Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-23 Thread Hans Reiser
the credits, they can pay me for the privilege, or live with only the credit they deserve for their work. People who can't live with my credits on work they sell to others should pay. Look at how many companies ripped off squid. And yet, to the best of my knowledge, Squid have

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-23 Thread Andrew Saunders
The above involves sacrificing some very prominent visibility to the users of those that do accept the more onerous licensing terms, in the hope of garnering greater penetration, utilisation and development of the code in the long term. > Look at how many companies ripped off squid. And yet, to the best of my knowledge, Squid have not changed their license to prevent this recurring in the future. I wonder why?

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-23 Thread Hans Reiser
ifications, I would license it under a much simpler, much more direct license like the MIT X11 one. Or just disclaim copyright interest in it (i.e., put it in the public domain). If I were to use the GFDL, my choices would be to not be able to use the changes (so much for copyleft) or start an invaria

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op wo 23-04-2003, om 17:00 schreef Hans Reiser: > Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > > > >Consider that an Evil Company, say, starting with the letter 'M', could > >apparently make its changes to the documentation of a GFDL-licensed > >document near-proprietary by adding invariant sections and cover te

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-23 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
able to the original author. [...] (Note: I gave a specific example that involved insulting the original author of the software) > Why is this a problem? [...] At least too me, it seems to defeat the purpose of copyleft. If I didn't mind if the document was made such that I couldn't use the m

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-23 Thread Hans Reiser
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Consider that an Evil Company, say, starting with the letter 'M', could apparently make its changes to the documentation of a GFDL-licensed document near-proprietary by adding invariant sections and cover texts that are unconscionable to the original author. Something like

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-23 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
discomforted. Our current activities on the GFDL involve writing up a list of objections to the license, to present to the FSF. We are doing this before removing the software from Debian. I think this shows great respect for Mr. Stallman and the FSF that we are spending a fair amount of time forming

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...

2003-04-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 02:44, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:25:11 +0400, Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I want the same visibility of credits for reiserfs that movies give > > for their actors. > > Now imagine if ls or grep wanted the list of contributors to > be s

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...

2003-04-21 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 08:07:19AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > Well, I certainly hope he doesn't want the kind of visibility that the > studio and producer have. Can you imagine it? > > # mkreiserfs > > [clear screen] > > > > > N A M E S Y S [...] Dude,

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...

2003-04-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:25:11 +0400, Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I want the same visibility of credits for reiserfs that movies give > for their actors. Now imagine if ls or grep wanted the list of contributors to be scrolled past, slowly, on every invocation, and insisted t

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-21 Thread Steve Langasek
author. Thank you for making your position clear. If it is your intention that the license of your software be understood to prevent third parties from removing this advertising material from the output of the program, I'm sure that Debian will be more than willing to comply with your wishes

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...

2003-04-21 Thread Craig Dickson
Florian Weimer wrote: > Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I want the same visibility of credits for reiserfs that movies give > > for their actors. > > So you are concerned with the missing ad when mkreiserfs runs? > > In this case, your analogy is wrong. The message does not give

[OT]Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...

2003-04-21 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Russell Coker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:25, Hans Reiser wrote: > > I want the same visibility of credits for reiserfs that movies give for > > their actors. > > 30 seconds after the movie ends the cinema is 95% empty and the credits are > only just started. Only the f

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...

2003-04-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:25, Hans Reiser wrote: > I want the same visibility of credits for reiserfs that movies give for > their actors. 30 seconds after the movie ends the cinema is 95% empty and the credits are only just started. Only the first few names get seen, and those are the ones that a

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...

2003-04-21 Thread Thomas Hood
ner, complain on a mailing list, and so on. Fine. Hopefully an accommodation can be found. If, on the other hand, you assert a legal right to be shown respect in a way that you determine, then it becomes clear that your work is not DFSG-free and so not distributable by Debian. > ReiserFS wi

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...

