Re: "Use as you wish" license

2016-07-05 Thread Roberto
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 03:55:33PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > So I think it is too risky to accept such a license if there is no > explicit permission to all the freedoms needed for DFSG works. Thank you for your answers. It seems there are different views on this so it's probably better to avoid

Re: "Use as you wish" license

2016-07-05 Thread Roberto
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 12:50:55PM +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote: > if the original author of the software really meant "do with it whatever you > like - really, everything" when they wrote "Use as you wish", then I'm sure > they will give you a positive reply when you ask them whether it would be

Re: "Use as you wish" license

2016-07-05 Thread Roberto
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 05:45:59PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > This mailing list is purely advisory (if that, even), and has no > formal decisionmaking status. The actual decisions are made and > implemented by the ftpmasters. Some advisory is valuable for me just before I choose to include such

"Use as you wish" license

2016-07-04 Thread Roberto
I've encountered two simple notices, I wonder if they are acceptable for DFSG under your opinion. Is "Use as you wish" an acceptable license? And, a web page that says some of its content "may be downloaded and used for any projects, without restrictions". There is no explicit mention of

Re: would this custom license considered DFSG-free/GPL-compatible

2016-10-04 Thread Roberto
On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 08:56:22AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > // 4. If anything other than configuration, indentation or comments have been > //altered in the code, the modified code must be made accessible to the > //original author(s). Fails the Desert Island Test:

Re: Freeware Public License (FPL)

2016-11-04 Thread Roberto
On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 07:21:34PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > Hi, > rather than commenting on the several misconceptions and plain false > statements included in the upstream author's answer, I will just > recommend you to reply him something similar to the following: That's an excellent

Re: is igmpproxy dfsg compliant?

2016-11-26 Thread Roberto
On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 12:51:52PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > Yes, but mrouted was release/relicensed under less restrictive BSD > license too. > > As wrote in one of first emails, here is link to text of new mrouted > license: > >

Re: is igmpproxy dfsg compliant?

2016-11-26 Thread Roberto
On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 12:46:45PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > On Thursday 24 November 2016 20:07:43 you wrote: > > > I do not know, but mrouted was relicensed to BSD in 2003 and > > > igmpproxy started in 2005 (according to year in source files). And > > > because BSD is compatible with GPL, you

Re: is igmpproxy dfsg compliant?

2016-11-22 Thread Roberto
On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 02:52:33PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > Because igmpproxy is based on mrouted originally licensed under Stanford > and later relicensed under BSD, I would consider it DFSG compliant... For what is worth, my point of view follows: In general, when a program is relicensed,

Re: is igmpproxy dfsg compliant?

2016-11-22 Thread Roberto
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 02:42:34PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: [...] > Note that smcroute 0.92 was accepted into Debian [4]. > > Due to above GPL facts in igmpproxy files I think that everybody though > igmpproxy is licensed and distributed under GPL. If it was legal and I > correct I do not know...

Re: is igmpproxy dfsg compliant?

2016-11-24 Thread Roberto
On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 07:29:21PM +0100, Roberto wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 06:36:53PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > > I'm not saying that it invalidates. Just that I understood that whole > > igmpproxy can be redistributed under GPLv2+ and some other parts, based > > on

Re: is igmpproxy dfsg compliant?

2016-11-24 Thread Roberto
On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 05:36:57PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > On Tuesday 22 November 2016 16:17:21 Roberto wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 02:42:34PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > > The COPYING file that you linked says "Original license can be found > > in the Stanford.

Re: is igmpproxy dfsg compliant?

2016-11-24 Thread Roberto
On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 06:36:53PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > I'm not saying that it invalidates. Just that I understood that whole > igmpproxy can be redistributed under GPLv2+ and some other parts, based > on mrouted had original license Stanford.txt... and those and only those > parts

Re: is igmpproxy dfsg compliant?

2016-12-02 Thread Roberto
On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 03:53:53PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Pali Rohár writes ("Re: is igmpproxy dfsg compliant?"): > > On Thursday 24 November 2016 19:29:21 Roberto wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 06:36:53PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > > > &g

Re: is igmpproxy dfsg compliant?

