have added something to that effect. I'm

Re: (DRAFT) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-14 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Xoves, 14 de Abril de 2005 ás 01:22:56 +0200, Francesco Poli escribía: A: The DFSG is a set of minimum criteria that are taken into account when deciding if a particular copyright license is free or not. I would prefer if a particular /work/ is free or not. Actually, it would be a

Re: (DRAFT) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-14 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Xoves, 14 de Abril de 2005 ás 09:37:12 +0100, Andrew Suffield escribía: It could also be fraud, or (strangely enough) in some jurisdictions, copyright. Although not the part of copyright law that is related to licensing; the right to not have things misattributed to you cannot be waived,

Re: (DRAFT) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-14 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Xoves, 14 de Abril de 2005 ás 07:39:30 -0400, Evan Prodromou escribía: Probably another point worth making is that being in Debian or being DFSG-free is not equivalent to being good or being righteous. [...] Yes, that's worthy of an entry in the DFSG FAQ, only not in the documentation

Re: (DRAFT) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-14 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Xoves, 14 de Abril de 2005 ás 08:55:07 -0400, Anthony DeRobertis escribía: Append at the end: - Discuss it on -project(?). Once you've worked out any problems with - Propose a General Resolution to amend the Social Contract and convince Oh, yes. I thought it looked too easy ;-) --

(DRAFT 2) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-14 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
24 hours have passed, and this is the text of the current revision. Additions, removals, rewordings, criticism, suggestions are welcomed and requested. The latest revision is always available (minus network hiccups) at http://jacobo.tarrio.org/Documentation_licensing_FAQ When the text is

Re: (DRAFT 2) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-14 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Xoves, 14 de Abril de 2005 ás 11:46:36 -0400, Raul Miller escribía: Another example is incorporating documentation into a program, to be displayed at run time. Included. -- Jacobo Tarrío | http://jacobo.tarrio.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: (DRAFT 2) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-14 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
I have added this to the FAQ: Q: If the DFSG are to be applied to documents as well as to programs, why is the text of the GPL included in Debian, if it says that it cannot be modified at all? A: It is included because this text contains the terms under which many components of a Debian system

Re: (DRAFT) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-13 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Mércores, 13 de Abril de 2005 ás 16:56:04 +0100, Andrew Suffield escribía: Of course, a copy of the GNU Emacs manual printed on dead trees is unequivocally documentation, ^ You mean 'not software'. It's always documentation; in softcopy form it happens to

Re: (DRAFT) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-13 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Mércores, 13 de Abril de 2005 ás 17:56:11 +0100, Andrew Suffield escribía: I've written this four times in the past week, so it belongs in a FAQ. Something along these lines should be included: Done. Now you can start just pasting URLs [1] :-) == [1]

Re: Bug#296369: ITP: spin -- Powerfull model checking and software verification tool

2005-02-22 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Martes, 22 de Febreiro de 2005 ás 13:54:18 +0100, Eike Dehling escribía: So unless someone uses it commercially no license applies. Debian itself A license is a permission grant. No license == no permission. isn't commercial, so it doesn't apply here. The first sentence even encourages

Re: ReRegarding iraf

2005-01-11 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Luns, 10 de Xaneiro de 2005 ás 18:53:52 +0100, Jacobo Tarrio escribía: What defines GPL compatibility? Modify and distribute? A license is compatible with the GPL if it does not include any restriction not present in the GPL. In my latest message I didn't really say what I really meant

Re: Drawings similar to well known products. Copyright problems?

2005-01-11 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Luns, 10 de Xaneiro de 2005 ás 18:51:32 -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen escribía: I wouldn't be horribly surprised if the names hummer or rubik are Is HMMV a registered trademark? -- Jacobo Tarrío | http://jacobo.tarrio.org/

Re: ReRegarding iraf

2005-01-10 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Luns, 10 de Xaneiro de 2005 ás 12:42:57 -0500, Justin Pryzby escribía: What defines GPL compatibility? Modify and distribute? A license is compatible with the GPL if it does not include any restriction not present in the GPL. Interpretation: when you join (by linking) a GPLed work with

Re: Trademarks: what is the line?

