Package: gs-common
Severity: serious
Hi *,
I am filing this bug/writing this mail because there is a big problem
in the gs packages in woody which needs fixing before release. I would
like to get comments on the changes I want to implement.
Currently I maintain the following set of
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 12:25:12PM +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
[...]
I agree that by using XForms in development, and XForms *is* needed to
compile and run LyX, we have implicitly allowd all users to link Lyx
with XForms.
[...]
I don't think so. It is not enough for
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 11:58:16AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
How about this one?
I told him I would remove the first sentence but other than that it looks
okay to me.
Michael
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If we do something like this, I'd
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 01:44:18PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
people to distribute LyX in both source and binary forms. This permission
certainly includes linking against GUI toolkits like XForms, Motif, GTK,
Qt
or Win32.
`... and distributing the resulting binary.' should
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 08:29:00PM +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
The problem here is that we can't distribute it under the terms of the GPL
(read the kde announcement) while they say it is plain GPL, so they say
they can include other people's GPL-ed stuff. glibc2 doesnt have a
contradictory
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 10:52:19PM +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
[...]
I agree that by using XForms in development, and XForms *is* needed to
compile and run LyX, we have implicitly allowd all users to link Lyx
with XForms.
[...]
I don't think so. It is not enough for KDE, why should
The main difference is that LyX is THEIR code. The problem w/ KDE is not so
much its own code, rather it links other peoples GPL app w/QT and KDE to make
Kapp. This is the brunt of the legal issue. The authors of app where not asked
if it was ok to link w/QT, nor was the license modified to
On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Joseph Carter wrote:
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 10:52:19PM +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
[...]
I agree that by using XForms in development, and XForms *is* needed to
compile and run LyX, we have implicitly allowd all users to link Lyx
with XForms.
[...]
I
How about this one?
I told him I would remove the first sentence but other than that it looks
okay to me.
Michael
- Forwarded message from Matthias Ettrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
If we do something like this, I'd rather suggest a text like:
The GPL is often a source of missunderstanding
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 04:07:31PM +, Raja R Harinath wrote:
I agree that by using XForms in development, and XForms *is* needed to
compile and run LyX, we have implicitly allowd all users to link Lyx
with XForms.
I don't see how it follows. we have implicitly allowed all users to
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 11:18:53PM +0200, Bart Schuller wrote:
Because *implicit* permission isn't good enough. By default *nothing* is
allowed. So every right the authors grant you had better be written down
in a license accompanying the software, otherwise one of the authors (or
sometimes
Michael Meskes wrote:
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 04:07:31PM +, Raja R Harinath wrote:
I agree that by using XForms in development, and XForms *is* needed to
compile and run LyX, we have implicitly allowd all users to link Lyx
with XForms.
I don't see how it follows. we have
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Michael Meskes wrote:
How about this one?
I told him I would remove the first sentence but other than that it looks
okay to me.
looks good to me, with or without the first sentence.
it's true, anyway. the GPL is often a source of misunderstanding and
confusion.
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Matthias Ettrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12.10.98 12:54:20
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Thema:Re: copyright problem
If that is still ok for Debian, I could
looks good to me, with or without the first sentence.
For me too.
it's true, anyway. the GPL is often a source of misunderstanding and
confusion. witness KDE, for example.
Yes, your right. But I think this sentence doens´t fit well into a license
file.
if ettrich is willing to write
people to distribute LyX in both source and binary forms. This permission
certainly includes linking against GUI toolkits like XForms, Motif, GTK, Qt
or Win32.
`... and distributing the resulting binary.' should be added.
You can always link in the privacy of your home. What GPL
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 12:25:12PM +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
How can we be sure that LyX does not include things not written by them?
Wait a moment. Don't let this become ridiculous. How can we be sure that
Ulrich Depper didn't include non-GPL stuff in his glibc? You can ask this
ofr every
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Michael Meskes wrote:
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 12:25:12PM +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
How can we be sure that LyX does not include things not written by them?
Wait a moment. Don't let this become ridiculous. How can we be sure that
Ulrich Depper didn't include
Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I told him I would remove the first sentence but other than that it looks
okay to me.
Yeah.
With that first sentence in, I think he'd argue that he doesn't need
anyone's permission to apply it to third-party GPLed software: he's
declaring what the GPL
Would this be enough for LyX? I think so.
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To: lyx@via.ecp.fr
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: copyright problem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes)
Date: 11 Oct 1998 19:17:04 +0200
[...]
I agree that by using
On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Michael Meskes wrote:
Would this be enough for LyX? I think so.
[...]
I agree that by using XForms in development, and XForms *is* needed to
compile and run LyX, we have implicitly allowd all users to link Lyx
with XForms.
[...]
I don't think so. It is not enough
Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Would this be enough for LyX? I think so.
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To: lyx@via.ecp.fr
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: copyright problem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes)
Date: 11 Oct
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 04:07:31PM +, Raja R Harinath wrote:
I don't see how it follows. we have implicitly allowed all users to
link LyX with XForms does not imply we have implicitly allowed
(re)distribution of the resulting LyX binaries, which I guess is the
issue at hand.
Because
I recently (yesterday, in fact) discovered a wonderful Tcl/Tk-based irc client
for X called cIRCus. It is by far the best graphical irc client I've seen.
My first thought was, of course, to package it for Debian, but the copyright
is quite restrictive. There is no source, and it states that
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997 00:13:09 EDT Igor Grobman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I recently (yesterday, in fact) discovered a wonderful Tcl/Tk-based irc client
for X called cIRCus. It is by far the best graphical irc client I've seen.
My first thought was, of course, to package it for Debian, but
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