License DSFG-free?

2002-12-02 Thread Christian Kurz
[I'm not subscribed to debian-legal, so if there are any issues with the license, then please send me a copy of the e-Mail. I'm goint to set the Mail-Followup-To header accordingly.] Hi, according to my ITP on debian-devel and in the BTS, I'm going to package tinycdb. First the current license

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.html there's a version 3.2. Hmm, is this file Free? There's a license on that same page: Limitations on Rights to Redistribute This

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's another limitation in this clause, though: ... and used in documentation or programs. This would preclude using the files as part of a work of art, for example. Is that too limiting for the DFSG? Documentation of *anything*, however, not

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-02 Thread Walter Landry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) wrote: Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's another limitation in this clause, though: ... and used in documentation or programs. This would preclude using the files as part of a work of art, for example. Is that too limiting for

Re: Hardware license

2002-12-02 Thread Walter Landry
Rich Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Umm; the .sch and .pcb files are not really source code; they are more like .pdf files. Also, I'm using a GPL rather than BSD license for the traditional philosophical reasons: this is an addition to

Re: Hardware license

2002-12-02 Thread Walter Landry
Rich Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 26 November 2002 01:59 pm, Rich Walker wrote: We've been putting together some robot-related software and hardware. We want to release this with a DFSG-compliant license set. For the software,

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems like a polite letter to the appropriate standards body would be in order here. The current license is close enough to what is needed that there are really only minor modifications needed. The license needs to explicitly allow distribution of

Re: License DSFG-free?

2002-12-02 Thread Steve Langasek
Hello, On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:25:43AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: according to my ITP on debian-devel and in the BTS, I'm going to package tinycdb. First the current license for this package: |This package is written by Michael Tokarev, based on ideas and API |found in cdb-0.75 package

Re: License DSFG-free?

2002-12-02 Thread Brian M. Carlson
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:25:43AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: according to my ITP on debian-devel and in the BTS, I'm going to package tinycdb. First the current license for this package: |This package is written by Michael Tokarev, based on ideas and API |found in cdb-0.75 package by