Bug#301527: ITP: mazeofgalious -- The Maze of Galious

2005-07-13 Thread Michael K. Edwards
Added debian-legal; please drop debian-devel on follow-ups. On 7/9/05, John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is still using a copyrighted/trademarked (don't know which) name There is no such thing as a copyrighted name. The name does appear to have been a trademark at one time, but if

Bug#316487: debian-installer-manual: Missing copyright credit: Karsten M. Self for section C.4

2005-07-01 Thread Michael K. Edwards
IANAL, IANADD, but it's hard for me to imagine that there is any sensible or just way to resolve this other than to credit Karsten with a significant contribution to the Guide. Such a guide is of course largely factual and could bear many resemblances to Karsten's without constituting plagiarism

Bug#309257: Bug #309257: libpano12: patent problems

2005-06-21 Thread Michael K. Edwards
The senior patent holder is presumably now Ford Oxaal, who discusses his licensing policy, his relationship to iPIX, and the status of Helmut Dersch's PT toolset at http://www.pictosphere.com/kwx/faq.html . I have made no attempt to evaluate the strength of his patents in light of the prior art,

Bug#207932: Statement that all of Debian needs to be Free?

2005-06-17 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 6/17/05, Jrme Marant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: etc/{CENSORSHIP,copying.paper,INTERVIEW,LINUX-GNU,THE-GNU-PROJECT,WHY-FREE} only copying.paper sounds like a license; the rest are simply documents, which must be DFSG-free to be in Debian. This is

Bug#310994: ITP: openttd -- open source clone of the Microprose game Transport Tycoon Deluxe

2005-05-27 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 5/27/05, Reinhard Tartler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/27/05, Matthijs Kooijman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthijs Kooijman [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: openttd Version : 0.4.0.1 Upstream Author : Various * URL

Bug#310994: ITP: openttd -- open source clone of the Microprose game Transport Tycoon Deluxe

2005-05-27 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 5/27/05, Matthijs Kooijman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's correct; and, with or without that dependency, OpenTTD infringes the copyright on Transport Tycoon Deluxe under a mise en scene theory, as discussed on debian-legal. (Not to say there's a What do you mean by that exactly? A