Re: Does this license meet DSFG?

2010-04-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <20100410130817.gq25...@anguilla.noreply.org>, Peter 
Palfrader  writes

So I cannot combine a work licensed under this license with a work
licensed under GPL3 + SSL exception because the latter does not
allow downgrading to gpl2 (or upgrading to gpl3+).


I think you're wrong here. Being pedantic, NO version of the GPL allows 
regrading. It's the "grant of licence" that allows the regrading.


Is this intentional?


No. Because the grant of licence DOES allow regrading, therefore what 
any particular version of the GPL says is irrelevant. The recipient CAN 
change the licence from GPL3 to GPL2 (or vice versa) because the *grant* 
gives him permission.


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Wol
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Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-14 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
Paul Wise wrote:
> I'd strongly suggest to indicate a preference about which license you
> would like them to choose.
> 
> I would personally suggest standard FLOSS licenses like BSD,
> MIT/Expat, ISC, GPL + font exception etc. If those aren't acceptable,
> the SIL OFL is a DFSG-compatible compromise between font foundry needs
> and free software principles.

Yes! Recommending a particular validated model and explaining how it
will benefit both upstream and downstream is much more effective in such
advocacy efforts.

I recommend you take advantage of the campaign resources on
http://www.unifont.org/go_for_ofl/

Considering how various key Libre Software communities have given their
support to the licensing model it seems like a good model to recommend
to URW. Various fonts in CTAN are under OFL as well.

Hopefully your advocacy efforts will benefit many people throughout the
communities. Thanks! Let us know how it goes.

BTW the font exception for the GPL still has a bunch of unsolved
problems. I wouldn't recommend that.

Cheers,


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Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-14 Thread Walter Landry
Nicolas Spalinger  wrote:
> Paul Wise wrote:
>> I'd strongly suggest to indicate a preference about which license you
>> would like them to choose.
>> 
>> I would personally suggest standard FLOSS licenses like BSD,
>> MIT/Expat, ISC, GPL + font exception etc. If those aren't acceptable,
>> the SIL OFL is a DFSG-compatible compromise between font foundry needs
>> and free software principles.
> 
> Yes! Recommending a particular validated model and explaining how it
> will benefit both upstream and downstream is much more effective in such
> advocacy efforts.
> 
> I recommend you take advantage of the campaign resources on
> http://www.unifont.org/go_for_ofl/
> 
> Considering how various key Libre Software communities have given their
> support to the licensing model it seems like a good model to recommend
> to URW. Various fonts in CTAN are under OFL as well.

Please do not recommend the OFL.  Legally requiring a name change is
unfriendly and subject to abuse.  Not allowing a font to be sold by
itself is a useless countermeasure.  It is GPL-incompatible to boot.
As someone who just recently needed a GPL compatible font, it was
quite annoying trying to find one.

Also, I found this page

  http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/Font_Licensing

which mentions

  Despite the problems, the base 35 PostScript fonts donated by URW++
  to (originally) the Ghostscript project are licensed under the GPL,
  with an exception similar to the font above.

But then I found this page

  http://www.advogato.org/person/raph/diary/257.html

which says

  By the way, URW did not donate these fonts under the GPL out of
  their own hearts. Artifex paid good money for them, and donated them
  out of a mix of self-interest and altruism.

So is may be easy to change the license to GPL, but you may want to
talk to Artifex, not URW++.

> Hopefully your advocacy efforts will benefit many people throughout the
> communities. Thanks! Let us know how it goes.
> 
> BTW the font exception for the GPL still has a bunch of unsolved
> problems. I wouldn't recommend that.

What are these problems?  A quick search yielded nothing.

