Re: License DSFG-free?

2002-12-05 Thread Christian Kurz
On [03/12/02 17:12], Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 08:12:50PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: So Michael (and neither I ;-) wouldn't mind changing the current license text to something else to keep the code in public domain. *Software in the public domain does not require a

Re: License DSFG-free?

2002-12-03 Thread Christian Kurz
On [03/12/02 4:29], Brian M. Carlson wrote: 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

Re: License DSFG-free?

2002-12-03 Thread Christian Kurz
On [02/12/02 21:14], Steve Langasek wrote: 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

Re: License DSFG-free?

2002-12-03 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
Brian M. Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: |You can do whatever you like with this package. The code is placed |at the public domain. Public domain is free. One manpage calls it something like the only true free. Indeed. |This package is distributed in a hope it will be useful, but

Re: License DSFG-free?

2002-12-03 Thread Richard Braakman
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:25:43AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: |You can do whatever you like with this package. The code is placed |at the public domain. Placing in the public domain is not a valid concept in all jurisdictions. It's not always possible to abandon copyright. It's probably

Re: License DSFG-free?

2002-12-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 04:07:36PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:25:43AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: |You can do whatever you like with this package. The code is placed |at the public domain. Placing in the public domain is not a valid concept in all

Re: License DSFG-free?

2002-12-03 Thread Richard Braakman
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:50:09AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 04:07:36PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:25:43AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: |You can do whatever you like with this package. The code is placed |at the public domain.

Re: License DSFG-free?

2002-12-03 Thread Christian Kurz
On [03/12/02 16:07], Richard Braakman wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:25:43AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: |You can do whatever you like with this package. The code is placed |at the public domain. Placing in the public domain is not a valid concept in all jurisdictions. It's not

Re: License DSFG-free?

2002-12-03 Thread Christian Kurz
On [03/12/02 10:52], Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 08:56:57AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: Although technically not a license, I believe the above statement is sufficient to place the code in question in the public domain. This means that there is no longer a copyright

Re: License DSFG-free?

2002-12-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 08:12:50PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: So Michael (and neither I ;-) wouldn't mind changing the current license text to something else to keep the code in public domain. *Software in the public domain does not require a license*. So would having a copyright file

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: 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