Re: inquery about "GPL with commercial exception"

2015-10-08 Thread Debian/GNU
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-10-08 16:32, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Anyway, further discussing the matter won't clarify it much. The > clear result, /methinks, is that we all agree this is DFSG-unfree. > Whether it is distributable in non-free... Is subject to >

Re: inquery about "GPL with commercial exception"

2015-10-10 Thread Debian/GNU
On 10/09/2015 03:40 AM, Ben Finney wrote: >> > - they could dual-license the work under "GPL+exceptions" (to spare >> > their happy audience) and under a "Linux Sampler License" (which would >> > be the same but under a different name) just to clarify. the proposal was to dual-license under (1) a

inquery about "GPL with commercial exception"

2015-09-29 Thread Debian/GNU
i'm currently thinking about packaging "linuxsampler", which has a somewhat abominable license, which they call "GPL with commercial exception" [1]. however, it is unclear whether this license allows us to distribute the software in "non-free", or whether the contradictory nature renders the

Re: inquery about "GPL with commercial exception"

2015-09-30 Thread Debian/GNU
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-09-30 02:18, Ben Finney wrote: > Yes, that is clearly what the GPL calls an “additional restriction” > on the recipient's exercise of their freedoms guaranteed by the > GPL. > > GPLv2 §6: > > Each time you redistribute the Program (or any

Re: inquery about "GPL with commercial exception"

2015-09-29 Thread Debian/GNU
On 09/29/2015 06:58 PM, Jeff Epler wrote: > As a consequence of the second item, I believe LinuxSampler is not > distributable at all alessio brought to my attention that the license of LinuxSampler was already discussed on debian-legal 10 years ago, and it seems that they came to a similar

Re: inquery about "GPL with commercial exception"

2015-09-29 Thread Debian/GNU
hi, thanks for the quick reply. On 09/29/2015 06:58 PM, Jeff Epler wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 05:14:11PM +0200, IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) > wrote: >> i'm currently thinking about packaging "linuxsampler", which has a >> somewhat abominable l

GPL with exclusive re-licensing exception (BSD3)

2016-06-09 Thread Debian/GNU
this is a question that i'm mainly concerned about as upstream (the project may need to go a long way until it can be packaged for Debian). is it possible/feasible/DFSG-compatible to have software licensed under the GPL2+, but with a special explicit license-grant as BSD-3 to a single person for

EULA vs BSL

2017-11-17 Thread Debian/GNU
hi, i was playing with the idea about packaging the Decklink SDK by Blackmagic (this is an SDK to access digital video grabbing cards). the SDK consists of a dozen or so header files, and some example code, including pre-compiled binaries. there's also a 200 pages manual on how to use the SDK.

Re: EULA vs BSL,EULA vs BSL

2017-11-21 Thread Debian/GNU
(please CC me, as i'm not subscribed to the list) On 2017-11-20 22:20, Walter Landry wrote: >> >> now i wonder, are these header files licensed under the EULA or under >> the BSL? > > Are the headers sufficient for development, or does it require some > compiled libraries? If so, it does not