2016-12-02 Thread Roberto
On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 06:20:24PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > I'm already in contact with old/original maintainers of igmpproxy hosted > on sourceforge who maintained it until release of version 0.1. > > Those maintainers are not interested in maintaining igmpproxy anymore > and they agreed

Re: JPL Planetary Ephemeris DE405

2018-02-24 Thread Roberto
On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 02:03:44PM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote: > Sure; law is always open to be interpreted by the court. This is > generally true and not specific to this case. Yes but, what I want to say is that, in this particular case, I don't think it's safe to assume that a collection of

Re: JPL Planetary Ephemeris DE405

2018-02-23 Thread Roberto
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 09:14:32AM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote: > Then (and may be more important): These files are not copyrightable ad > all, since they are natural data; they describe *facts*. As one can't > copyright the distance to the moon, one can't copyright the details of > earth rotation.

Re: JPL Planetary Ephemeris DE405

2018-02-24 Thread Roberto
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 11:41:37PM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote: > That is generally not true for scientific databases: When the entries > are selected by objective criteria (which is the common case for such > databases), the database is not copyrightable. That's open to the interpretation of the

Re: JPL Planetary Ephemeris DE405

2018-02-24 Thread Roberto
On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 10:51:55PM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote: > I read that article 7 that you cited as: the maker of a database has the > right to protect it -- which however needs him to be active (which is > not the case for the JPL). Okay, feel free to include databases of facts in Debian if

Re: JPL Planetary Ephemeris DE405

2018-02-25 Thread Roberto
On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 01:47:51PM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote: > Your other argument (with article 7) has nothing do do with copyright: > even when this article applies to a database, it is still not > (necessarily) copyright protected. Article 7 just claims that the maker > of a database *may*

Re: JPL Planetary Ephemeris DE405

2018-02-26 Thread Roberto
On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 09:03:56AM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote: > The directive is about database protection, not (only) about > copyright. It mainly shows *two* independent possibilities how database > are protectable: > > 1. Copyright protection: By accounting the creativity to produce the >

Re: JPL Planetary Ephemeris DE405

2018-02-26 Thread Roberto
On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 10:16:49AM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote: > As far as I know, there is no extension agreement with the US. So, JPL as > the database maker cannot protect the database by article 7. > > Also, the protection in article 7 expires after 15 years (article > 10). The databases

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-19 Thread Roberto
On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 02:08:38PM +0100, David Lamparter wrote: > The respective original authors have expressed and reaffirmed their > wishes for the code to remain under a permissive license. While we > could obviously just slap GPL on top, we have decided to try and honour > the original

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-19 Thread Roberto
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 02:22:08PM +, Paul Jakma wrote: > 3. People took the code of (2), and adapted that code - extensively and >explicitly - to make use of and rely upon the facilities of the code >of (1); facilities which were missing in the code of (2). > > The people involved in

Re: upstream changing from GPL-2+ to GPL-3+ without copyright holders permission

2019-08-05 Thread Roberto
On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 11:37:22PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > In general, I agree. But there might be cases that are less > clear-cut. For example, if the upgrade from GPLv2+ to GPLv3+ is used > to gain permission to combine the work with an AGPL work, especially > if this is done in an

Re: upstream changing from GPL-2+ to GPL-3+ without copyright holders permission

2019-08-06 Thread Roberto
On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 09:18:23AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Many authors provide conflicting license statements. It's not > unusual. In the extreme case, it makes the software undistributable > and unsuitable for Debian. I know, conflicting statements are a serious problem. But that's a

Re: Transity: GPL-licensed but Free only for Non-Commercials

2019-12-20 Thread Roberto
There was a similar case with LinuxSampler a few years ago, restricting *use* of the program in commercial applications. It was removed from Debian and it was concluded that its license is inconsistent, nobody can actually comply with it, because the GPL and the added restriction contradict each

Re: Stack Overflow and copyrightability of small snippets

2020-04-24 Thread Roberto
I want to thank you for your research and bringing up this issue. From now I will start looking for those snippets in the software projects that I'm participating, as I find them worrysome in some particular cases, indeed.

