Re: None FLOSS license for a logo?

2024-08-27 Thread Mihai Moldovan
* On 8/27/24 12:21, c.bu...@posteo.jp wrote: The "original source" of the logo is an SVG file. From that SVG we "generate" some png or ico files used as icons to display in a file manager or the application GUI. Might it be a way that the author of the original source (SVG) logo give the proje

Re: License violations for dependencies of Rust and Go programs?

2023-09-27 Thread Mihai Moldovan
* On 9/27/23 21:10, Sam Hartman wrote: >>>>>> "Mihai" == Mihai Moldovan writes: > > Mihai> In this case, we're "just" talking about missing notices for > Mihai> dependencies that are pulled in, which might not be nice, but >

Re: License violations for dependencies of Rust and Go programs?

2023-09-27 Thread Mihai Moldovan
* On 9/27/23 16:41, John Thorvald Wodder II wrote: > On 2023 Sep 26, at 20:36, Paul Wise wrote: >> Your analysis is correct, some extra context for this problem: >> >> The problem you have identified applies to other statically linked >> languages too, so I have updated the wiki page to link to it

Re: linuxcnc licensing issues

2022-12-01 Thread Mihai Moldovan
Hello Adam Thank you for pointing out such issues and providing context. * On 12/1/22 13:38, Adam Ant wrote: > Large portions of the core code base are labeled as LGPL-2 - There is no such > licence. It is either GPL-2 or LGPL-2.1 Technically, there is a LGPL 2.0 license, although deprecated, s

Re: Is the APSL 2.0 DFSG-compliant?

2022-08-05 Thread Mihai Moldovan
* On 8/5/22 01:09, Ben Westover wrote: > Those are based on conversations that are almost a decade old, and some > things have changed since then. I just wanted a re-review of the license > in 2022 to see if the complaints from before still hold up today. I can see how the outcome of, e.g., lega

Re: Is the APSL 2.0 DFSG-compliant?

2022-08-03 Thread Mihai Moldovan
* On 8/4/22 05:00, Ben Westover wrote: > I was wondering if the Apple Public Source License (version 2.0) > complies with the DFSG. The Free Software Foundation considers it to be > a free software license (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/apsl.en.html), > but I just wanted to make sure it's compatib

Re: Question about Debian redistribution

2022-01-05 Thread Mihai Moldovan
* On 1/5/22 9:32 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > [...] > Navtej Bhatti wrote on https://milkydeveloper.github.io/cb-linux/: > >> Depthcharge does not have the ability of using an initramfs > > This is an unsupported configuration for booting Debian, and I bet for > every other Linux distro, since they rel

Re: Legal status of Audacity in releases newer than Bullseye

2021-07-13 Thread Mihai Moldovan
* On 7/12/21 10:58 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: > None of the issues you are bringing up are license issues, nor do they > affect what changes Debian (or our users) can make to the software. > > The Debian maintainers of the packages in question can decide which of > the upstream changes they wish to re

Re: Maxmind GeoIP/Geolite license change

2020-06-15 Thread Mihai Moldovan
* On 6/15/20 10:51 PM, Michael Tremer wrote: > As you will have noticed, I am not an expert on licenses and have picked CC > BY-SA 4.0 because I believe Maxmind’s database was licensed under this before. I'm assuming that your DB will not contain any content from Maxmind's DB? Hence, you just str

Re: Is this BSD-3-Clause Variant DFSG-compliant?

2020-05-24 Thread Mihai Moldovan
* On 5/24/20 6:33 PM, Eriberto Mota wrote: > Today I found the file test/ftp.y, in btyacc package, using the > following license: > > test/ftp.y: * Copyright (c) 1985, 1988 Regents of the University of > California. > test/ftp.y- * All rights reserved. > test/ftp.y- * > test/ftp.y- * Redistributi

Re: Classification of the APSL as non-DFSG-compliant

2020-04-20 Thread Mihai Moldovan
* On 4/20/20 12:32 PM, Tobias Frost wrote: >>> Distributing to friends may cross the line of personal use. And !"personal >>> use" != "commercial use". >>> (I define "personal use" as individual use; not use of a group.) >>> >>> Also, there may be an Dissident Inc; also that needs the Dissident Te