2004-12-31 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Venres, 31 de Decembro de 2004 ás 12:59:31 -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen escribía: What sort of nonsense is that? What on earth are they trying to accomplish? About what Debian seeks to accomplish with the Official Logo: a seal or mark indicating quality. Yes, but the more widely known

Re: Trademarks: what is the line?

2004-12-31 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Venres, 31 de Decembro de 2004 ás 13:12:38 -0800, Steve Langasek escribía: If we're not doing anything that requires licensing the trademark, a requirement in the trademark license to change the command names is ignorable. Well, using the trademark forces us to seek permission (a license)

Re: AbiWord, trademarks, and DFSG-freeness

2004-10-17 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Venres, 15 de Outubro de 2004 ás 12:40:23 -0400, Raul Miller escribía: Oops, I have just thought of a case where it isn't so, at least in Spain. The Spanish trade mark law allows the owner of a trademark to prohibit its removal from a product. If we are prohibited from removing the name

Re: AbiWord, trademarks, and DFSG-freeness

2004-10-15 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Venres, 15 de Outubro de 2004 ás 02:12:41 -0500, Branden Robinson escribía: First of all, I Am Not A Lawyer, so don't sue me if your trial goes bad. It's all your fault for believing me :-) And now... I think that trademarks are irrelevant to DFSG-freeness since if the copyright license is

Re: AbiWord, trademarks, and DFSG-freeness

2004-10-15 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Venres, 15 de Outubro de 2004 ás 17:50:29 +0200, Jacobo Tarrio escribía: I think that trademarks are irrelevant to DFSG-freeness since if the Oops, I have just thought of a case where it isn't so, at least in Spain. The Spanish trade mark law allows the owner of a trademark to prohibit its

Re: JRockit in non-free, part II

2004-10-06 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Mércores, 6 de Outubro de 2004 ás 04:24:31 -0700, Johan Walles escribía: Also, since I'm really unsure about what the requirements actually are to get into non-free, is the EULA forbidding re-distribution a show-stopper? I guessed that as long as Debian was allowed to redistribute,

Re: Real names in a football game

2004-09-15 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Martes, 14 de Setembro de 2004 ás 22:18:46 +0200, Isaac Clerencia escribía: I think this can be illegal (also team names?). Yes, it falls under trade mark protection laws. Since team names and logos, and players' names are big assets for their teams and national leagues (put Beckam's name in

Re: MontyLingua license

2004-08-24 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Martes, 24 de Agosto de 2004 ás 14:54:22 +0900, Seo Sanghyeon escribía: Since it is certainly licensed under GNU GPL, is it okay to go into Debian main? What could This is covered under GPL, but only for non-commercial use mean at all? I'd guess that it's just the usual association

Re: NEW ocaml licence proposal by upstream, will be part of the 3.08.1 release going into sarge.

2004-08-12 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Xoves, 12 de Agosto de 2004 ás 11:29:50 -0400, Michael Poole escribía: * Licenses like the QPL, which compel me to give somebody more rights to my work than I had to his, are not Free. They are not compatible with DFSG 3. This is where you lose me. How is that incompatible with

Re: compatibility of OpenSSL and GPL'ed plugins

2004-07-16 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Venres, 16 de Xullo de 2004 ás 01:11:52 +0200, Marco d'Itri escribía: Let's consider a program, released under a MIT/X11 license and linked with OpenSSL. Some GPL'ed plugins (which are dlopen'ed at run time) are distributed with the program. Is distribution of this package a GPL violation?

Re: Desert Island Test [Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL]

2004-07-13 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Martes, 13 de Xullo de 2004 ás 00:56:39 -0700, Sean Kellogg escribía: back to B due to lack of communication facilities. The duty in question will be discharged by the court under section 261 provided section 263 is 95% of the world population does not live in the US. -- Tarrío

Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL

2004-07-13 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Martes, 13 de Xullo de 2004 ás 15:19:02 +0100, Matthew Garrett escribía: I'm also unconvinced by these examples. The first sounds like A free software license should allow for small groups to avoid lawsuits while breaking the law, and the GPL can damage a wide range of perfectly legal

Re: Copyright on 'non-creative' data?