2003-04-21 Thread Jarno Elonen
> ["About" menu item] > First time users go to them expecting to find out what > the program does, and instead they get the name of the author and remain > just as puzzled about what the program itself is for as they were > before. I hate them. I see.. :) It has become a GUI idiom though, so most

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...

2003-04-21 Thread Florian Weimer
Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want the same visibility of credits for reiserfs that movies give > for their actors. So you are concerned with the missing ad when mkreiserfs runs? In this case, your analogy is wrong. The message does not give proper credit to developers (actors), b

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...

2003-04-21 Thread Hans Reiser
Jarno Elonen wrote: the frontend's "About" box? "About" buttons are an abomination, like the term open source, they gutlessly pretend to be what they are not in an attempt to please by dissembling.;-) First time users go to them expecting to find out what the program does, and instead they g

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-21 Thread Jarno Elonen
s a long credits & thanks list in a very uncomfortable place such as startup, can a free software license really *prohibit modifying the code* so that the listing is moved behind a switch, "about" menu item or such? IMHO, it is reasonable to demand that all credits must be "e

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...

2003-04-21 Thread Jarno Elonen
e credits in documentation or trying to take the credit for ReiserFS tools. The problem now seems to be that: if the program outputs a long credits & thanks list in a very uncomfortable place such as startup, can a free software license really *prohibit modifying the code* so that the

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...

2003-04-21 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi Hans. How about setting the "feelings towards Stallman" issue aside for a moment an focusing on the problem of how Debian handles the credits in you program. I'm not sure whether, for example, moving the Credits to sponsors from being displayed by the programs themselves to the man page and /

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:08, Hans Reiser wrote: > I find it unspeakably ingrateful to Stallman that some of you begrudge > him his right to express his (discomforting to some) views to all who > use his software, and to ensure that they are not removed by those suits > who are discomforted. > > As fa

If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-21 Thread Hans Reiser
ReiserFS distributed for free by anyone who removes the GNU manifesto or similar expressions from Stallman's work (or my own) and redistributes it. It is simply a matter of respect that is due the author. ReiserFS will be converting to the Gnu Free Doc License for its documentation. I look fo

Re: License-fee exemption for mp3 decoders removed?

2002-08-28 Thread Josip Rodin
This is not for -devel! -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.

License-fee exemption for mp3 decoders removed?

2002-08-28 Thread Esteban Manchado Velázquez
H just read at Slashdot that Thomson and Fraunhofer have changed their minds and now want to charge for mp3 decoders, too (?). http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html http://slashdot.org/articles/02/08/27/1626241.shtml?tid=155 http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/openletter.ht

Bug#157449: lintian: check for missing reference to he perl license terms (Was: Re: Possible mass filing of bugs, take #2.1)

2002-08-20 Thread Gergely Nagy
+0200 +++ new/copyright-file 2002-08-20 23:04:41.0 +0200 @@ -164,6 +164,11 @@ print "W: $pkg $type: copyright-does-not-refer-to-common-license-file $1\n"; } +if (m,(under )?(the )?(same )?(terms )?as Perl itself,i && +!(m,usr/share/common-licenses/, || m,usr/share/

Re: The GNU FDL is a free license! (Was: Re: O: gnu-standards --GNU coding standards)

2002-04-11 Thread Michael Stutz
Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is a document, and what is a program? How can Debian even begin > to distinguish what makes free documentation different from free > software when we can't distinguish whether a particular piece of > data is software or documentation in the first pla

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 02:50:21PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > A work licensed under GNU FDL, version 1.1, which consists entirely of > "Invariant Sections" either has no license or is wholly unmodifiable. > Most people on debian-legal agree that this renders

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Dale Scheetz wrote: >So, in fact, both of these licenses are non-free, as they contain clauses >that can be used, and will be considered non-free. > >I find it ... foolish to declare a license to be free IFF some clauses of >the license are not exerci

Re: The GNU FDL is a free license! (Was: Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards)