Re: Maxmind GeoIP/Geolite license change

2020-06-15 Thread Roberto
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 08:04:47PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > The reason is that the one-way compatibility mechanism of CC-by-sa v4.0 > is not exceptionally clear, and, without that compatibility, the > CC-by-sa v4.0 license itself has a number of controversial clauses > (non-free, in my own

CC-BY 4.0

2020-06-15 Thread Roberto
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 10:13:30PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > I asked the FSF to publish a reasoned analysis on this. > I did so back in 2015, but nothing has been disclosed yet (as far as I > know). :-( > > I am personally *not* convinced that CC-by v4.0 is GPL-compatible. I think that

Re: Hosting the original youtube-dl sources on salsa?

2020-10-30 Thread Roberto
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 11:15:34PM +0100, Dominik George wrote: > The RIAA seems to be targeting the most vulnerable and leat likely to > defend themselves, otherweise they would be targeting those who upload > content violating copyright laws instead on free software maintainers. > > (Also,

Re: License question about sf2 soundfont in Tuxguitar

2023-01-14 Thread Roberto
>From my personal experience of 15+ years contacting with authors of thousands of "free" sound fonts: they are usually composed of sounds taken from random places, and nobody really knows who made them or what their license are. Many of them take samples from other "free" sound fonts, and chain

Question on wxWindows packages

2003-05-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
. Do they belong in nonfree or contrib because of this? I apologize if this has been asked before or if I am off base, but I am still learning my way around Debian. -Roberto Sanchez ___ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS Super Webcam, voz

Re: Question on wxWindows packages

2003-05-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Adam Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hi Roberto Sanchez, Roberto, this is a standard permissive MIT/BSD-style licence that has no advertising clause and is GPL compatible. The ambiguity in the without fee section is frequently misinterpreted (it means you can do everything listed

Offices have been closed permanently

2006-10-15 Thread Roberto Kennedy
, Find out how to make 1.5 - 3.5k a day from your home. 800.671.9007 Ring me at my number if you can return calls. Thanks, Roberto Kennedy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

geotrans license: asking for advice

2008-10-09 Thread Roberto Lumbreras
? What should I do? What do you think? Regards, -- Roberto Lumbreras Debian developer GEOTRANS Terms of Use: 1. The GEOTRANS source code (the software) is provided free of charge by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) of the United States Department of Defense. Although NGA makes

Re: geotrans license: asking for advice

2008-10-16 Thread Roberto Lumbreras
of geotrans because the authors say so in a mail sent to me (it is not clear in the terms of use). I asked them to rewrite the terms of use but they released a new version without doing it. I you agree I will upload the package to main soon. -- Regards, Roberto Lumbreras This package was Debianized

GeForce nvidia driver license for commerical use?

2022-10-03 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
Hi all, reading this link here below, it seems that compilation and repackaging the content is prohibited by their license. What's your opinion on this? https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/10082/geforce-nvidia-driver-license-for-commerical-use In fact, up today (515.76) the .run

Re: GeForce nvidia driver license for commerical use?

2022-10-03 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
Il giorno lun 3 ott 2022 alle ore 21:50 Simon McVittie ha scritto: > > On Mon, 03 Oct 2022 at 21:12:50 +0200, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote: > > Are you referring to the special permission given by e-mail by Donald Randall > > in 2003? > > I think you're misreading the copyri

Re: GeForce nvidia driver license for commerical use?

2022-10-03 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
Il giorno lun 3 ott 2022 alle ore 20:42 Simon McVittie ha scritto: > On Mon, 03 Oct 2022 at 19:52:23 +0200, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote: > > reading this link here below, it seems that compilation and repackaging > the > > content is prohibited by their license. W

Re: Questions about spacet cadet reverse engineering

2023-01-02 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
On Mon, 2 Jan 2023 at 08:36, Stephan Verbücheln wrote: > > They clearly state that they decompiled binaries from Windows XP. This > means it is a /fork/ and *not* a /clone/. > > Since I have not heard that Microsoft has put a permissive license on > those binaries, I would expect that the

Question on gnuplot licensing and why it is in main

2005-03-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
-list.html#NonFreeSoftwareLicense) which would make it non-free. Is this correct? Should a bug be filed against the gnuplot* packages? -Roberto P.S. please CC me as I am not subscribed to -legal -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Question on gnuplot licensing and why it is in main

2005-03-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
. Correct? I am just trying to make sure that I understand this, for my own edification. -Roberto P.S. Please CC me, as I am not subscribed to -legal. -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [WASTE-dev-public] Do not package WASTE! UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE [Was: Re: Questions about waste licence and code.]