2004-07-04 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Domingo, 4 de Xullo de 2004 ás 20:54:48 +0100, Andrew Suffield escribía: They may be covered by database property laws in some jurisdictions. ... which are not Copyright or Intellectual Property laws, so Debian would treat them in the same way it treats, for example, patents or trademarks.

Re: request-tracker3: license shadiness

2004-06-10 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Xoves, 10 de Xuño de 2004 ás 16:51:06 -0400, Michael Poole escribía: Can Debian properly redistribute rt3 if rt3 alleges both distribution under the GPL and GPL-incompatible restrictions? Does the fact that the restrictions are non-enforceable (at least in the US) enter consideration? I

Re: Cronyx Tau-ISA obfuscated driver

2004-05-18 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Martes, 18 de Maio de 2004 ás 09:16:25 +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer escribía: Free/non-free? (Only an academic interest, I did not use this driver yet.) Cronyx Tau-ISA driver Well, if the source code is obfuscated, it is not really useful source code for humans to modify or learn from; so it

Re: The draft Position statement on the GFDL

2004-05-11 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Martes, 11 de Maio de 2004 ás 13:09:12 -0400, Raul Miller escribía: The GPL specifically disallows creation of copies with changes -- no matter how functional -- which include restrictions on the rights of other users of derivatives. The GPL forbids distributing copies under a license

Re: Question about DFSG and a THC project

2004-04-20 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Martes, 20 de Abril de 2004 ás 13:52:19 -0700, Jake Appelbaum escribía: Let this be my first try at a license analysis in d-l :) 1. This software comes with no warrenty or promised features. If it works for you - fine. It just comes AS-IS, which means as a bunch of bits and bytes.

Re: Forward: Re: On the possibility of changing the license of Adobe CMap files

2004-01-29 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Xoves, 29 de Xaneiro de 2004 ás 17:06:06 +0900, Kenshi Muto escribía: Do you have any idea to cope with this situation? Or does anyone come up with possible proposal so that Adobe can be persuaded? I appreciate your help. They claim that integrity of the CMap files is the main issue.

Re: BSD Protection License

2003-10-23 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Xoves, 23 de Outubro de 2003 ás 11:10:13 +0100, Colin Percival escribía: 1. You may do X 2. You may do Y 3. You may do Z means you may take any, all, or none, of the actions X,Y,Z; likewise, clauses 2, 3, and 4 each provide alternatives -- you may take actions permitted under any of

Re: BSD Protection License

2003-10-23 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Xoves, 23 de Outubro de 2003 ás 15:50:38 +, Dylan Thurston escribía: clause 3 vs. clause 4 issue: such a license is a grant of permission, and if I grant you permission to do X if Y, and also grant permission to do X if Z, then if you do either Y or Z, then you can do X. If one Last

Re: There was never a chance of a GFDL compromise

2003-09-25 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Luns, 22 de Setembro de 2003 ás 10:57:37 -0400, Richard Stallman escribía: Not long ago, people were trying to reassure me that if invariant sections were removable, nobody would remove them. I guess not. If they were both removable and modifiable (so not invariant), they would be

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-12 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Venres, 12 de Setembro de 2003 ás 11:44:34 +0200, Mathieu Roy escribía: Hum, you mean in the sense of the Debian Free _SOFTWARE_ Guidelines? Everything Debian distributes is software. After all, if it weren't, we wouldn't be able to store it in a FTP server, transmit it via the Internet or

Re: The GPL and you

2003-09-01 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Domingo, 31 de Agosto de 2003 ás 13:51:13 -0700, Daniel Isacc Walker escribía: [...] under the GPL . What this means is that my software is automatically GPL'd even though it has no GPL'd source in it. The GPL doesn't distinguish [...] incorporated directly into PHP that means that PHP