2002-04-08 Thread Joseph Carter
irely free software. We hold everything to that definition currently, though there clearly is not a consensus that we should continue doing so. Debian has no concept of non-software and our only metric of freeness is the DFSG. The GNU FDL fails to do this. We are hypocrites to make an exceptio

Re: The GNU FDL is a free license! (Was: Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards)

2002-04-08 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 05:22:53PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:29:27PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > IMO, an FDL-licensed document with invariant sections is non-free. As a > > > user of Debian, I'd like to know that they're not installed on my system > > > if I'm

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lun 08/04/2002 à 19:12, Dale Scheetz a écrit : > So, in fact, both of these licenses are non-free, as they contain > clauses that can be used, and will be considered non-free. > I find it ... foolish to declare a license to be free IFF some clauses of > the license are not exer

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Alan Shutko
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I find it ... foolish to declare a license to be free IFF some clauses of > the license are not exercised. Using this language, any proprietary > license becomes free as long as none of the proprietary sections are > inforced by the

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
under version 1.1 of the GNU FDL with no Cover Texts and no Invariant Sections is clearly and plainly DFSG-free. A work licensed under GNU FDL, version 1.1, which consists entirely of "Invariant Sections" either has no license or is wholly unmodifiable. Most people on debian-legal agree that

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Craig Dickson
shell: > > > > 1) The current version of the GNU FDL is uncontroversially DFSG-free if > > there are no Cover Texts and no Invariant Sections. Note that your > > license notice is supposed to indicate the presence or absence of Cover > > Texts and Inva

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Thomas Hood
at is not true of the GFDL because "The GFDL says that invariant sections must cover only topics of how the work relates to the authors or publishers." > I find it ... foolish to declare a license to be free IFF > some clauses of the license are not exercised. Using this > langu

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:36:28PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > 3. I placed my book under this license with the express understanding > > that it was considered free. Now I'm hearing noise that this is a > >

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Dale Scheetz
down before moving things into an > area designated for common, free, licenses, don't you think? Well, if you insist ;-) Actually, on more reflection, (asside from whether or not the GNU Free Documentation License is "Free") the whole purpose of the common license area was to red

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 12:46:23AM -0700, Martin Quinson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 05:57:43PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > There are an ever growing number of packages that make use of the GNU Free > > Documentation License. Isn't it about time to put a copy of this

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Martin Quinson
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 05:57:43PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > There are an ever growing number of packages that make use of the GNU Free > Documentation License. Isn't it about time to put a copy of this license > into the common reference area? > > Who should I talk to

Re: The GNU FDL is a free license! (Was: Re: O: gnu-standards --GNU coding standards)

2002-04-07 Thread Mark Eichin
> How about: /usr/bin/latex is a program - my_neat_little_phdthesis.tex is > a file? Actually, /usr/bin/latex is an interpreter. my_neat_little_phdthesis.tex *is* program code, even though the vast proportion of the content will be literal text for output. See Andrew Greene's BASiX (BASIC interp

Re: The GNU FDL is a free license! (Was: Re: O: gnu-standards --GNU coding standards)

2002-04-07 Thread Adam Olsen
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:22:51AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 05:15:16PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > > In fact, XML and HTML (and I would imagine therefore CSS and XSLT) are > > explicitly listed as transparent formats. I'm not going to argue that. > > The problems, alt

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-07 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:36:28PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > 3. I placed my book under this license with the express understanding > that it was considered free. Now I'm hearing noise that this is a > non-free license. While I disagree, that is often irrelevant. &

Re: The GNU FDL is a free license! (Was: Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards)

2002-04-07 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:29:27PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > IMO, an FDL-licensed document with invariant sections is non-free. As a > > user of Debian, I'd like to know that they're not installed on my system > > if I'm only using packages from main. > > The FDL is not DFSG-compliant, but