2005-05-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
, the software is not free. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

License question about regexplorer

2005-05-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
-executable forms are available under the terms of this license. ME: Not sure how that affects Debian's distribution of the package. Sorry if this has already been discussed, but I am trying to wrap my head around this. Also, please CC me on all replies, as I am not subcribed to -legal. -Roberto

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Florian Weimer wrote: * Roberto C. Sanchez: I have been recently checking out packages up for adoption or already orphaned. In the process I came across regexplorer [0]. Here are the dependencies of regexplorer and their respective licenses (as I understand it): * libc6 (LGPL) * libgcc1

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Florian Weimer wrote: QPL is usually considered free, but its use is discouraged. An additional exception, as granted by OCaml for example, can improve things. Even though the license says this: You must ensure that all recipients

Re: [Fwd: [gnu.org #243939] Question about 3-clause BSD and GPL compatibility]

2005-05-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Bas Zoetekouw wrote: Hi Roberto! You wrote: Per Branden's request, I am forwarding this to -legal. FSF says that the 3-clause BSD-type license is GPL-compatible. http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wx4j/modules/wx4j/LICENSE.TXT?rev=1.2view=markup ddd This is not a 3-clause BSD

Re: Request for a sponsor for Felix

2005-05-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
license is trying to say, you may want to consider the MIT/X license, BSD (w/o advertising clause), or public domain. IANAL, but I have seen enough discussions about license issues becuase someone wrote their own and forgot something to think that it is usually a Bad Idea(TM). -Roberto [0] http

Re: Timidity-patches eek

2002-09-07 Thread Roberto Gordo Saez
David Given [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking into it, timidity-patches turns out to have been put together from patch files taken from the Midia patch set, distributed with the Midia MIDI renderer that ran on SGI workstations. Midia and its patch Yes, i've been suspecting that, because of the

Packages with non-original copyrighted sounds

2003-05-23 Thread Roberto Gordo Saez
with Debian guidelines. It is very likely that the same occurs with icons, images and other artwork. Maybe i am a little strict with that issues ??. Comments and ideas are apreciated. -- Roberto Gordo - Free Software Engineer Linalco Especialistas en Linux y Software Libre Tel: +34-915970074 Fax

Re: Packages with non-original copyrighted sounds

2003-05-26 Thread Roberto Gordo Saez
it to be a problem. Regards. -- Roberto Gordo - Free Software Engineer Linalco Especialistas en Linux y Software Libre Tel: +34-915970074 Fax: +34-915970083 http://www.linalco.com/

Re: Packages with non-original copyrighted sounds

2003-06-07 Thread Roberto Gordo Saez
about the above rights. Are public domain files (true public domain, copyright declined by the author) also restricted by default? -- Roberto Gordo - Free Software Engineer Linalco Especialistas en Linux y Software Libre Tel: +34-915970074 Fax: +34-915970083 http://www.linalco.com/

Re: Packages with non-original copyrighted sounds

2003-06-07 Thread Roberto Gordo Saez
Found another one: package powermanga-data is shipped with a sound that comes from Windows 95 sounds (file bonus4.wav). The file contains the strings Microsoft Corporation and Windows 95 Utopia Sound Scheme. Should bugs be filled against mentioned packages? -- Roberto Gordo - Free Software

License for the Torque Resource Manager (RFC)

2004-03-11 Thread Roberto Gordo Saez
). Comments, aditional information are welcome, including concerns about the license. I want to be sure that the license is acceptable. -- Roberto Gordo Saez - Free Software Engineer Linalco Especialistas en Linux y Software Libre http://www.linalco.com/ Tel: +34-914561700

OpenPBS/Torque license conclusion?

