Re: Bug#200411: www.debian.org: confusing description of non-US sections

2003-07-17 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06:46:15PM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: Patented software does not have to be patent-encumbered (for example, we have many programs and libraries in both main and non-US/main that use CAST5 [0], which is patented). Patent-encumbered software would use things like LZW,

Re: GFDL - status?

2003-07-17 Thread Nick Phillips
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 06:47:18PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: If it's electronically (YM digitally?) stored, then I say it's software. I see no reason to make this word a synonym for computer programs, and in practice I see people refer to a large variety of digitally stored data as

Re: Bug#200411: www.debian.org: confusing description of non-US sections

2003-07-17 Thread Brian M. Carlson
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:45:39AM +0200, Matt Kraai wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06:46:15PM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: Patented software does not have to be patent-encumbered (for example, we have many programs and libraries in both main and non-US/main that use CAST5 [0], which is

Re: Implied vs. explicit copyright

2003-07-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Drew Scott Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is the an implied copyright notification (I.e. code added by person) sufficient in the debian/copyright or is it necessary to say explicitly say year copyright person? There is no such thing as implied copyright. But that doesn't really help

Re: DFSG FAQ (draft)

2003-07-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Barak Pearlmutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With a little help, I've composed a draft DFSG FAQ. It meant as an introduction to issues discussed on debian-legal, with some general background material to help bring naive readers up from ground zero. I like it. I would suggest: * In the