As I do not know, how the No Discrimination-parts of the DFSG are
interpreted, I wanted to ask about the Jabber Open Source Licence
(http://www.opensource.org/licenses/jabberpl.html), escpecially about
9b) of it:
Termination Upon Assertion of Patent Infringement. If you initiate
litigation by
Scripsit Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1) Source code for the entire package must be distributed with
any derived work incorporating ANY part of PRAG.
is a little vague though. Does he mean that I can not take a .c
file and place it in another work?
What he presumably means
Scripsit Bernhard R. Link [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Termination Upon Assertion of Patent Infringement. If you initiate
| litigation by asserting a patent infringement claim ... alleging
| that Licensed Product ... infringes any patent, then any and all
| rights ... shall terminate.
I think common
On Mar 29, Thomas Bushnell, BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems pretty clear to me that it is not DFSG-free. A DFSG program
needs to be usable on any operating system without discrimination, and
this license says you can use it on Linux without worrying, but if you
merely bundle it with,
Scripsit Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5. When this software or any work derived from this software is used in a
commercial product or bundled with a commercial product, the vendor must
also produce the program this software is derived from for
either the Linux or FreeBSD operating
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
But it might also be argued that making exceptions even for software
patenteers and child pornographers is a slippery slope which we should
stay away from.
What does discriminate mean, anyway? I think usually it means making
an arbitrary or unnecessary
Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mar 29, Thomas Bushnell, BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems pretty clear to me that it is not DFSG-free. A DFSG program
needs to be usable on any operating system without discrimination, and
this license says you can use it on Linux without
This copyright notice seems free enough, as I can see they
don't want any responsibility but do want credit for their work.
Fair enough I think. :-)
Is this ok for Debian?
/*
* Copyright 1992 Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, Indiana
* 47907. All rights reserved.
*
* Written by
Going thru the files I found more copyright notices, the files have different
copyrights (sorry for the wasted bandwith).
It seems as if the code has been modified/written both at Purdue and Ohio State.
Can this be accepted as free (for Debian)?
Copyright (c) 1990 The Ohio State University.
All
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:01:57PM +0200, Jörgen Hägg wrote:
Going thru the files I found more copyright notices, the files have different
copyrights (sorry for the wasted bandwith).
It seems as if the code has been modified/written both at Purdue and Ohio
State.
Can this be accepted as
Jörgen Hägg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Going thru the files I found more copyright notices, the files have different
copyrights (sorry for the wasted bandwith).
It seems as if the code has been modified/written both at Purdue and Ohio
State.
Can this be accepted as free (for Debian)?
This
Scripsit Jörgen Hägg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is this ok for Debian?
Yes.
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Scripsit Jörgen Hägg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can this be accepted as free (for Debian)?
Yes, it's basically a BSD licence. We usually tacitly ignore
the advertising clauses...
--
Henning Makholm Nobody is going to start shouting
about
Scripsit [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Unfortunately, it lacks permission to distribute modified copies
... and to alter it and distribute it freely?
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Henning Makholm Hele toget raslede imens Sjælland fór forbi.
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Scripsit [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Unfortunately, it lacks permission to distribute modified copies
... and to alter it and distribute it freely?
While all logic and reason might say that is good enough, it at least
one notable
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Still smarting from the University of Washington, eh? :-(
You betcha.
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Scripsit Jörgen Hägg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can this be accepted as free (for Debian)?
Yes, it's basically a BSD licence. We usually tacitly ignore
the advertising clauses...
The advertising clause is usually thought not to be enforceable in the
I assume if these copyrights appear in the same source file, then
they must all be followed?
Haven't quite understod the importance of the date. These
copyrights (and there are actually a few more without explicit
copyright which I'm trying to locate) have
different dates.
How does the date
Joergen Haegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I assume if these copyrights appear in the same source file, then
they must all be followed?
Haven't quite understod the importance of the date. These
copyrights (and there are actually a few more without explicit
copyright which I'm trying to
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 08:20:16PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
The date is irrelevant. It just defines when the copyright expires.
Well, except in the United States, where copyrights never expire. :-P
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