On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 05:03:09AM +0200, Jakob Bohm wrote:
Note: I am replying only to -legal for now, someone with more
firm knowledge than either me or Mr. Edwards should post a
proper rebuttal to -devel so Mr. Edwards' arguments will not
look undisputed to the broad masses of Debian
Hi debian-legal,
I'm about to package the opensource driver[1] from HighPoint for hpt374-based
controllers, however no license is included in the tarball, nor the FAQ
provides an answer. I'm going to contact highpoint to ask for a license.
Their driver includes binary parts, so it is not
On Friday 06 May 2005 02:28, John Goerzen wrote:
Hi,
I recently came across ths Artistic 2 (2.0beta5) license at:
http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/LICENSE/Artistic-2
I couldn't find any previous reference to a DFSG discussion about it.
Would it be considered DFSG-free?
For reference, the
Thank you for a reasoned response, Jakob. Oh, and by the way -- just
because I am arguing against the legal validity of the FSF FAQ's
claims that linking to a GPL-incompatible work violates the GPL,
doesn't mean I think Debian maintainers or debian-legal should take up
shrugging at GPL
Jakob Bohm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, I have certainly seen no signs that the view expressed in
the GPL FAQ does not have consensus on the debian-legal list.
Apparently, you have failed to see the numerous disagreeing posts that
appear from time to time.
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On 5/5/05, Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry to spam debian-devel -- and with a long message containing long
paragraphs too, horrors! -- in replying to this.
Who is sorry? How sorry?
Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that this sorry-ness is not
something that matters
Raul Miller wrote:
Actually, it tries to define work based on the Program in terms
of derivative work under copyright law, and then incorrectly
paraphrases that definition.
It's probably worth noting that derivative work and work based on
the Program are spelled differently. What's not
*under US law*. The equivalents of fair use elsewhere are often
much more limited. If you read the Berne treaty, you'll see that
it's pretty vague about that. Perhaps you need to add a choice
of law (but not of venue) to your licence?
The last sentence made me think you thought I was talking
On 5/6/05, Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/5/05, Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry to spam debian-devel -- and with a long message containing long
paragraphs too, horrors! -- in replying to this.
Who is sorry? How sorry?
Let's assume, for the sake of argument,
Humberto Massa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
??? Let's try again:
All of this discussion of legal minutia misses (and perhaps supports)
what, to my mind, is the most compelling argument for accepting the
FSF's position on the subject. The fact is that the question does
depend on a lot of legal
On 5/6/05, Jeremy Hankins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You may not be qualified (as I am not) to offer legal advice. But
you're certainly qualified to have an opinion.
Sure. But it's not relevant to this discussion -- despite what many of
the
On 5/6/05, Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/6/05, Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/6/05, Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
Second sentence in Section 0: The Program, below, refers to any
such program or work, and a work based on the Program
On 5/6/05, Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/6/05, Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/6/05, Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe you're objecting to the that is to say phrase, which restates
what
work based on the Program: means.
Attempts to,
I don't, except insofar as C - the Program attempts to paraphrase E
- the Program (= D).
Oh for Pete's sake, (E - the Program) (= D). What a great place for
a word wrap.
- Michael
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