Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] Is Red Hat allowed to distribute this?

2007-03-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 3/12/07, inode0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/12/07, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand it, if FSF asserts a copyright, I cannot distribute it under any terms, unless there is a further permission to do so. I don't think public domain is that further permission.

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] Is Red Hat allowed to distribute this?

2007-03-13 Thread Oliver Schulze L.
John Summerfield wrote: But the question is whether that particular file is in the public domain, or whether it's copyright. It It says: // Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. // This file is in the public domain. Its in public domain, and the work is done by the FSF. I don't

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] Is Red Hat allowed to distribute this?

2007-03-12 Thread John Summerfield
inode0 wrote: On 3/11/07, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: inode0 wrote: On 3/11/07, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm hoping RH is still paying attention to this list Ok, but the gettext package upstream is clearly distributed under the GPL Versioin 2 or later.

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] Is Red Hat allowed to distribute this?

2007-03-12 Thread John Summerfield
Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 3/11/07, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ head -5 /usr/share/doc/gettext-devel-0.14.6/examples/hello-java-awt/Hello.java // Example for use of GNU gettext. // Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. // This file is

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] Is Red Hat allowed to distribute this?

2007-03-12 Thread inode0
On 3/12/07, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand it, if FSF asserts a copyright, I cannot distribute it under any terms, unless there is a further permission to do so. I don't think public domain is that further permission. Doesn't the statement that the subpackage in

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] Is Red Hat allowed to distribute this?

2007-03-11 Thread Stanley, Jon
-list@redhat.com Sent: Sun Mar 11 16:53:46 2007 Subject: [rhelv5-beta-list] Is Red Hat allowed to distribute this? I am looking at my screen which looks like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ head -5 /usr/share/doc/gettext-devel-0.14.6/examples/hello-java-awt/Hello.java // Example for use of GNU gettext

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] Is Red Hat allowed to distribute this?

2007-03-11 Thread John Summerfield
Stanley, Jon wrote: It says the license is LGPL in the rpm -qi that you gave below - is that not the case? Is some other license actually included? All that is is the packager's interpretation of something {s,}he read. I wouldn't give it any weight at all. Probably, as its from FSF, that

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] Is Red Hat allowed to distribute this?

2007-03-11 Thread John Summerfield
inode0 wrote: On 3/11/07, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking at my screen which looks like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ head -5 /usr/share/doc/gettext-devel-0.14.6/examples/hello-java-awt/Hello.java // Example for use of GNU gettext. // Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] Is Red Hat allowed to distribute this?

2007-03-11 Thread John Summerfield
inode0 wrote: On 3/11/07, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm hoping RH is still paying attention to this list Ok, but the gettext package upstream is clearly distributed under the GPL Versioin 2 or later. So what again are you worried about? If the piece in question

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] Is Red Hat allowed to distribute this?

2007-03-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 3/11/07, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: inode0 wrote: On 3/11/07, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking at my screen which looks like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ head -5 /usr/share/doc/gettext-devel-0.14.6/examples/hello-java-awt/Hello.java // Example for