Advice on wicd license

2008-09-14 Thread David Paleino
Hello *, I'm packaging wicd for Debian, and it's licensed under GPL-2+. However, one of its components (uninstall.sh) carries this license: # Copyright 2008 Robby Workman [EMAIL PROTECTED], Northport, AL, USA # Copyright 2008 Alan Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lizella, GA, USA # All rights reserved. #

Re: Advice on wicd license

2008-09-14 Thread Ben Finney
David Paleino [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm packaging wicd for Debian, and it's licensed under GPL-2+. However, one of its components (uninstall.sh) carries this license: # Copyright 2008 Robby Workman [EMAIL PROTECTED], Northport, AL, USA # Copyright 2008 Alan Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: Advice on wicd license

2008-09-14 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:19:55 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: David Paleino [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm packaging wicd for Debian, and it's licensed under GPL-2+. However, one of its components (uninstall.sh) carries this license: # Copyright 2008 Robby Workman [EMAIL PROTECTED], Northport,

Re: Advice on wicd license

2008-09-14 Thread Ben Finney
David Paleino [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:19:55 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: The whole license is effectively identical to the terms of the Expat license URL:http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt. Well, I'd regard this license as a BSD-1, i.e. BSD with just the first

Re: Advice on wicd license

2008-09-14 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:03:27 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: David Paleino [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:19:55 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: You're right, and [the All rights reserved clause] should best be removed by the copyright holder. You might like to communicate with

Re: Advice on wicd license

2008-09-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080914 10:20]: David Paleino [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm packaging wicd for Debian, and it's licensed under GPL-2+. However, one of its components (uninstall.sh) carries this license: # Copyright 2008 Robby Workman [EMAIL PROTECTED], Northport, AL,

Licence query

2008-09-14 Thread Julian Gilbey
Hi all! I'm looking at a package (GLFW, bindings to OpenGL from Haskell) which has the following licence. I think that it is DFSG-free, but I'd like someone else to check over it, as I've not seen a licence exactly like this one before. Many thanks! Julian Licence follows: Copyright (c)

Re: Licence query

2008-09-14 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:10:17 +0100 Julian Gilbey wrote: Hi all! Hi! :) I'm looking at a package (GLFW, bindings to OpenGL from Haskell) which has the following licence. I think that it is DFSG-free, but I'd like someone else to check over it, as I've not seen a licence exactly like

Re: Licence query

2008-09-14 Thread Måns Rullgård
Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:10:17 +0100 Julian Gilbey wrote: Hi all! Hi! :) I'm looking at a package (GLFW, bindings to OpenGL from Haskell) which has the following licence. I think that it is DFSG-free, but I'd like someone else to check over it,

Re: Licence query

2008-09-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Måns Rullgård said: There is one thing about that license that strikes me as slightly odd. Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the

Re: Licence query

2008-09-14 Thread Måns Rullgård
Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This one time, at band camp, Måns Rullgård said: There is one thing about that license that strikes me as slightly odd. Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and

Re: Licence query

2008-09-14 Thread Måns Rullgård
Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This one time, at band camp, Måns Rullgård said: Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This one time, at band camp, Måns Rullgård said: There is one thing about that license that strikes me as slightly odd. Permission is granted to anyone to

Re: Licence query

2008-09-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Måns Rullgård said: Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This one time, at band camp, Måns Rullgård said: There is one thing about that license that strikes me as slightly odd. Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,