Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-23 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:41:34AM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: If the copyright holder includes a copy of the GPL but writes that the software is licensed under the GPL plus additional restrictions, then this is not illegal as far as I know (there's nothing in the GPL that prevents it

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-23 Thread Mark Rafn
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Brian May wrote: Quoting README, in particular the entire LICENSING section: [Snip text about Hans Reiser assuming the right to re-license contributed work if it's not clearly labelled otherwise. I don't have an opinion on the legality of it, but it doesn't sound

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-22 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 07:54:26AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: Well, doesn't the GPL say something on it being illegal to impose additional restrictions on distribution? If the restriction is agreed upon by all copyright holders, then the issue is murky; as far as I

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-22 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, doesn't the GPL say something on it being illegal to impose additional restrictions on distribution? If the restriction is agreed upon by all copyright holders, then the issue is murky; as far as I know, there's no consensus on this issue on

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-21 Thread Walter Landry
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op za 19-04-2003, om 22:51 schreef Lukas Geyer: the issue seems to be the fix of #152547. If we are not allowed to remove a screenful of advertising from the output of a program, then this unduly restricts the freedom to distribute modified versions.

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-21 Thread Brian M. Carlson
[subscribed to -legal, not to -devel; Cc: accordingly] On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 01:24:09AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Op za 19-04-2003, om 22:51 schreef Lukas Geyer: the issue seems to be the fix of #152547. If we are not allowed to remove a screenful of advertising from the output of a

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-19 Thread Lukas Geyer
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You'll note that ReiserFS anticipated the GNU GPL V3 by including clauses that forbid removal of credits in its license, and for a long time I have been telling Stallman that he needs to get V3 of the GPL

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op za 19-04-2003, om 22:51 schreef Lukas Geyer: the issue seems to be the fix of #152547. If we are not allowed to remove a screenful of advertising from the output of a program, then this unduly restricts the freedom to distribute modified versions. Uhm. From the GPL, section 2: c) If

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 01:24:09AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Op za 19-04-2003, om 22:51 schreef Lukas Geyer: the issue seems to be the fix of #152547. If we are not allowed to remove a screenful of advertising from the output of a program, then this unduly restricts the freedom to

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 01:24:09AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Op za 19-04-2003, om 22:51 schreef Lukas Geyer: the issue seems to be the fix of #152547. If we are not allowed to remove a screenful of advertising from the output of a program, then this unduly restricts the freedom to