Re: [CinCV] AV Linux and it's 'non-GPL' license

2011-10-06 Thread Daniel Jircik
Well like everyone else who has chimed in on this I am not a lawyer either. Since you are basically doing a Debian remaster look at the model they use for free and non free repositories. I think what's throwing smoke in everyone's eyes is your wording, a "non gpl linux distribution" That sets off m

Re: [CinCV] AV Linux and it's 'non-GPL' license

2011-10-06 Thread Frans de Boer
On 10/06/2011 11:41 PM, Nicola Ferralis wrote: Glen, Please don't feel you're under any pressure, or attack. GPL issues are far from being clear to everybody. I'd just like to add that I have doubts you can re-license the GPL components (which are essentially Debian, so GPL v2), into GPL v3. C

Re: [CinCV] AV Linux and it's 'non-GPL' license

2011-10-06 Thread info
Well then I'm in good company! Thanks for sharing that raffa! -GLEN > On 10/06/2011 11:29 PM, i...@bandshed.net wrote: >>...is everyone greeted with such 'hospitality'?...lol > > No, only special fellows in the same shoes as Cinelerra. :-) > Guess why Cinelerra is not included in Debian and Ubun

RE: [CinCV] AV Linux and it's 'non-GPL' license

2011-10-06 Thread info
Nicola, Thanks, don't worry I understand that these comments are coming from concern not malice. The truth hurts sometimes and evidently I have been somewhat negligent in my comprehension of the GPLs so it's a bit of a wake-up call. So to clarify I meant AV would have to be under the same GPL ver

Re: [CinCV] AV Linux and it's 'non-GPL' license

2011-10-06 Thread Raffaella Traniello
On 10/06/2011 11:29 PM, i...@bandshed.net wrote: ...is everyone greeted with such 'hospitality'?...lol No, only special fellows in the same shoes as Cinelerra. :-) Guess why Cinelerra is not included in Debian and Ubuntu? :-) Ciao! Raffaella PS: a hint to the answer: http://cinelerra.org/docs

RE: [CinCV] AV Linux and it's 'non-GPL' license

2011-10-06 Thread Nicola Ferralis
Glen, Please don't feel you're under any pressure, or attack. GPL issues are far from being clear to everybody. I'd just like to add that I have doubts you can re-license the GPL components (which are essentially Debian, so GPL v2), into GPL v3. Can anybody confirm this? Nicola > Subj

Re: [CinCV] AV Linux and it's 'non-GPL' license

2011-10-06 Thread info
Eeesh! Joining this list has been both uncomfortable and educational at the same time...is everyone greeted with such 'hospitality'?...lol OK, so what about this: AV Linux goes GPL(3) and I issue a disclaimer statement declaring which EXACT packages are 'non-free' but come bundled with the ISO a

Re: [CinCV] Compile problem: "missing" library is present?

2011-10-06 Thread Richard Rasker
Op woensdag 28-09-2011 om 22:31 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Johannes Sixt: > > I'm still rather puzzled about what's going on here ... > > So am I. The tests in your configure script originate from the standard > AC_TRY_LINK and AC_TRY_COMPILE macros. Perhaps pgk-config 0.23 did it > ths way? I

Re: [CinCV] AV Linux and it's 'non-GPL' license

2011-10-06 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:41:21 -0700, wrote: but I was under the impression that any derived work could be licensed outside of the GPL provided the source code of the derived work was made available upon request. You may be confused with the "binary redistribution" clause of the GPLv2, which

[CinCV] AV Linux and it's 'non-GPL' license

2011-10-06 Thread Ichthyostega
> Well I'm not a lawyer either so we have something in common! Hi Glen and the others, likewise, I'll join the club of non-lawyers discussing legal issues ;-) Am 05.10.2011 00:41, schrieb i...@bandshed.net: > I've been distributing AV Linux like this since 2007 and > ... but I was under th