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-07 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 03:00:37PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > There are an ever growing number of packages that make use of the GNU Free > > > Documentation License. Isn't it about time to put a copy of this license > > > into the common reference area? &

Re: The GNU FDL is a free license! (Was: Re: O: gnu-standards --GNU coding standards)

2002-04-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 05:15:16PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 14:29, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > It's possible to draw a line. The GNU FDL clearly describes what a > > "Transparant copy" is for example. > > Whether or not it describes what a transparent copy is is irrelevant

Re: The GNU FDL is a free license! (Was: Re: O: gnu-standards --GNU coding standards)

2002-04-07 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 05:15:16PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > In fact, XML and HTML (and I would imagine therefore CSS and XSLT) are > explicitly listed as transparent formats. I'm not going to argue that. > The problems, although they're transparent, they're programs as well > as documents. Bl

Re: The GNU FDL is a free license! (Was: Re: O: gnu-standards --GNU coding standards)

2002-04-07 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Il lun, 2002-04-08 alle 00:15, Joe Wreschnig ha scritto: > On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 14:29, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > Unfortunately this is becoming less true. CSS contains statements for > > > content generation and counting variables. Is this a program? I'm not > > > sure, but it's definitely not j

Re: The GNU FDL is a free license! (Was: Re: O: gnu-standards --GNU coding standards)

2002-04-07 Thread Joe Wreschnig
different from free software when we can't distinguish whether a particular piece of data is software or documentation in the first place? ... > The FDL is not DFSG-compliant, but that doesn't make it non-free. I agree. I'm sure someone could show me a non DFSG compliant licen

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dale> On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> >>"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dale> There are an ever growing number of packages that make use of Dale>

The GNU FDL is a free license! (Was: Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards)

2002-04-07 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
t as GPL-licensed software is free software. It places additional restriction, but those restriction aren't really harmful. IMHO the restrictions of the FDL are less harmful than those of the GPL, as the FDL doesn't limit from doing useful things. The GPL does, you can't link GPL'd c

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 05:57:43PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > There are an ever growing number of packages that make use of the GNU Free > > Documentation License. Isn't it about time to put a copy of this license > > into

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dale> There are an ever growing number of packages that make use of > Dale> the GNU Free Documentation License. Isn't it about time to put &g

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-07 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Il dom, 2002-04-07 alle 05:06, Joseph Carter ha scritto: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 05:57:43PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > There are an ever growing number of packages that make use of the GNU Free > > Documentation License. Isn't it about time to put a copy of this license

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dale> There are an ever growing number of packages that make use of Dale> the GNU Free Documentation License. Isn't it about time to put Dale> a copy of this license into the common reference area?

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-06 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 05:57:43PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > There are an ever growing number of packages that make use of the GNU Free > Documentation License. Isn't it about time to put a copy of this license > into the common reference area? > > Who should I talk to ab

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-06 Thread Richard Braakman
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 05:57:43PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > There are an ever growing number of packages that make use of the GNU Free > Documentation License. Isn't it about time to put a copy of this license > into the common reference area? No, it would be premature. There&#

The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
There are an ever growing number of packages that make use of the GNU Free Documentation License. Isn't it about time to put a copy of this license into the common reference area? Who should I talk to about this? Waiting is, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of "Dwarf's Guide to D

adding MIT to free license examples in policy

2001-09-11 Thread Domenico Andreoli
would it be a good idea to add MIT/X license to the examples of free licenses at the end of #2.1.1 of the policy? how can i ask for this change? thanks -[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://filibusta.crema.unimi.it/~cavok/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E

license for a mix of free sw + propritary stuff

2001-04-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hello, I would like to package a set of programs, that are linked against a propritary library. The author has signed a NDA in order to develop the library (see below) and is not allowed to publish the source. Though, he placed the frontend tools unto GPL, and is willing to change the license to

Re: Pyton 1.6's license

2000-09-09 Thread Adam Keys
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 05:30:28PM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > Based on this, that leaves us with three options: > > 1.) Replace Python 1.5.2 with Python 1.6 in the Debian development tree > ("woody"). > > Then we had to remove all packages that might be t

Re: Pyton 1.6's license

2000-09-08 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
d don't feel KK> it's incompatible, but it could be damaging to either Debian, KK> Python, or both if it can't be packaged. Can't Python 1.6 be KK> licensed under more than one license like Perl? Just a word of clarification from the Debian Python mai

Re: Bochs / VGA-Bios license question / freebios anyone?

