Re: copyright question for abuse
Take the public domain part and put it in one package. Take the non-free part and put it in another package. You already knew this but I said it as context for the following: Contact the author and ask them to issue the following more-legaly-correct license _only_ on the public domain part: Crack dot com surrenders its copyright rights to this software and releases it into the public domain. Package the rest with their old copyright. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: copyright question for abuse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) wrote on 21.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Take the public domain part and put it in one package. Take the non-free part and put it in another package. You already knew this but I said it as context for the following: Contact the author and ask them to issue the following more-legaly-correct license _only_ on the public domain part: Crack dot com surrenders its copyright rights to this software and releases it into the public domain. Package the rest with their old copyright. Well, that's one option. The other is to replace all references to public domain with references to freeware. Should have the same effect for us. It's just that Copyright and public domain don't mix (and very few people seem to understand this). MfG Kai -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
copyright question for abuse
Crack dot Com has decided to release abuse as public domain software. So no more a.out abuse, once I get the new one built. But I do have a couple of questions about their copyright: This release is to the public domain, meaning there are very few restrictions in on use. But here are a few : Restrictions : Crack dot Com retains ownership of the Abuse Trademark and data sets. Disclaimer of Warranty : As with most Public Domain software, no warranty is made or implied by Crack dot Com or Jonathan Clark. Export Restrictions : I'm not a very legal person, so I don't know if PD software can be exported countries subject to U.S.A. export restrictions (currently Cuba, Yugoslavia, Hati, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Syria). Just to be safe don't put it there. Things you CAN do : Make another game and sell it commercially Use bits and parts as you see fit. Learn how to make a better game Port Abuse to any system you like. This all seems ok except for maybe the export restrictions section. We don't have a non-Cuba-Yugoslavia-Hati-Iran-Iraq-North-Korea-and-Syria section like we have a non-us section.. so does abuse belong in non-free or on some us-only ftp site, or what? Also, what is being released into the public domain is the abuse engine, but not the data files for the actual game (levels, sounds, so on). Those still have a non-free copyright. So there will probably be a abuse-libs package that is in non-free, which will stick abuse, which will depend on that package, right back in contrib, where it is now. -- See shy Jo. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: copyright question for abuse
Crack dot Com has decided to release abuse as public domain software. So no more a.out abuse, once I get the new one built. But I do have a couple of questions about their copyright: This release is to the public domain, meaning there are very few restrictions in on use. But here are a few : Restrictions : Crack dot Com retains ownership of the Abuse Trademark and data sets. What does data sets mean? Anyways, I think they are saying that they are retaining copyright, and just licensing it. This is the same as most of our other software. Disclaimer of Warranty : As with most Public Domain software, no warranty is made or implied by Crack dot Com or Jonathan Clark. Export Restrictions : I'm not a very legal person, so I don't know if PD software can be exported countries subject to U.S.A. export restrictions (currently Cuba, Yugoslavia, Hati, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Syria). Just to be safe don't put it there. Nobody is allowed to export software (or hardly anything, really) to these countries. This can be safely ignored. Things you CAN do : Make another game and sell it commercially Use bits and parts as you see fit. Learn how to make a better game Port Abuse to any system you like. This all seems ok except for maybe the export restrictions section. We don't have a non-Cuba-Yugoslavia-Hati-Iran-Iraq-North-Korea-and-Syria section like we have a non-us section.. so does abuse belong in non-free or on some us-only ftp site, or what? Don't worry about it. Also, what is being released into the public domain is the abuse engine, but not the data files for the actual game (levels, sounds, so on). Those still have a non-free copyright. So there will probably be a abuse-libs package that is in non-free, which will stick abuse, which will depend on that package, right back in contrib, where it is now. Sounds like the libs can go into the free section. Cool. Cheers, - Jim pgpLacEnIAZ72.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: copyright question for abuse
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This all seems ok except for maybe the export restrictions section. We don't have a non-Cuba-Yugoslavia-Hati-Iran-Iraq-North-Korea-and-Syria section like we have a non-us section.. so does abuse belong in non-free or on some us-only ftp site, or what? Don't worry about that. The same statement could be made about the entire main distribution. Also, what is being released into the public domain is the abuse engine, but not the data files for the actual game (levels, sounds, so on). Those still have a non-free copyright. So there will probably be a abuse-libs package that is in non-free, which will stick abuse, which will depend on that package, right back in contrib, where it is now. At least it won't be a.out any more. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