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Venres, 29 de Agosto de 2003 ás 16:09:57 +0200, Mathieu Roy escribía: The DFSG itself does not meet the DFSG itself, if you think that no text can be invariant. I believe that you can make modified versions of the DFSG, as long as you do not call the resulting document The Debian Free

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Venres, 29 de Agosto de 2003 ás 11:17:14 +0200, Mathieu Roy escribía: And according to the Debian Social Contract #4, Debian priorities are [Debian] users and Free Software. And Debian's users expect that everything they find in main will have a license that meets certain criteria: the

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-25 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Luns, 25 de Agosto de 2003 ás 13:35:21 +0900, Fedor Zuev escribía: Documentation in not a software. There is no any one-way transformation from the source to the binary. All problems with distribution and modification of documents is a legal, not technical problems. That doesn't

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-25 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Domingo, 24 de Agosto de 2003 ás 19:36:20 -0500, Joe Wreschnig escribía: How about the GPL v2? The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it; binary or object code is anything that is not source. I don't see the problem in applying this

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-25 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Luns, 25 de Agosto de 2003 ás 16:23:36 +0300, Richard Braakman escribía: But to make a new edition with some spelling errors fixed, you definitely need the source. Of course. (I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Are you claiming that translations and summaries are all you'll

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-24 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Domingo, 24 de Agosto de 2003 ás 16:54:53 -0500, Branden Robinson escribía: drawn to the condition You may not use technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further copying of the copies you make or distribute. If make or were stricken, and perhaps some clarification added to

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-24 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Domingo, 24 de Agosto de 2003 ás 19:36:20 -0500, Joe Wreschnig escribía: How about the GPL v2? The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it; binary or object code is anything that is not source. I don't see the problem in applying this

Re: SURVEY: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?

2003-08-21 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Xoves, 21 de Agosto de 2003 ás 00:09:54 -0500, Branden Robinson escribía: === CUT HERE === Part 1. DFSG-freeness of the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 Please mark with an X the item that most closely approximates your opinion. Mark only one. [ X ] The GNU Free

Re: A possible approach in solving the FDL problem

2003-08-15 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Venres, 15 de Agosto de 2003 ás 12:49:21 +0200, Wouter Verhelst escribía: we should at the very least avoid confusion by clarifying the intended meaning of the word 'software' in the context of the text of the DFSG. Well, in that context, software means everything you can store in a CD, or

Re: A possible approach in solving the FDL problem

2003-08-14 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Xoves, 14 de Agosto de 2003 ás 09:05:04 +0200, Sergey V. Spiridonov escribía: That was probably the intention, but the wording makes it unclear. Sorry it was quite clear for me. The GFDL, as it is worded now, would forbid me sending you a GPG-encrypted mail containing a GFDL-licensed work,

Re: a minimal copyleft

2003-08-04 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Luns, 4 de Agosto de 2003 ás 00:21:59 +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS escribía: (L) Public Property: You may do anything you want with this work provided that you inform all recipients that all derived works must likewise be Public Property. ... with no additional restrictions. --

Re: Are c code from www.ioccc.org free?

2002-11-22 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Venres, 22 de Novembro de 2002 ás 10:36:20 +0100, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis escribía: I'm a bit confused by the possible interpretation of All other uses must receive prior permission from the contest judges: this sentence neither deny all other possible uses, nor it explicitly allows

European Directive on the legal protection of databases

2002-11-07 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
To whom it may concern: The following URL displays the text of the Directive, available in all 11 official languages of the EU (so you'll have no problem reading it :-)) http://europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoclg=ennumdoc=31996L0009model=guichett (All in

Re: Debian registered by a trade as TM in Spain!

2002-09-03 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Martes, 3 de Setembro de 2002 ás 10:59:45 -0500, Steve Langasek escribía: The trademark is shown as registered in class 42: After some digging, I found the applications: M2321780, M2321781, M2321782. All three were submitted within one minute, by the same person. The first one claims the