2000-08-14 Thread goswin . brederlow
Ulrich Eckhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Roland Bauerschmidt wrote: > > As Goswin mentioned earlier it's also possible to use bochs with some > > other bios > [snip] > > I´m not sure if this even touches this discussion but what about using the > bios > that is already

Re: Bochs / VGA-Bios license question / freebios anyone?

2000-08-14 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Roland Bauerschmidt wrote: > As Goswin mentioned earlier it's also possible to use bochs with some > other bios [snip] I´m not sure if this even touches this discussion but what about using the bios that is already present on most computers? Wouldn´t that reduce the dependen

Re: Bochs / VGA-Bios license question / freebios anyone?

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew Lenharth
I originally ITPed bochs. Unfortunately it would have to go in non-free. the VGA-BIOS included is licensed only for use and distribution with bochs. It therefor cannot be seperated into a seperate package from bochs (and if bochs is packaged, it should ge removed from the source archive. Andrew

Re: An advise how to apply for the TkMan author to change his license.

2000-03-15 Thread Shaul Karl
typed and types a > phrase twice). > > If that's the case it should be a trivial fix. > The situation is that I am trying to maintain TkMan while applying to be a debian maintainer. The new TkMan license is stated above. Yet as far as I understand this license is not enough for askin

Re: 'impact' ttf license?

2000-03-15 Thread Stefan Ott
h includes some gifs using the IMPACT > > (windows) truetype font. > > now i wonder if this is ok, because i don't know about impact's license. > > does anyone? > > Distribution of rendered fonts is legal provided that you aquired the font > rendered legally

'impact' ttf license?

2000-03-15 Thread Stefan Ott
hello i'm planning to package a perl tool i made (available at http://tools.desire.ch/perlbeat) which includes some gifs using the IMPACT (windows) truetype font. now i wonder if this is ok, because i don't know about impact's license. does anyone? thanks for your help Stefan

Re: Free Documentation License

2000-03-13 Thread Raul Miller
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 08:30:08PM -0400, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > I think we have a problem here. The DFSG clearly does not apply to > documentation, just like the GPL. As the FSF created a new license, we need > to create guidelines to what we consider a "free documentatio

Re: Free Documentation License

2000-03-12 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> Personally, I have to wonder if this type of thing is DFSG-free: I think we have a problem here. The DFSG clearly does not apply to documentation, just like the GPL. As the FSF created a new license, we need to create guidelines to what we consider a "free documentation", as in free speech.. =)

Re: Free Documentation License

2000-03-11 Thread Jules Bean
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 04:54:20AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Jordi wrote: > > Should this new license be included in base-files? > > That seems very premature. Best wait until > > 1) It is a common-license > 2) debian-legal has vetted it > > Personally, I have to w

Re: Free Documentation License

2000-03-11 Thread Joey Hess
Jordi wrote: > Should this new license be included in base-files? That seems very premature. Best wait until 1) It is a common-license 2) debian-legal has vetted it Personally, I have to wonder if this type of thing is DFSG-free: If you publish printed copies of the Document numbering m

Free Documentation License

2000-03-11 Thread Jordi
Should this new license be included in base-files? -- Jordi Mallach Pérez || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Rediscovering Freedom, ka Oskuro in RL-MUD || [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| Using Debian GNU/Linux http://sindominio.net GnuPG public information: pub 1024D/917A225E telnet pusa.uv.es 23

