Re: Custom license conditions and grant for Wordplay package

2019-05-04 Thread Moshe Piekarski
On 5/2/19 7:51 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Moshe Piekarski writes ("Re: Custom license conditions and grant for Wordplay > package"): >> The copyright holder made a statement on Facebook chat that he considers >> the code to be in the public domain. Is th

Re: Custom license conditions and grant for Wordplay package

2019-05-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Moshe Piekarski writes ("Re: Custom license conditions and grant for Wordplay package"): > The copyright holder made a statement on Facebook chat that he considers > the code to be in the public domain. Is that enough for me to consider > it such? While legally in

Re: Custom license conditions and grant for Wordplay package

2019-04-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 12:40 PM Moshe Piekarski wrote: > The copyright holder made a statement on Facebook chat that he considers > the code to be in the public domain. Is that enough for me to consider > it such? Unfortunately dedicating code to the public domain is not feasible world-wide so

Re: Custom license conditions and grant for Wordplay package

2019-04-27 Thread Moshe Piekarski
The copyright holder made a statement on Facebook chat that he considers the code to be in the public domain. Is that enough for me to consider it such? Sincerely, Moshe Piekarski -- There's no such thing as a stupid question, But there are plenty of inquisitive idiots. signature.asc

Re: Custom license conditions and grant for Wordplay package

2019-04-10 Thread Moshe Piekarski
On 4/10/19 9:39 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Before that, it would be better to start a discussion with the copyright > holder(s) to get a more robust grant under free software conditions. Unfortunately the copyright holder hasn't answered any of my emails to the provided address, and I haven't been

Re: Custom license conditions and grant for Wordplay package

2019-04-10 Thread Ben Finney
Moshe Piekarski writes: > On 4/10/19 7:50 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > * If the formulation “please do foo” is an enforcible *condition* on the > > grant, then there are several such enforcible conditions that make > > this work non-free: > Given that the wordplay package may not meet the DFSG,

Re: Custom license conditions and grant for Wordplay package

2019-04-10 Thread Moshe Piekarski
On 4/10/19 7:50 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > * If the formulation “please do foo” is an enforcible *condition* on the > grant, then there are several such enforcible conditions that make > this work non-free: Given that the wordplay package may not meet the DFSG, do I have to remove it? Sincerely,

Re: Custom license conditions and grant for Wordplay package

2019-04-10 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney writes: > = > -- > > Wordplay Version 7.22 Evans A Criswell 03-20-96 > > -- > > This program was written for fun and is

Custom license conditions and grant for Wordplay package (was: license compatibility)

2019-04-10 Thread Ben Finney
debian.mailingli...@melachim.net writes: > What is the work we are discussing? Can we see the full source online > somewhere (to see its entire license grant)? (That was written by me in a previous message, but it's appearing in the material you wrote. I think something is failing in your