Re: EDICT, GPL

2002-04-24 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 07:55:11PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: (CC to d-legal; it's related, at least due to edict-el, and they're a lot better at this topic than I am.) It's much easier if you provide some context when you CC like this. Does this prevent plain GPL software from using the

Re: EDICT, GPL

2002-04-24 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 01:20:28AM -0500, David Starner wrote: It's much easier if you provide some context when you CC like this. I forgot to link the license: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/groups/edrdg/newlic.html (or in the non-free package edict, I assume.) No. Look, for example, at

Re: EDICT, GPL

2002-04-24 Thread Jim Breen
[Glenn Maynard (EDICT, GPL) writes:] Jim Breen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [This was on the sci.lang.japan newsgroup, and concerned some shareware MacOSX software that used the EDICT/KANJDIC/etc. Japanese dictionary files I have compiled.] Originally you couldn't

Re: EDICT, GPL

2002-04-24 Thread Jim Breen
[Glenn Maynard (Re: EDICT, GPL) writes:] On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 01:20:28AM -0500, David Starner wrote: What exactly was the question here? (c, i) Permission is granted: ... to use these files as part of software which is distributed free-of-charge ... This is quoting from the licence

Mplayer again.

2002-04-24 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Hello, I was just about to send packages for uploading, when one more issue about mplayer's sources creeped up, one file seems to bee a bit controversial on licence side ( divx_vbr.c, included later in this mail). Since then, I've located way around it: Michael Niedermayer implemented a

Re: EDICT, GPL

2002-04-24 Thread Jeff Licquia
Jim Breen wrote in two separate messages: What's necessary to allow a program to use the EDICT? Basically the program either must not be sold, or if it is, it gets specific permission in return for a licence fee. This indicates that edict should either be in non-free or not distributed at

Re: Mplayer again.

2002-04-24 Thread Walter Landry
Dariush Pietrzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was just about to send packages for uploading, when one more issue about mplayer's sources creeped up, one file seems to bee a bit controversial on licence side ( divx_vbr.c, included later in this mail). Since then, I've located way

Re: EDICT, GPL

2002-04-24 Thread David Starner
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:05:01AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: Did it [Quake] actually do this? It had distribution restrictions, of course (which could bump the game itself in contrib, lacking any free datasets), but are there also restrictions on what kinds of programs can use the data, as

Re: [cfi-en] Printing restriction -- should move to non-free ?

2002-04-24 Thread Jakob Bohm
Oops, I sent this directly to Mr. Hedin, posting to list now. On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:27:04PM +0200, Mikael Hedin wrote: Mail Delivery System writes: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or

Non-US definition

2002-04-24 Thread Matt Kraai
Howdy, The package information page[1] contains the following description of the Non-US section: Non-US/Main and Non-US/Non-Free These packages cannot be exported from the USA, they are mostly encryption software packages, or software that is encumbered by patent issues. Most of them are

Re: EDICT, GPL

2002-04-24 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 06:39:05PM +1000, Jim Breen wrote: I've seen that comment which Glenn Rosenthal added on the JFC page after he quotes the GPL text. He actually says .. without the explicit permission of the respective copyright holder(s). That's implicit, anyway. (Copyright holders

Re: EDICT, GPL

2002-04-24 Thread Jim Breen
[Glenn Maynard (Re: EDICT, GPL) writes:] [Background: SKIP (System of Kanji Indexing by Patterns) is Jack Halpern's indexing system used in both his kanji dictionaries.] A quick question about SKIP data in the kanjidic: The license page says both that you have permission to include it, and