Re: License requirements for DSP binaries?

2003-10-08 Thread Thomas Hood
contain binaries, not source code. Has anyone asked IBM yet? I wrote once got no reply. I have just written again to the guys who ported the driver to Linux. -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED]

License requirements for DSP binaries?

2003-09-22 Thread Thomas Hood
for a separate license for the DSP files? -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2003-08-21 Thread Thomas Hood
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. [ ] The GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.2, as published by the Free Software Foundation, is not a license

Suggested small improvements to the (already excellent) DFSG FAQ

2003-07-24 Thread Thomas Hood
comes from the Four Freedoms Speech delivered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in which he ... I suggest: The term 'four freedoms' is a play on words used by the American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a speech in which he ... -- Thomas Hood

Re: DFSG FAQ (draft)

2003-07-16 Thread Thomas Hood
of D. Rumsfeld, we need only add: Having been discovered, the unknowns are no longer unknown, but have become known knowns. And this causes us to have doubts. There are things that we know we doubt, and things that we doubt we know, and ... -- Thomas Hood

Re: Defining 'preferred form for making modifications'

2003-06-17 Thread Thomas Hood
*all* forms of the program in his possession so that we can choose the one we prefer? That seems too burdensome. However, I can't think of a weaker requirement that doesn't allow the licensee off the hook too easily. Enough for now. Thanks for the good feedback. -- Thomas Hood

Re: Proposed: Debian's Five Freedoms for Free Works

2003-06-13 Thread Thomas Hood
1) The freedom to use the Work for any purpose. 2) The freedom adapt the Work to one's needs. Access to the form of the ^to work which is preferred for making modifications (for software, the source code), if applicable, is a precondition for this. 3) The freedom to

Re: The debate on Invariant sections (long)

2003-06-06 Thread Thomas Hood
is not willing to do the same. Each organization will pursue its own vision of freedom even though their visions are different. Documents with invariant sections will go in non-free, but this shouldn't prevent Debian and the FSF from continuing to work together. -- Thomas Hood -- Thomas Hood

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...

2003-04-21 Thread Thomas Hood
be free to delete all the credits he wants to. It is becoming clearer that your software is not DFSG-free. -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CLUEBAT: copyrights, infringement, violations, and legality

2003-01-29 Thread Thomas Hood
written rant. -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com