2004-03-12 Thread Roberto Gordo Saez
currently in process? -- Roberto Gordo Saez - Free Software Engineer Linalco Especialistas en Linux y Software Libre http://www.linalco.com/ Tel: +34-914561700

Is this OK to get httperf back into main?

2005-06-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Is this OK to get httperf back into main? -Roberto - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 07:43:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Martin Arlitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Martin Arlitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: forwarded message from Roberto C. Sanchez

Re: Is this OK to get httperf back into main?

2005-06-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
[Please CC me, I am not on -legal] On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 01:10:07AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:01:51 -0400 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Is this OK to get httperf back into main? Assuming that * httperf is currently released under the GNU GPL v2

Re: Is this OK to get httperf back into main?

2005-06-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
[Please CC me, I am not on -legal] On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 08:51:12PM -0700, Martin Arlitt wrote: Roberto all of the copyright holders have agreed to the exception. as for the rewording of the exception, I will have to check with the people who provided me with the exception that I sent

KJV Bible - Crown Copyright in UK [was: Bug#338077: ITP: sword-text-kvj -- King James Version with Strongs Numbers and Morphology]

2005-11-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:16:52PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: ( Please mail followups to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-legal@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:13:42AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Quoting Lionel Elie Mamane

Re: KJV Bible - Crown Copyright in UK

2005-11-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
looked :) -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto pgpdkGKrMLokV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
different reason). -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

RC bugs for non-free data in main

2006-08-20 Thread Roberto Gordo Saez
I will start to fill bugs for packages containing data (sound, music, images, textures, icons...) when its origin is not specified (see below). Many of this bugs will be RC, because of legal issues; that is the reason for asking first on this list. I won't make an extensive search, but I will

Sorry, no more RC bugs for non-free data in main (was: Bug#385115: chromium-data: Unclear license for some files)

2006-08-30 Thread Roberto Gordo Saez
OK, you win, I will not continue with this. Do whatever you want with the bug. I'm sending this message to debian-legal, in case other people care. On 8/30/06, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For all you've said up to this point, the sound files being used could be in the public domain;

Re: Sorry, no more RC bugs for non-free data in main (was: Bug#385115: chromium-data: Unclear license for some files)

2006-08-30 Thread Roberto Gordo Saez
I strongly disagree with your arguments. It looks that we have opposite way of thinking, so I will not reply to them, it is going to nowhere. Don't worry, as I said, I won't continue searching for this. If this is the common feeling here, I think I made a serious mistake choosing Debian, because

Re: Sorry, no more RC bugs for non-free data in main (was: Bug#385115: chromium-data: Unclear license for some files)

2006-08-30 Thread Roberto Gordo Saez
On 8/30/06, Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Langasek has said, in essence When A says X, and we have no evidence to the contrary, we believe A. Your objection, in essence seems to be We should not believe X when we have no evidence that X is true. Well... more exactly, I try to

Re: Bug#385115: Sorry, no more RC bugs for non-free data in main (was: Bug#385115: chromium-data: Unclear license for some files)

2006-08-31 Thread Roberto Gordo Saez
On 8/30/06, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latter implies that all packages should have RC bugs on them because we should not believe that any of the licenses and copyrights are what upstream says they are. How is that reasonable? Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I think it is still

Re: Hypocrisy of Debian

2006-09-01 Thread Roberto Gordo Saez
Well, I've been reading the responses and I'm sorry for starting all of this. I don't like this kind of discussions, they deeply depress me, but it just happens that lately I'm getting involved frequently on many of them. I want to say some things. I hereby say that, in my subjective point of

Re: Hypocrisy of Debian (was: Sorry, no more RC bugs for non-free data in main ...)

