Re: GPL/LGPL confusion

2001-07-03 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:20:35PM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote: [one dictionary definition deleted] A license is a grant of permission from whoever's authorized to grant that permission. I know license is a word in the dictionary. And, in particular, it has the right meaning for what

Re: Java, Python and GPL

2001-07-03 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
NB: I'm not a lawyer, so don't take anything I write too seriously. Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi; me again. Question this time regards packaging Jython (www.jython.org), a pure Java implementation of python. Jython is currently subject to a DFSG-compilant but possibly GPL-incompatible

Re: GPL/LGPL confusion

2001-07-03 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:38:21PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Alice wrote foo.c, licensed under the GNU X11 license. I've never seen a GNU X11 license, nor is one listed at http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/license-list.html. Bob wrote bar.c, licensed under the GNU GPL. Carol writes baz.c, and

bug #96601: system copy of GPL

2001-07-03 Thread Neil Conway
Hi, Could someone from debian-legal take a look at bug 96601? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=96601repeatmerged=yes (I'd reproduce it here but it may change between now and when someone reads this message). Basically, the author is objecting to the Debian policy of

Re: bug #96601: system copy of GPL

2001-07-03 Thread Joey Hess
Neil Conway wrote: Basically, the author is objecting to the Debian policy of referring to the system-wide copy of the GPL; he is arguing that a copy of the GPL should be included with his package, which is GPL'd. He makes some pretty good points, but Debian policy disagrees with him. RMS has