Re: DFSG conform OSI licenses

2007-09-08 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 22:37 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:56:23 +0200 Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: [...] Anyway I below quote both the OSI open source definition and DFSG and as no one pointed me to any analysis on what could cause incompatibilities I am now just

Re: DFSG conform OSI licenses

2007-09-08 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 15:18 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:13:56 -0700 Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Francesco Poli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [Comparison of DFSG and OSD:] OSI based its OSD on the DFSG More specifically, Bruce Perens wrote [...] Yes, that's

Re: DFSG conform OSI licenses

2007-09-03 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 21:56 +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Soeren Sonnenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 12:05 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: The only official statements about DFSG compliance are made by the ftpmasters. Well this is not too helpful. I would wish that licenses

DFSG conform OSI licenses

2007-09-01 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
Dear all, the recent discussion about 'Firebird being in main' caused even more confusion on my side, as the sites [1], [2] (which I consider the debian-official statement wrt. which license is DFSG compliant) do not list the MPL as a DFSG conform license but as DFSG-incompatible [1]. Also the

Re: DFSG conform OSI licenses

2007-09-01 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 12:05 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the recent discussion about 'Firebird being in main' caused even more confusion on my side, as the sites [1], [2] (which I consider the debian-official statement wrt. which license is DFSG compliant) do not list