Re: Are Web-API packages need to be in the 'main' repo ?
Alexey Eromenko, 2011-12-18 17:24+0100: Let me tell you about the risks we face, we non-free, web-dependent software stays in 'main' repo: 1. More FOSS developers will use it for derivative works (KDE/GNOME-facebook login) 2. One day it will become mandatory to even login into your desktop (Google OS is clearly moving in this direction) I would like to avoid such fate. I mostly agree, but I was only replying to what I saw as a misuse of the desert island test. -- ,--. : /` ) Tanguy Ortolo xmpp:tan...@ortolo.eu irc://irc.oftc.net/Elessar | `-'Debian Maintainer \_ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jcn2mm$rmu$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Unsure If Array 30 Chinese Input Method is DFSG Free or Not.
Yao Wei (魏銘廷) m...@lxde.org I want to confirm if the license below is DFSG free or not: http://www.array.com.tw/company/array_license.pdf The most suspicious part is: When any derived and related work of Array Input Method is released to public, the licensee must inform the original author of Array Input Method within one month by sending an e-mail to: arra...@ms10.hinet.net with the subject: Informing: Array Input Method. The freedom to share one's changes freely under the same terms as the original is essential (DFSG 1+3), so that must looks to me like a fairly classic case of postcardware. I don't believe that has ever been regarded as acceptable under DFSG. See, for example, http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html#weird_clauses and http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/01/msg00010.html There was a chat in #debian-mentors which claims it has discrimination on users who don't use email. I've found it may not pass dissident test (the user must send an email to the original author, thus dissident may expose its email). However, I am wondering if the desert island test is not a *public* environment. IMHO, it is not necessary to inform the author in that environment in that extreme case. I have no way of knowing if the original licensor would agree with that, but regardless of the tests, I feel that this software does not appear to meet DFSGs 1 and 3. I second the suggestion of Paul Wise: asking for a well-known free software licence would be worthwhile. Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1rcg43-0006el...@petrol.towers.org.uk
Re: Unsure If Array 30 Chinese Input Method is DFSG Free or Not.
The postcard part is removed just today. Could you help me reconfirm this license? http://www.array.com.tw/company/array_license.pdf Though I am not sure if the author wants to adopt a well-known license, if it is DFSG free, at least packages including array input method could be kept in main. On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Yao Wei (魏銘廷) m...@lxde.org wrote: Hi all, I want to confirm if the license below is DFSG free or not: http://www.array.com.tw/company/array_license.pdf The most suspicious part is: When any derived and related work of Array Input Method is released to public, the licensee must inform the original author of Array Input Method within one month by sending an e-mail to: arra...@ms10.hinet.net with the subject: Informing: Array Input Method. This is postcardware (when modified) and absolutely fails the Desert Island Test. It is not DSFG free for this reason. IANAL, TINLA, yatta, yatta. -- Chris -- Yao Wei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAJkNRTFNgRwd5NczR-ErwV=M+S=Y=oqikndv-5zfs9-qvqp...@mail.gmail.com