2006-09-09 Thread Roberto Gordo Saez
On 9/5/06, Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Markus Laire ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060830 15:01]: This problem was mentioned in this list on _2004_ but cdrtools still hasn't been removed from Debian (see [2]). IMHO hypocrisy is perfect word to describe such behaviour. This list isn't the

Re: selling web application access

2006-09-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
to be specifically addressed by GPL 3. Thank you for your answers. PS:I know it is not polite, but can you please CC: me? I did not subscribe the list. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: public domain, take ?$B!g

2006-09-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
... What about: The author(s) of this script expressly place it into the public domain. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: License review request: LinuxMagic FSCL

2006-09-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
and all related documents be drafted in English. Les parties ont exigé que le présent contrat et tous les documents connexes soient rédigés en anglais. I'm no legal expert, but I seem to recall that these type of venue selection clauses make the licenses non-free. Regards, -Roberto

Re: Are source packages required to be DFSG-free? (was: Re: New bugs filed regarding non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds)

2006-10-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
can't find a precise quotation in the Debian Policy Manual and point to it. IIRC, the rule is that sources and binaries must be DFSG free. Otherwise, source CDs would fall under different rules than binary CDs. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
otherwise may put ourselves and our mirror operators in peril. So what? Distributing GPL works *with* sources is also not clear of legal liability. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
to neglect to mention that you're not a lawyer. So, do you have anything to say about what Nathanael said? How does his not being a lawyer make his statement false? I don't think the point was that the statement is false, rather that it is unfounded. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:07:00PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: So what? Distributing GPL works *with* sources is also not clear of legal liability. Those liabilities occur in either case, so they're not particularly interesting to discuss

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
it was readable into my initial response, that was definetly not the intention.] OK. I'll drop it then. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: PEAR / PHP License status

2006-12-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
under the PHP license, which is incompatible :/ If you are the author of said application, you could release under the MIT or BSD-type license. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Is this legal? [RFP: djohn -- Distributed password cracker]

2007-01-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
. Some reason why you think it is illegal and *where* you think it is illegal would be important and probably also generate a more fruitful discussion than a simple claim of it's illegal with nothing else. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http

Re: creative commons

2007-01-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:08:19PM -0800, Jeff Carr wrote: On 01/08/07 18:43, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:02:02PM -0800, Jeff Carr wrote: That's good, I'm not convinced that CC in any form isn't DFSG. :) It seems to me the CC is written with the same kind

Re: creative commons

2007-01-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
solely for the purpose of self actualization. All knowledge is shared and there is no impediment to its exchange. Of course, as we live in the real world and are predominantly driven by money as a society, we really can't do as they do in ST:TNG. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http

Re: [OT] mailing list subjects

2007-02-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
interface. Thank you for reading, and forgive me for the OT. Because it waste's space? That's what server-side filtering is for. If you read mail in an 80 character wide terminal, then you will know that many subject lines already get truncated. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http

Re: What should be in debian/copyright when a gpl source now depends on openssl?

2007-02-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
for the GPL. You can check the copyright file for the httperf to see how I handled this same issue. There are others, but that is the only one I can think of off the top of my head. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc

Re: Java in Debian advice result

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
reveals some protected information of the client. I would think that since SPI is the client, they can unilaterally decide to make the information public. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Java in Debian advice result

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
perfect sense to me. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Intel IA-32 EL License - ok for non-free?

2007-04-23 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
a downloader that lives in contrib and just polls the Intel site (or whatever, it can be cron-based or only happen when the admin executes it) and downloads the whole thing, including any updates? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com

Re: Bug#445998: ITP: eaccelerator -- PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache

2007-10-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
them to relicense eaccelerator. If that rewrite is complete, then the software may be distributable. However, I have not looked into it for quite a while. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital

Review of license

2008-04-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
[ Please keep me in the CC since I am not subscribed to -legal ] I was recently asked to sponsor an upload of a package that carries the below license. Is this license acceptable for main? Regards, -Roberto -88

Re: Review of license

2008-04-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:29:05PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: [I'm Cc:ing Roberto, who asked to be Cc:ed, but probably didn't see Joe's reply] Thanks Francesco. This is the type of messed up license obtained when a lawyer never looks over the license, and the drafter is not familar

Documentation copyright/licensing

2008-07-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
the sources. Does the footer statement on documentation pages conflict with that license. My initial inclination is that it does not. Any other opinions? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Question on QuickFIX license

2011-09-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
of the author's source code. But I am not so sure. Regards, -Roberto -8--Complete license text follows--8- The QuickFIX Software License, Version 1.0 Copyright (c) 2001-2010 quickfixengine.org All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms

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