Re: licence of LDP

1999-04-13 Thread Henning Makholm
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It prohibits derivatives and then goes on to say that you may publish > partial copies. The trouble is, as far as copyright is concerned, the only > part of a derivative that matters is the partial copy it contains. However, as far as contract law is con

Re: licence of LDP

1999-04-13 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > The _Linux Programmers Guide_ is non-free because its license contains > this: "If you make money with it the authors want a share." Jonathan P Tomer writes: > i want a pony. I have several for sale. What did you have in mind? > that doesn't seem very binding to me. It could mean "I

Re: licence of LDP

1999-04-13 Thread Jonathan P Tomer
John Hasler wrote: > Andrea Fanfani writes: > > Now I have to package the other guides (user guide, network guide, kernel > > guide etc. etc.). this books are under the licence of ldp... and I need a > > definitive opinion: the licence of linux documentation project is or not > > DFSG compliant ? >

[talon@talon.ddns.org: Re: Upstream Email]

1999-04-13 Thread Brian Ristuccia
- Forwarded message from "Brian E. Ermovick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 01:47:49 -0500 From: "Brian E. Ermovick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Brian Ristuccia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Upstream Email Hrmm -- I'm not about to subscribe to -devel and all that just cause t

Re: licence of LDP

1999-04-13 Thread John Hasler
Andrea Fanfani writes: > Now I have to package the other guides (user guide, network guide, kernel > guide etc. etc.). this books are under the licence of ldp... and I need a > definitive opinion: the licence of linux documentation project is or not > DFSG compliant ? The _Linux Programmers Guide_

Re: Is this license within the DSFG?

1999-04-13 Thread John Hasler
> Right, but there's no real difference between: > 1- No charge, other than an "at-cost" distribution fee > 2- You may not charge a fee for this Package itself. > You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of > this Package. >From the DFSG: The license of a Debian c

Re: Is this license within the DSFG?

1999-04-13 Thread John Hasler
Darren O. Benham writes: > ...basicly, the license authors put in a phrase saying don't charge but > we're not going to check up on you so you can really charge whatever you > can get away with as long as you say it's for "distribution fees". You need not even say that. You can put an Artisitic l

Re: network administrator guide

1999-04-13 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Hello Andrea, I wondered why these great docs weren't packaged. They were even in Slackware years ago when I used that! So I decided to package it. I looked at it and decided that HTML would be best, but couldn't find the tools to build them. I email the author (see below) but never got a rep

RE: Bug#35980: OmniORB package missing Sun License and should be c onsidered non-free

1999-04-13 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, On 12 Apr, Brent Fulgham wrote: > I believe that the Flick IDL compiler (GPL libraries, BSD Runtimes/header > files) may produce compatible IDL. I am researching that now that the > license issue has been brought to my attention. Ah yes! Thanks for bringing up Flick. I believe Flick als

network administrator guide

1999-04-13 Thread Andrea Fanfani
non free I suppose :-) Regards Andrea Fanfani -- Andrea Fanfani [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] COPYING CONDITIONS

licence of LDP

1999-04-13 Thread Andrea Fanfani
Hi all, i'm working for the package of LDP linux documentation project. I have package: 1)linux installation and getting started guide (3.2) that is under gpl, 2) italian translation of system admin guide (author lars wirzenius - gpl) 3) linux modules programming guide (under gpl) these three

RE: Bug#35980: OmniORB package missing Sun License and should be considered non-free

1999-04-13 Thread Brent Fulgham
> Unless there is an alternative IDL compiler that allows people to > put together applications for omniorb, I think omniorb and omniorb-doc > should be in contrib. > I believe that the Flick IDL compiler (GPL libraries, BSD Runtimes/header files) may produce compatible IDL. I am researching that

Re: Bug#35980: OmniORB package missing Sun License and should be co nsidered non-free

1999-04-13 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, On 12 Apr, Raul Miller wrote: > Brent Fulgham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Only omniorb-devel has the IDL compiler in it. Consequently, when the > > archive has been properly configured by the maintainer, I will upload -5 > > with revised license info. omniorb-devel will go to non-free

Re: Bug#35980: OmniORB package missing Sun License and should be considered non-free

1999-04-13 Thread Raul Miller
Brent Fulgham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please note that omniORB currently consists of 3 packages: > omniorb > omniorb-devel > omniorb-doc. > > This is as of 2.7.1-4, which should be landing in "unstable" as soon as the > archive maintainer adds the new splits to the override file. > > Only