Cheers,
Walter Landry
wlan...@caltech.edu


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Re: ms-sys contains MBRs which are copyrighted by Microsoft

2010-04-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
leorolla dijo [Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 06:23:59AM -0700]:
> For security reasons it could perform a checksum verification to
> protect the user from a corrupt or virus-infected backup file.
> 
> So the simple changes in the source would be:
> * remove the problematic file from the source code
> * change the source code to
> -look for a 446-byte file with a specific filename
> -if absent, produce error message explaining what the user is supposed
> to do and exit
> -perform the checksum verification
> -if fails, produce appropriate error message and exit
> -copy the file to the mbr
> 
> (Is it also be copyright violation to distribute checksums along with
> the program? In this case, add "look for the presence of a checksum
> file with a given name etc; if absent, produce an error message
> telling the user to copy it from a trusted source etc and exit".)

Humm... and given the search space is just giant (and not
mindboggingly huge), you could even add a loop that generates a random
446-byte-long content until it matches the md5sum and the sha1sum for
said file?

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Re: ms-sys contains MBRs which are copyrighted by Microsoft

2010-04-14 Thread Walter Landry
Gunnar Wolf  wrote:
> leorolla dijo [Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 06:23:59AM -0700]:
>> For security reasons it could perform a checksum verification to
>> protect the user from a corrupt or virus-infected backup file.
>> 
>> So the simple changes in the source would be:
>> * remove the problematic file from the source code
>> * change the source code to
>> -look for a 446-byte file with a specific filename
>> -if absent, produce error message explaining what the user is supposed
>> to do and exit
>> -perform the checksum verification
>> -if fails, produce appropriate error message and exit
>> -copy the file to the mbr
>> 
>> (Is it also be copyright violation to distribute checksums along with
>> the program? In this case, add "look for the presence of a checksum
>> file with a given name etc; if absent, produce an error message
>> telling the user to copy it from a trusted source etc and exit".)
> 
> Humm... and given the search space is just giant (and not
> mindboggingly huge), you could even add a loop that generates a random
> 446-byte-long content until it matches the md5sum and the sha1sum for
> said file?

The math does not work.  The search space is still too unfeasibly
large.  There are 2^(8*448) different combinations.  You will find a
collision in md5sum first, though the sun would have burned out long
before the loop completed.

Cheers,
Walter Landry
wal...@geodynamics.org


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ESDC-EAD: Controle da Constitucionalidade

2010-04-14 Thread noticias
EAD - Controle da Constitucionalidade






Curso livre 

Controle da Constitucionalidade

 

Prof. Dr. Marcelo Lamy

Advogado e Consultor Jurídico. Bacharel em Direito (UFPR). Mestre em Direito 
Administrativo (USP). Doutor em Direito Constitucional (PUC-SP). Professor 
do Programa de Pós-Graduação Stricto Sensu (Mestrado) em Direito Ambiental 
e Internacional - UNISANTOS. Professor participante do Programa de 
Pós-Graduação 
Stricto Sensu (Mestrado e Doutorado) em Direito - UFPE. Diretor da Escola 
Superior 
de Direito Constitucional - ESDC. Coordenador e Professor da Pós-Graduação 
Lato Sensu em Direito Constitucional da ESDC. Professor de Direito 
Constitucional 
- FACIPLAC. Professor convidado do Instituto Jurídico Interdisciplinar da 
Faculdade 
de Direito da Universidade do Porto. Secretário da Associação Brasileira dos 
Constitucionalistas - Instituto Pimenta Bueno. Diretor da Revista Brasileira 
de Direito Constitucional - RBDC, dos Cadernos Interdisciplinares 
Luso-Brasileiros 
e da Revista Notandum. Diretor do Núcleo Pensamento e Criatividade (ESDC - 
Escuela de Pensamiento y Criatividade de Madri), do Núcleo Humanidades (ESDC 
- Centro de Estudos Medievais Oriente & Ocidente da Faculdade de Educação da 
USP- CEMOrOc-USP) e do Núcleo Direito Interdisciplinar (ESDC - IJI). 

