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The package is in the non-free section of Debian.
To understand what that means, please read
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Soumyadip Modak said on Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:08:41AM +0530,:
As far as I remember, I received a mail from the original
developers of RacOtf who claim it is GPL-ed. I'll hunt up the mail
and forward it. I plan to include it in the next big upgrade of
ttf-indic-fonts (I'm
a modified version (as
long as one doesn't pretend the modified version is the original), or
even distributing it with some product...
Yes, copyright does apply, but the scope for `different way of
expression' is very narrow, that any attempt to enforce your `right'
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Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Glenn Maynard wrote:
(I'm not sure, however, if resides is a legally meaningful term, when
the defendant isn't an individual.)
Good question.
In the US, if I remember correctly, clauses refering to the
residence of corporations generally are treated
a licence for any use of the snow code and
algorithms deployed before this date.
Also in what section would this software go: main, non-free?
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pretty soon. So he might want to slowdown a bit.
Hmm.. another SCO in the making.
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Alexander Terekhov said on Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 06:27:27PM +0100,:
And I'm still not in prison. How come?
1. You have some kind of understanding with the copyright holder of
the program in question.
2. You have not been prosecuted != you have not broken the law.
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in the GPL HOTWO - www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html
Would be a nice thing if the software is made available on your
company's servers / website.
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I am filing a bug...
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I am filing a bug...
No. 322147 with a patch
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Resistance of the network is directly proportional to
the field strength of the intellectual property
system.
- Moglen's Corollary to Ohlm's Law
to umm... P((n, etc.
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is incompatible with the GNU GPL.
We recommend that you not use this license for anything except PHP
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free - (adj) able to act at will; not hampered;
not under compulsion or restraint; free
from obligations
. It need not be even a derivative.
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when it is useful is if this list is asked for comments on a draft,
usually with some particular software for debian in mind.
Certainly yes.
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, will some situation arise where application X, also solely
under QPL can be in main?
OTOH, how can we say that libcwd cannot be in main without deciding
whether its license is DFSG compliant or not?
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!!! An articulation, finally.
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with Norway, but are Amsterdam and Oslo same?
Hope we are discussing the same document.
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Distributing free copies of non-free software is like advertising drugs.
on fsug-kochi.
The message is at
http://puggy.symonds.net/pipermail/fsug-kochi-discuss/2004-June/001030.html
I missed a `not' after the first `we' there. (shrugs at the typo devils)
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സ്വാതന്ത്റ്യം എന്റെ ജന്മാവകാശമാണ്.
Freedom is my birth
the non DFSG freeness arises from
patents which are not enforced is a bad precedent.
What if Nokia releases something under the MPL?
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Nathanael Nerode said on Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 01:20:11PM -0400,:
unfortunately it's not clear yet whether that's GPL-compatible;
eventually some version of the Apache license should be though.
Apache says ASL 2.0 is GPL compatible, FSF says it is not.
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copyright law, a license can be a
unilateral grant. WHich is what GPL does.
Heck, you can mail RMS your signed agreement
Yes. Your ISP/department of posts / courier will be richer. No other
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(and there are others too).
And decided that we can continue with Mozilla coz. it is dual
licensed under GPL/LGPL.
Oh, wouldn't life be easy if everyone would just use the GPL or BSD license
and all these variations would just disappear.
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of?
Cannot be included, not even in non-free, IMHO. Will violate DFSG #8.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
: May 10 2004
(/end license page)
The `I Agree in `If you agree to the terms of this license, click I
Agree to indicate' is a link to
http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/firmware.php?agree=1f=ipw2100-fw-1.1.zip
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Andreas Barth said on Wed, May 12, 2004 at 11:15:06AM +0200,:
For me, I want the LGPL for a very simple reason on this web page:
It's quite often used (even so often that it is stored in
/usr/share/common-licenses), and I think that on our web page we
should not only have
. GFDL does not prevent what you think it prevents.
2. In preventing people from doing certain things, GFDL works in the
same way almost all copyleft licenses (like the GPL) do.
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that there was a meeting of this committee
last month. And there was some progress on this issue.
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applied to protect a computer
program
endquote
That is the US of A's DMCA through backdoor.
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in main is a bug.
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Mahesh T. Pai said on Sat, May 01, 2004 at 10:01:44AM +0530,:
debian-legal: Have there been any new conclusions about the
Official Use logo that I'm forgetting, or should a bug be filed
against desktop-base?
IIRC, discussion on this list have concluded
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platforms)
insisting on the display of licenses (even in case of the GPL) and
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not sure though. Groklaw is discussing forgent.
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-200310/msg00317.html
or here:-
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200310/msg00311.html
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examples might be available).
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to all members of the /public/ in /general/.
HTH, and correct me if I am wrong.
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that the law in countries Henning was referring to is
different.
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has not arisen on the license-discuss list so far (AFAIK), But I
doubt if the `OSI approved' stamp will be revoked once granted. Not so
with the `main' status in the Debian ftp archives.
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on SCO revealed the above link. (see the comments
about para 111, the part about IBM not releasing code without an IP
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. The important words are '...actually _subtracts_ from
the author's usual and ... unilaterally permitted ...
After that, do proceed to read the concluding sentence of para 36.
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Brian M. Carlson said on Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 10:39:29AM +,:
I'm not sure that this is even legal, at least in the US.
Will you please clarify why??
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. And as SCO v. IBM shows, you are not the only one to do that.
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be rewritten as:-
This software may be copied, and distributed, with or without
modifications; but this notice must be included on any copy.
To make it DFSG free.
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(or whatever - nonfree is harsh and unwarranted term).
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not recall any
discussion there on the lines of 'forced redistribution is not free'.
The archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
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