Re: License nightmare "Contingency Plan" (sort of longish)

1999-09-20 Thread Raul Miller
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 03:15:47PM -0500, Andrew G . Feinberg wrote: > B) Offender does not relent and/or makes funny faces at us > Of course we are horrified by the funny faces, but how do we defend our > licensing? Perhaps we need a lawyer for this part. I suggest that we tell them that th

License nightmare "Contingency Plan" (sort of longish)

1999-09-20 Thread Andrew G . Feinberg
il saying "I am on the case" or something to that effect. However, what if Bruce fails? We (or SPI) own the copyrights to much of Debian. Whatever shall we do? Chew on this: 1) License problem is identified 2) Responsible person (Bruce, Project leader, SPI officer, whatever) contacts offe

Re: [Crackmonkey] Re: [David_Conrad@isc.org: Re: FWD: [David_Conrad@isc.org: Re: Bind 8.2 and greater license?]]

1999-09-16 Thread Richard Stallman
So, while DSA is an unpatented algorithm, the implementation in BIND is not free software any more than the implementation of RSA in BIND is free software. You are right. Free software must not have a license that requires people to obey any country's export controls. It

Re: what's our stance on the opencontent license?

1999-05-25 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 05:47:57PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml > > Did we already have a discussion about this? Yeah, it needs some work. Problem is that I do not receive answers to my inquiries. We opened a board a year ago (with me as a member), but discussio

what's our stance on the opencontent license?

1999-05-25 Thread Will Lowe
http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml Did we already have a discussion about this? Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

1999-05-18 Thread Seth M. Landsman
> > For the record, kaffe is *NOT* as good as the blackdown JDK. I > > have used both, and, as it is, kaffe crashes before my research system > > loads, yet the blackdown jdk works flawlessly. > > So report the bug to the kaffe people, and then they'll fix it, and then > kaffe will work f

Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

1999-05-18 Thread Jules Bean
"Seth M. Landsman" wrote: > > > Basically, we're in BLATANT violation of the license currently. It states > > quite clearly that redistribution is prohibited. So, plain and simple, > > we're shit out of luck. As someone else pointed out, Kaffe is just as &

Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

1999-05-18 Thread Stephen Zander
> "jim" == jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jim> If this is the case, It is & I'm awaiting Sun permission to distribure the jdk with a licence that allows redistribution in some form. -- Stephen (jdk maintainer) --- Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier

Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

1999-05-18 Thread Seth M. Landsman
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 07:48:28PM -0400, Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: > On Mon, 17 May 1999, Seth M. Landsman wrote: > > > What is wrong with distributing an installation package like is > > done with netscape and realaudio? > > Hrm. You know, that didn't occur to me. As long as it contains NOTH

Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

1999-05-17 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Seth M. Landsman wrote: > What is wrong with distributing an installation package like is > done with netscape and realaudio? Hrm. You know, that didn't occur to me. As long as it contains NOTHING of JDK, that's good. :) > For the record, kaffe is *NOT* as good

Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

1999-05-17 Thread Seth M. Landsman
> Basically, we're in BLATANT violation of the license currently. It states > quite clearly that redistribution is prohibited. So, plain and simple, > we're shit out of luck. As someone else pointed out, Kaffe is just as > good, with better response. But either way,

Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

1999-05-17 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
On Mon, 17 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > I am given to understand that someone has found a problem in the license of > jdk, to the point that same person finds that debian cannot distribute > the jdk at all. I was told that the problem found in the license has > existed

Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

1999-05-17 Thread Jules Bean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi > > I am given to understand that someone has found a problem in the license of > jdk, to the point that same person finds that debian cannot distribute the jdk > at all. I was told that the problem found in the license has existed for a > lo

jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

1999-05-17 Thread jim
Hi I am given to understand that someone has found a problem in the license of jdk, to the point that same person finds that debian cannot distribute the jdk at all. I was told that the problem found in the license has existed for a long time. If this is the case, WHY is a jdk that doesn&#

