Re: Ogre demos distribution

2007-10-20 Thread Ben Finney
Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 10/19/07, Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But hopefully, the copyright holder will clarify the statement. The Ogre project lead had this to say. 'Use' is meant to mean 'do anything with'. Copy, modify, distribute, eat, worship, paint in

Re: Ogre demos distribution

2007-10-19 Thread Andres Mejia
On 10/19/07, Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But hopefully, the copyright holder will clarify the statement. The Ogre project lead had this to say. 'Use' is meant to mean 'do anything with'. Copy, modify, distribute, eat, worship, paint in large letters on the side of a subway train.

Re: Ogre demos distribution

2007-10-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Steve Langasek: On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 03:58:25PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp, MJ Ray said: Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] You may use this sample code for anything you like, it is not covered b

Re: Ogre demos distribution

2007-10-19 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Marco d'Itri wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can one tell that they intend 'use' to mean 'use, copy, distribute and modify' or something like that? It's not obvious from the written text and By applying some common sense. Then what do you do if the copyright holder refuses to apply

Re: Ogre demos distribution

2007-10-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* MJ Ray: Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp, MJ Ray said: Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] You may use this sample code for anything you like, it is not covered b y the LGPL like the rest of the engine. No clear permission to

Re: Ogre demos distribution

2007-10-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 03:58:25PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp, MJ Ray said: Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] You may use this sample code for anything you like, it is not covered b y the LGPL like

Re: Ogre demos distribution

2007-10-17 Thread MJ Ray
Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Most of the sources contain this clause. This source file is part of OGRE (Object-oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) For the latest info, see http://www.ogre3d.org/ Copyright (c) 2000-2006 Torus Knot Software Ltd Also see acknowledgements in

Re: Ogre demos distribution

2007-10-17 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, MJ Ray said: Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] You may use this sample code for anything you like, it is not covered by the LGPL like the rest of the engine. No clear permission to modify or distribute. I think it needs clarifying. Sorry. While

Re: Ogre demos distribution

2007-10-17 Thread MJ Ray
Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp, MJ Ray said: Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] =20 You may use this sample code for anything you like, it is not covered b= y the LGPL like the rest of the engine. =20 No clear permission to modify or

Ogre demos distribution

2007-10-13 Thread Andres Mejia
Hello, I'm one of the maintainers for the package ogre. Ogre contains demo programs upstream. However these demos are not distributed through Debian because of the copyright clauses they contain. What I'm asking here is whether or not we can distribute these demos based on their copyright clause