 

Carga horária:40 horas

Matrículas Abertas (vagas limitadas)

Início:14 de ABRIL de 2010

Investimento: R$ 236,00

Metodologia: O curso é dividido em 4 blocos quinzenais. O participante recebe 
quinzenalmente um texto (redigido pelo professor e acompanhado de decisões 
judiciais atuais e relevantes) para estudo e um exercício avaliativo. Antes 
de receber o próximo bloco, tem de retornar por email com as respostas da 
aferição 
da aprendizagem. Todas as avaliações são analisadas pelos professores tutores 
e, na medida do necessário, encaminham-se novas diretrizes de estudo. 
Suplantadas 
satisfatoriamente as quatro avaliações, o participante fará jus a certificado 
de aproveitamento.

 



Inscrição On-Line

 

Plano Geral de Estudos

1. FUNDAMENTOS DO CONTROLE DA CONSTITUCIONALIDADE. Garantia da Constituição 
Norma e da Constituição Valor. A Inconstitucionalidade e suas Espécies (formal 
ou material, total ou parcial, por ação ou por omissão, originária ou 
superveniente, 
antecedente-imediata ou conseqüente-derivada, direta ou indireta). Fundamentos 
teóricos do Controle da Constitucionalidade (supremacia na jurisprudência 
norte-americana, 
supremacia e federalismo, supremacia e consciência constitucional). Modelo 
do Judicial Review. Modelo político-jurisdicional austríaco. Modelo político 
francês.

2. MODELO BRASILEIRO DE CONTROLE DA CONSTITUCIONALIDADE. Evolução histórica 
(Constituição de 1824, Constituição de 1891, Constituição de 1934, Constituição 
de 1937, Constituição de 1946, Constituição de 1967, EC 1/69, EC 7/77, 
Constituição 
de 1988, EC 3/93, EC 45/04). Sistema de controle da constitucionalidade adotado 
no Brasil (Controle de Constitucionalidade Preventivo - Não-Jurisdicional 
Interno, 
Não-Jurisdicional Externo, Jurisdicional Difuso, Jurisdicional Concentrado. 
Controle de Constitucionalidade Repressivo ou Sucessivo - Não-Jurisdicional 
Externo, Jurisdicional Difuso, Jurisdicional Concentrado).

3. REGIME JURÍDICO DO CONTROLE JUDICIAL CONCRETO. Controle Judicial Concreto 
na 1ª instância (questão constitucional concreta e prejudicial; momento da 
apresentação; legitimidade de parte no controle difuso; atos sujeitos ao 
controle 
difuso; Controle de Constitucionalidade Concreto nas Ações Civis Públicas). 
Controle Judicial Concreto nos Tribunais (o incidente de 
inconstitucionalidade). 
Controle Judicial Concreto no STF (controle concreto no STF; controle judicial 
concreto pela via recursal; Causa Petendi aberta; participação do amicus curae 
e de outros interessados; admissão da modulação dos efeitos; admissão de 
audiências 
públicas; outros requisitos relevantes).

4. TEORIA DOS PRECEDENTES CONSTITUCIONAIS. Fundamentos da teoria dos 
precedentes 
constitucionais (o precedente como fundamento de racionalidade). O que se 
entende 
por precedente constitucional. Espécies de precedentes: vinculante, preceptivo 
ou persuasivo. Como analisar os precedentes (elementos constitutivos das 
decisões, 
espécies de decisões colegiadas, logicidade dos precedentes). Utilização dos 
precedentes (Técnica da Aplicação, Técnica da Aplicação por Analogia, Técnica 
da Distinção, Técnica da Superação).

5. EFEITOS AMPLIFICADOS DOS PRECEDENTES: Repercussão Geral das Questões 
Constitucionais 
(art. 102, §3º da CF, artigos 543-A e 543-B do CPC). Julgamento de “idêntica 
questão de direito” no STJ (artigo 543-C do CPC). SÚMULA COM EFEITO VINCULANTE. 
Regime Constitucional (Reiteradas decisões e a generalização das razões 
anteriores; 
Atualidade da controvérsia; Controvérsia se dê sobre a validade, interpretação 
ou eficácia; Controvérsia acarrete insegurança jurídica e multiplicação de 
processos; Possibilidade de revisão;