Re: Abacus Portsentry License

1999-05-17 Thread UnderGrid Founder
intrusion detection coupled with both hostSentry and logcheck... This could also lend itself to modules for portSentry as I had a external module that would get call'd when portSentry would be triggered... Before deciding to just accept portSentry as being non-free on the basis of the cu

Re: Abacus Portsentry License

1999-05-16 Thread Ben Pfaff
Rene Mayrhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: As I am new to creating Debian packages, I am not sure if Abacus Portsentry's license allows it to be put in the main (or if it has to go into non-free) section. The program is free to use by anybody and can be distributed in an

Abacus Portsentry License

1999-05-16 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Hi As I am new to creating Debian packages, I am not sure if Abacus Portsentry's license allows it to be put in the main (or if it has to go into non-free) section. The program is free to use by anybody and can be distributed in any form, the only problem is that the author proh

Re: [Fwd: [Jikes-License] Jikes Parser Generator now available i

1999-01-30 Thread Jim Pick
Brent Fulgham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Try Japhar/Classpath: > > www.japhar.org -- free JDK (compiler, runtime, debugger, etc.) > www.classpath.org -- free implementation of the essential java libraries Plus... www.transvirtual.com -- Kaffe JIT www.mozilla.org -- ElectricalFire JIT Cheer

Re: [Fwd: [Jikes-License] Jikes Parser Generator now available in source form]

1999-01-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 27, Mike Goldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >For license-fans: It uses a license based on the revised Jikes license, >i.e., it's the new Jikes license with 'Compiler' changed to 'Parser >Generator'. The termination clause now uses the same lang

Back to the logo license (semi-formal proposal)

1999-01-28 Thread Chris Waters
We have free software guidelines, we have a logo. There may be room for improvement in both, but we do have them. What we lack is a license for the logo. This may be a minor issue, but I believe that it's rather critical right now. It has been suggested that we trademark the logo. This

RE: [Fwd: [Jikes-License] Jikes Parser Generator now available i

1999-01-27 Thread Shaleh
On 27-Jan-99 Brent Fulgham wrote: > Try Japhar/Classpath: > > www.japhar.org -- free JDK (compiler, runtime, debugger, etc.) > www.classpath.org -- free implementation of the essential java libraries > By "we" I meant packaged and working. Ean was supposed to be packaging Kaffe.

RE: [Fwd: [Jikes-License] Jikes Parser Generator now available i

1999-01-27 Thread Brent Fulgham
gt; To: Mike Goldman > Subject: RE: [Fwd: [Jikes-License] Jikes Parser Generator now > available > i > > > Now we need a free JDK and off we go (= > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

RE: [Fwd: [Jikes-License] Jikes Parser Generator now available i

1999-01-27 Thread Shaleh
Now we need a free JDK and off we go (=

[Fwd: [Jikes-License] Jikes Parser Generator now available in source form]

1999-01-27 Thread Mike Goldman
Wonderful news from IBM. I will have packages up shortly. Original Message Subject: [Jikes-License] Jikes Parser Generator now available in source form Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:33:12 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: Way, way off-topic was: Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-26 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 10:33:30AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > You've forgotten something. The military act as if they are above any > > laws. (If they cared about obeying laws, they would be disarming nuclear > > weapons under their international treaty obligations) > > On the contrary.

Way, way off-topic was: Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-26 Thread John Hasler
Andrew writes: > You've forgotten something. The military act as if they are above any > laws. (If they cared about obeying laws, they would be disarming nuclear > weapons under their international treaty obligations) On the contrary. The "military", at least in the US and the UK, act in ac

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-26 Thread A . J . Gray
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 07:26:19AM -, Robert Woodcock wrote: > Avery Pennarun wrote: > >What if someone gets hold of the Linux kernel and uses it to guide nuclear > >missiles? (Well, at least they have to share their changes with us :)) > > Only if they distribute the control systems :> You'v

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