Re: QPL: non-free?

2002-08-20 Thread Joe Drew
On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 20:12, Branden Robinson wrote: > IMO, it is against the spirit of Free Software to require the assignment > of your intellectual property rights in anything for the freedom to > modify someone else's intellectual property. [...] > I don't think we would hold (3)b as DFSG-fre

[Fwd: Re: font licensing]

2002-08-20 Thread Michael Cardenas
Hello. I've contacted a number of font authors about licensing their truetype fonts under free licenses and a number of them have responded positively. I've been asking authors who are willing, to look at the gpl, mit, and artistic licenses and select the one they like the best. As I'm sure wil

Re: aspell-nl license

2002-08-20 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:39:29PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Regardless, arguing that it can be difficult to detect or prove > copying is a totally separate issue from whether copyright law > prohibits the copying in question. No, but comparison of two works is an indispensible test for

QPL: non-free?

2002-08-20 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 04:43:20AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Any references? Google for 'zend "Branden Robinson"' can't find anything > other than the message I'm replying to. Hmm, must have been IRC. > Zend appears to be distributed under different licenses. > > http://www.zend.com/li

Re: DFSG 4

2002-08-20 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
> I long ago expressed my opinion that Zend is not Free, Any references? Google for 'zend "Branden Robinson"' can't find anything other than the message I'm replying to. Zend appears to be distributed under different licenses. http://www.zend.com/license/ZendLicense/ has: All advertising

Re: aspell-nl license

2002-08-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In practice, you could probably take the union of several non-free > word lists, intersect that with the union of some non-free text > corpora, then randomly delete a few words from the result and maybe > add a few words if you can think of any to

Re: aspell-nl license

2002-08-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, in the case of word lists, it may be especially difficult to > discern an independent creation from a modified work that has been > stripped of its original copyright notice. The more general-purpose the > word list -- as is frequently the case

Re: aspell-nl license

2002-08-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am curious because traditionally, copyright has been grounded on the > degree of originality in a work, not the quantity of labor that went > into producing it. Indeed, but if there is any original content at all, it can be copyrighted. If there w