License issues with md5deep

2007-08-19 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
use I'm not subscribed to debian-legal. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=438753 -- Giovanni Mascellani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pisa, Italy Web: http://giomasce.altervista.org SIP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 0x5F1FBF70 (FP: 1EB6 3D43 E201 4DDF 67BD 003F FCB0 BB5C 5F1F BF70) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Apache license and machine-readable copyright

2009-02-16 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
f not, what should I write? Thanks, Giovanni. (please, Cc: me, as I'm not subscriber to d-l) -- Giovanni Mascellani Pisa, Italy Web: http://giomasce.altervista.org SIP: g.mascell...@ekiga.net Jabber: g.mascell...@jabber.org / giova...@elabor.homelinux.org GPG: 0x5F1FBF70 (FP: 1EB6 3D43 E20

Re: Apache license and machine-readable copyright

2009-02-16 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
s a legal problem. But I don't know how to fit this situation in the machine-readable copyright format. Should I just discard che Copyright: field? Maybe the copyright format proposal should be amended in order to allow this sort of situations. Regards, Giovanni. -- Giovanni Mascellani Pisa,

Apache LGPL compatibility

2010-05-14 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
ERE --- TTBOMK, since this license is GPL-incompatible because of the advertising clause, it is also LGPL incompatible. Con you confirm that? Please, Cc: me when replying. Giovanni. -- Giovanni Mascellani Pisa, Italy Web: http://poisson.phc.unipi.it/~mascellani Jabber: g.mascell...@jabber.org / giova

License of the GPL license

2018-04-16 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
e think about this issue? Thanks and all the best, Giovanni. -- Giovanni Mascellani Postdoc researcher - Université Libre de Bruxelles

Re: License of the GPL license

2018-04-18 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
for the info. Giovanni. -- Giovanni Mascellani Postdoc researcher - Université Libre de Bruxelles

Re: Hacking License

2018-12-14 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
eatment for "organizations" makes it non free, and there are some points that might contradict the law, thus possibly making it invalid; but this is just my opinion, and it is pretty irrelevant since it is not me the one who will have to judge). However it gives you a criterion

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-18 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
licitors, over the view > of a software engineer, at least on legal matters. Absolutely sensible. Then why are you asking on a mailing list of programmers? Maybe asking on a mailing list of qualified solicitors would give you more satisfaction. Cheers, Giovanni. -- Giovanni Mascellani Postdoc rese

Re: no need to keep non-copylefted files that way in a copylefted project. (was Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence)

2019-03-20 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
o. ReactOS people know something about this. So this example really convinces me that FRR people are doing right, and there is no reason for Debian to change anything there. Giovanni. -- Giovanni Mascellani Postdoc researcher - Université Libre de Bruxelles signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Free Software Guidelines Question

2019-04-04 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
way. Your software seems to be directed to a rather small niche, so I am not sure it would be appropriate to include it in non-free. I hope this helps. Regards, Giovanni. -- Giovanni Mascellani Postdoc researcher - Université Libre de Bruxelles signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [z...@freedbms.net: Veracrypt license - how to change it]

2019-08-07 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
as written to patch the removal is actually independent. Giovanni. -- Giovanni Mascellani Postdoc researcher - Université Libre de Bruxelles signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [z...@freedbms.net: Veracrypt license - how to change it]

2019-08-08 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
a law saying that you cannot modify or redistributed other people's copyrighted code unless you have explicit permission. > Just because we are normally not taught about tacit consent, does not > mean that tacit consent does not exist, or is not used on a daily > basis all over the planet. Yes, but for other things. HTH, Giovanni. -- Giovanni Mascellani Postdoc researcher - Université Libre de Bruxelles signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [z...@freedbms.net: Veracrypt license - how to change it]

2019-08-10 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
d also find some comments about the matter at hand, but I could not, so I am left with the hope that my answers were satisfying enough for you. Thanks, Giovanni. -- Giovanni Mascellani Postdoc researcher - Université Libre de Bruxelles signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: GPL2 + required to have the place to get the recent version

2019-11-13 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
nse. If they really want to impose code publication when the software is used to offer a remote service, maybe they should consider AGPL instead of home-made notices. But maybe they are not aware of it. If they opt for this way, I don't think that AGPL has DFSG problems. Giovanni. -- Giovan

Re: Bug#964815: it looks like dprof2calltree cannot be distributed with a GPL-2 work

2020-07-11 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
be interpreted as a permission to do so. It is also specific (for that particular purpose), prior and written. So I don't believe there is any conflict between these two points. Giovanni. -- Giovanni Mascellani Postdoc researcher - Université Libre de Bruxelles signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: hard linking libboost copyright files

2024-02-06 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
Hi, Il 04/02/24 06:38, Muhammad Yaaseen ha scritto: we see that the copyright for libboost debian packages are 2MB each and are all the same. as per https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html section 12.5 we a