Re: Need advice for dual licensing

2005-05-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 06:36:53PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: Hi, Anybody got a good advice for how to dual license some of the software I've developed. I would like to use GPL for non-commercial use (e.g. private persons and universities) and a commercial license for companies. Please

Re: Need advice for dual licensing

2005-05-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 12:38:20PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: in response to Don Armstrong I'm very sorry, the top posting was not intentional. I will also try not to Cc: to people who don't want an extra copy. On Fri, 13 May 2005, Svante Signell wrote: I just wanted to know if dual

Re: New 'Public Domain' Licence

2005-06-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 01:38:24PM -0400, astronut wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Jeff King wrote: The latter message is from me. I am looking for such a license, as I am trying to avoid ridiculous license propagation. My ideal license would

Re: GR: GFDL Position Statement

2006-01-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 10:41:26AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:53:56 +1100 Andrew Donnellan wrote: I think that KPovModeler was developed with the intention that you have POV-Ray installed. It will work fine without it, but it can only save KPMs and POV files, and

Re: Sun responds to questions on the DLJ

2006-05-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 08:09:18PM -0500, Tom Marble wrote: All: Let me start by repeating the message that Simon and I gave to you at Debconf: there is every reason for us to be friends and working with you is very important for Sun. big snippage of much good explanation and technical

Re: License missing in the tarball but present on the website

2007-04-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:24:26PM +0200, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote: Hello, The vdrift upstream uploaded a data tarball with some content licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.5 license. After discution there are agree to relicense these files under GNU

Re: Are debian/ubuntu distributions commercial applications from a legal point of view?

2009-11-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:48:43PM +, MJ Ray wrote: Laszlo Lebrun wrote: Do you know about any jurisprudence about that question? According to David A. Wheeler, the US Department of Defense has recognised FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) as being on the same basis as Commercial

Re: Possible violation of license(s) on debian derivative

2010-03-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 10:39:53PM +, Etenil wrote: Hi everyone, I contact you regarding a possible breach of the terms of at least the GPL license on the Etch-based distribution Elive. http://www.elivecd.org/Help/License As you can see in the above link, the distribution is licensed

Re: rtl-sdr packaging: Unable to find copyrtight holders for some files

2013-09-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 03:31:00PM +0200, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) wrote: Hello! I packaged rtl-sdr [1] a while ago but I'm having a serious legal issue. Some files related to DVB-T tuners don't have any headers and upstream [2] didn't answer my call for help... tuner_fc2580.{c,h} seem to

Re: clarify FTP master delegation?

2014-03-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 07:19:18PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: That means that it is for the FTP team to set that policy. AFAIAA this is the best description of the FTP team policy: https://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html My impression is that the type of issue currently under

Re: How to free US governmental code

2015-06-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 06:07:52PM -0400, James Cloos wrote: WL == Walter Landry wlan...@caltech.edu writes: WL I found something here WL ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change WL I do not think it applies in this case. WL Cheers, WL Walter Landry Thanks

Re: Bug#979101: Legally problematic GPL-3+ readline dependency

2021-01-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 06:45:14PM -0300, Carlos Henrique Lima Melara wrote: > Control: tags -1 + confirmed > > Hi, folks. > > I'm the new maintainer of devtodo and would appreciate an assistance of the > debian-legal on the license matter. As noted, devtodo is licensed under > GPL-2 only,

Re: I need help my acct was hacked

2021-09-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 12:42:52AM -0500, Scarlett Kelley wrote: > My email account sk21rene...@gmail.com and scarlettdickinso...@gmail.com > were hacked and they stole all of my crypto and used github and created an > app called crypto kitties and the character octocat on GitHub I do not know >

Re: Is 'The Unlicense' DFSG-compliant?

2021-12-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 07:33:45AM +0100, Jan Gru wrote: > Dear debian-legal-members, > > I am wondering, whether you consider 'The Unlicense' [0] to be > DFSG-compliant? On the OSI-mailing list [1] has been a discussion > arguing, that this license model is > > a) not global > b) inconsistent

Re: Re: Is 'The Unlicense' DFSG-compliant?

2021-12-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 06:58:19AM +0100, Jan Gru wrote: > Dear Andy, > dear list members, > > thank you very much for your reply and your thoughts on this issue. > I want to pose two concrete follow/up questions if you allow. > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 13:00:08 +0000, An

Re: linuxcnc licensing issues

2022-12-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 01:38:28PM +0100, Adam Ant wrote: > [Stripping HTML formatting where I see it - could you please use plain text] > > Large portions of the core code base are labeled as LGPL-2 - There is no such > > licence. It is either GPL-2 or LGPL-2.1 > > A bit of history: > >

Re: Fonts that must be purchased - nonfree?

2023-06-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 05:22:17PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > On 6/11/23 16:37, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 01:19:48PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I was stumbled on Söhne font collection, primarily due to ChatGP

Re: Fonts that must be purchased - nonfree?

2023-06-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 01:19:48PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > Hi, > > I was stumbled on Söhne font collection, primarily due to ChatGPT > uses it for its web interface. I'd like to also use it for hypothetical > web app (let's name it foodb) to be packaged in Debian (due to design >

Re: About distribution of modified copy of Debian OS

2023-05-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 06:33:35PM +0200, Borja Sanchez wrote: > Dear Debian Project Team, > > My name is Borja Sanchez, writting from Spain. I am currently planning to > run a paid course where I will distribute a modified version of Debian, > rebranded and renamed. This software will be offered