Re: Classification of the APSL as non-DFSG-compliant

2020-04-20 Thread Mihai Moldovan
* On 4/20/20 10:48 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> For sure it fails the Dissident Test. > Does it? The part which requires the availability of the source changes > explicitly > talks about deployment of the software, i.e. distribution, not personal use > which > would be the criteria for

Re: Classification of the APSL as non-DFSG-compliant

2020-04-20 Thread Mihai Moldovan
* On 4/20/20 9:03 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Secondly, for the APSL-1.2, it seems that the only clause that makes the > license non-DFSG-compliant is this one: > > > (c) You must make Source Code of all Your Deployed Modifications publicly > > available under the terms of this

Re: Transity: GPL-licensed but Free only for Non-Commercials

2019-12-20 Thread Mihai Moldovan
* On 12/20/19 9:59 AM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > Recently I stumble upon Transity [https://github.com/feramhq/transity], > a plain-text accounting system a la (H)Ledger. > > However, when I saw the README, it says: > >> Transity is licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later and can be used free of charge >>

Re: Why CC-BY and CC-BY-SA licenses are DFSG-free?

2019-08-18 Thread Mihai Moldovan
* On 8/18/19 10:02 AM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > [...] and not > NC and ND variant ones? I had tried to find the explanation on this > mailing list, but seems like there is nothing found. In very short: the NC part conflicts with point 6: "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor", because it d

Re: [z...@freedbms.net: Veracrypt license - how to change it]

2019-08-07 Thread Mihai Moldovan
* On 8/7/19 12:58 PM, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > Agreed. There is no way to obtain tacit permission for anything except > what the copyright holder has already declared (except for copyright > expiration, but that takes veeery long). In order to relicense, explicit > permission must be given by e

Re: [z...@freedbms.net: Veracrypt license - how to change it]

2019-08-07 Thread Mihai Moldovan
* On 8/7/19 9:31 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > In the interests of having Veracrypt be distributable by Debian, > all Veracrypt code must be licensed accordingly. > > This can be done by public notice (see below). Re-licensing can be a difficult, lengthy process and - as far as I've seen in the on

Re: Missing source in firefox-esr: EME module

2019-07-02 Thread Mihai Moldovan
On July 3, 2019 1:55:04 AM GMT+02:00, Simon McVittie wrote: >On Tue, 02 Jul 2019 at 15:20:37 -0400, Nat Tuck wrote: >> It'd probably be necessary to go through the packages in main and see >> if any other packages download and install proprietary software at >all, >> or if this is just Firefox eve

Re: Copyright concerns regarding Seafile

2019-05-13 Thread Mihai Moldovan
Hi Since no one has answered so far, I feel free to chime in. * On 5/12/19 9:39 PM, Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote: > > We ask Debian to consider removing and stop distributing Seafile packages [1] > due to copyright concerns. [...] First of all, thank you for your in-depth analysis and bringing t

Re: Does Debian itself have a license?

2018-09-17 Thread Mihai Moldovan
IANAL: * On 09/17/2018 07:14 PM, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On 09/09/2018 12:51 AM, Ben Finney wrote: >> My understanding is that the entire operating system is delivered as >> packages, and each package declares its copyright information in its >> ‘/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGENAME/copyright’ document

Re: IUPAC/InChI-Trust Licence DFSG-Compliant ?

2018-02-26 Thread Mihai Moldovan
* On 02/26/2018 10:28 PM, Ole Streicher wrote: > The LGPL-2.1 starts with > > | Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies > | of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. > ^^ > > I am therefore wondering whet

Re: GPL-2+ with additional trademark spice

2018-01-30 Thread Mihai Moldovan
* On 01/30/2018 02:08 PM, Daniel Hakimi wrote: > This is allowed, but it is not an exception or modification to the GPL. You > cannot remove permissions from the GPL under any circumstances. Rather, this > is > allowed because the GPL is, in no way, a trademark license. If anything, the > above co

GPL-2+ with additional trademark spice

2018-01-30 Thread Mihai Moldovan
Hi While working on a package (not yet part of Debian), I noticed the following copyright and license notice: # This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, # modify, copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of # the GNU General Public License v.2, or