Re: Skype license

2007-08-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-08-14 14:15:15, schrieb Josselin Mouette: Le lundi 13 août 2007 à 23:38 +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : And more importantly, since Skype is a proprietary, non-standard protocol designed to undermine the standard and free VoIP protocols, there is nothing to gain and much to lose by

Re: Skype license

2007-08-17 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:59:05 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote: [...] Summary: we should spend our time encouraging VoIP solutions built around open protocols and open standards, instead of engaging in legalistic wanking for the privilege of distributing software prepared by our proprietary

Re: Skype license

2007-08-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 13 août 2007 à 23:38 +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : And more importantly, since Skype is a proprietary, non-standard protocol designed to undermine the standard and free VoIP protocols, there is nothing to gain and much to lose by promoting its use by anything affiliated with the Debian

Re: Skype license

2007-08-13 Thread Mario Iseli
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 01:24:09AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 11109 March 1977, ?ystein Gisn?s wrote: I got a request from a Skype employee who was eager to distribute Skype with Debian. I replied that the current license probably is not compatible with DFSG and promised to ask

Re: Skype license

2007-08-13 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 0 March 1977, Mario Iseli wrote: I got a request from a Skype employee who was eager to distribute Skype with Debian. I replied that the current license probably is not compatible with DFSG and promised to ask debian-legal what has to be done with Skype's license to make it

Re: Skype license

2007-08-13 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Sunday 12 August 2007 22:53, Øystein Gisnås wrote: I got a request from a Skype employee who was eager to distribute Skype with Debian. I replied that the current license probably is not compatible with DFSG and promised to ask debian-legal what has to be done with Skype's license to make

Re: Skype license

2007-08-13 Thread Ben Finney
Magnus Holmgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But even so, Skype uses a proprietary protocol to gain monopoly power over internet voice communication, plus they hack around the NAT problem instead of pushing IPv6 adoption. Skype should not be used by anoone. And more importantly, since Skype is

Skype license

2007-08-12 Thread Øystein Gisnås
Skype is suitable even for non-free. So the primary question is What has to change in Skype's license to make it distributable in non-free?, with the secondary question being the same for main. I posted a question about the Skype license back in 2004 (http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/07

Re: Skype license

2007-08-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 10:53:42PM +0200, Øystein Gisnås wrote: I got a request from a Skype employee who was eager to distribute Skype with Debian. I replied that the current license probably is not compatible with DFSG Are you joking? http://www.skype.com/help/faq/technical.html:

Re: Skype license

2007-08-12 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11109 March 1977, Øystein Gisnås wrote: I got a request from a Skype employee who was eager to distribute Skype with Debian. I replied that the current license probably is not compatible with DFSG and promised to ask debian-legal what has to be done with Skype's license to make it

Re: Skype license

2007-08-12 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Øystein Gisnås said: I got a request from a Skype employee who was eager to distribute Skype with Debian. I replied that the current license probably is not compatible with DFSG and promised to ask debian-legal what has to be done with Skype's license to make it

Re: Skype license

2007-08-12 Thread Ben Finney
Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11109 March 1977, Øystein Gisnås wrote: I got a request from a Skype employee who was eager to distribute Skype with Debian. I replied that the current license probably is not compatible with DFSG and promised to ask debian-legal what has to be