Re: Question about a custom license from dictconfig

2014-08-27 Thread MJ Ray
Riley Baird wrote: My intuition would tell me that other people named Vinay Sajip would not be able to use their name in advertising or publicity pertaining to the software. However, this same logic would also apply to everything written under 3-clause BSD, the only difference being that the

Re: Question about a custom license from dictconfig

2014-08-27 Thread Riley Baird
Also, how does not allowing the usage of a name in advertising make it non-DFSG free? Discrimination against named persons fails DFSG 5 for sure, doesn't it? It might also fail 1 or 3 because it seems like the reverse of licences that REQUIRE authors to disclose their names, which I think

Question about a custom license from dictconfig

2014-08-26 Thread Dariusz Dwornikowski
Hi, I encountered this license while packaging (as in this file [1]). My questions is, what type of license is it, and is it DFSG compatible ? Please CC me, I am not on the list. [1] https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/dictconfig/raw/53b3c32dea4694cd3fb2f14b3159d66d3da10bc0/src/dictconfig.py

Re: Question about a custom license from dictconfig

2014-08-26 Thread MJ Ray
Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: I encountered this license while packaging (as in this file [1]). My questions is, what type of license is it, and is it DFSG compatible ? Please CC me, I am not on the list. [1]

Re: Question about a custom license from dictconfig

2014-08-26 Thread Dariusz Dwornikowski
On 26.08.14 15:44:44, MJ Ray wrote: Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: I encountered this license while packaging (as in this file [1]). My questions is, what type of license is it, and is it DFSG compatible ? Please CC me, I am not on the list. [1]

Re: Question about a custom license from dictconfig

2014-08-26 Thread Jonathan Paugh
On 08/26/2014 10:03 AM, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: On 26.08.14 15:44:44, MJ Ray wrote: Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: I encountered this license while packaging (as in this file [1]). My questions is, what type of license is it, and is it DFSG compatible ? Please CC me, I am not on the list.

Re: Question about a custom license from dictconfig

2014-08-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 03:44:02PM +0100, MJ Ray a écrit : Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: I encountered this license while packaging (as in this file [1]). My questions is, what type of license is it, and is it DFSG compatible ? Please CC me, I am not on the list. [1]

Re: Question about a custom license from dictconfig

2014-08-26 Thread Riley Baird
The only thing I'm not sure about is whether it's OK for other people also called Vinay Sajip to release changes under their own name. Anyone know? If not, then it fails DFSG. Here is the problematic text: the name of Vinay Sajip not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to

Re: Question about a custom license from dictconfig

2014-08-26 Thread Dariusz Dwornikowski
non-advertisement clauses are very frequent and I have not seen that they cause a problem. Also, the license in question is already present in a large number of files in Debian. http://codesearch.debian.net/search?prev=q=the+name+of+Vinay+Sajip Just a side effect, I noticed that xen