Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: [publican-list] Adjusting copyright information

2009-10-07 Thread Richard Fontana
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:01:52 -0400 Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 01:22:46PM +1000, Ruediger Landmann wrote: So far we've looked at the WTFPL[1], CC0[2], and the so-called GNU All-Permissive License[3]. We had to regretfully reject the WTFPL on the

[Fedora-legal-list] Re: New blog post

2009-10-07 Thread Tom spot Callaway
On 10/07/2009 03:10 PM, Colby Hoke wrote: I understand all of that. I'm saying what if someone else cuts it up and each time he mentions developers, he suddenly says Nazis. (Yeah I went there, I'm just saying...) I tend to believe that the people who want to make disgusting and hateful remixes

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: [publican-list] Adjusting copyright information

2009-10-07 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
RF == Richard Fontana rfont...@redhat.com writes: [Offensiveness of WTFPL text] RF Agreed, this is unfortunate. :) Might I suggest simply modifying the offensive language? I know license proliferation is bad, but if the result is legally equivalent and serves the necessary purpose then I

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: [publican-list] Adjusting copyright information

2009-10-07 Thread Richard Fontana
[removed publican-list from cc] On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:44:54 -0500 Jason L Tibbitts III ti...@math.uh.edu wrote: [re: WTFPL] Might I suggest simply modifying the offensive language? I know license proliferation is bad, but if the result is legally equivalent and serves the necessary

[Fedora-legal-list] Re: New blog post

2009-10-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/08/2009 12:40 AM, Colby Hoke wrote:. For example, there was a remix of the Truth Happens video that was put in with some very questionable material. It was offensive. Due to the copyright (back then we used copyright), we were able to go after that video and, I assume, have it taken it