Jonathan P Tomer writes:
> posit: if a work is a product of the us government, it is in the public
> domain.
Not true, but ok.
> thus, anybody can reuse and relicence it in any way one wishes.
No one can relicense anyone else's work, PD or not.
> for instance, you could grab any us government p
> It't not justifying, it's *specifying*. If it does not say I'm allowed
> to distribute the with-xforms binaries, I cannot do so.
>
> If it only said,
>
> "You can distribute binaries linked with xforms."
>
> I would be allowed to distribute said binaries without sources, which
> would open a
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 09:17:35PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
> > We can't KDE go into non-free, Qt is in there?
> > I've read all the debian-kde-stance pages but I still don't see why this is
> > so.
>
> Because it is illegal to distribute KDE.
>
> The KDE license is GPL. The GPL requires that a
From: Jonathan P Tomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> for instance, you could grab any us government produced software and gpl it
> (or whatever lese you like) for a debian package.
Yes. I guess you've discussed what I did with the U.S. map data.
> if i'm wrong here, and it has to stay in pd or some such,
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 08:18:30PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote:
> Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > You mean allow linking and explicitely allow distribution, right?
>
> Yes.
>
> > You don't mean invoking the major components bit do you?
>
> No, I think that is a clumsy solut
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You mean allow linking and explicitely allow distribution, right?
Yes.
> You don't mean invoking the major components bit do you?
No, I think that is a clumsy solution to the problem.
>"You may link this software with XForms (Copyright (c) by
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 2. Modified object or executable code must be accompanied by the
>modified source code and/or documentation clearly stating the
>modifications. Modified executables must be renamed to not
>conflict with the standard names.
> The last sen
Jonathan P Tomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >"You may link this software with XForms (Copyright (c) by
> > > T.C. Zhao and Mark Overmars). You are not required to include
> > > this paragraph in the license for derivatives of this
> > > software."
> > I think such an amendment sho
Henning Makholm wrote:
> Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The only thing I'd add to John's paragraph is:
>
> >"You may link this software with XForms (Copyright (c) by
> > T.C. Zhao and Mark Overmars). You are not required to include
> > this paragraph in the license
> > The only thing I'd add to John's paragraph is:
>
> >"You may link this software with XForms (Copyright (c) by
> > T.C. Zhao and Mark Overmars). You are not required to include
> > this paragraph in the license for derivatives of this
> > software."
>
> I think such an amendment sho
Konstantinos Margaritis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> On Sun, 06 Jun 1999, Raul Miller wrote:
> > Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > In the case of NASA, being US government, I think that license may be a
> > > poorly worded "this work is Public
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The only thing I'd add to John's paragraph is:
>"You may link this software with XForms (Copyright (c) by
> T.C. Zhao and Mark Overmars). You are not required to include
> this paragraph in the license for derivatives of this
> software."
hi,
here are a few more thoughts. i'd ask for the original japanese licences as
well but i'm afraid i'm not nearly fluent enough to be useful (yet ;p).
> Atsuhito> Unless you delete the necessary files or modify them you
> Atsuhito> can distribute and/or use freely.
>
> I'm not sure what
ok, here's a thought:
posit: if a work is a product of the us government, it is in the public
domain.
thus, anybody can reuse and relicence it in any way one wishes.
for instance, you could grab any us government produced software and gpl it
(or whatever lese you like) for a debian package.
if
I'm working on a library and I'm looking for an appropriate license. (If
this is too off-topic,
just tell me.)
I'm looking for a free license that
(a) will let people link it against any DFSG-free code,
(b) is generally like the GPL & LGPL,
(c) and will let me freely include GNAT-modified GPL and
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