Problems with aspell-en license

2002-10-19 Thread Brian Nelson
I'm working on packaging the new upstream GNU/aspell, and I've discovered a problem with the (attached) license of the English dictionary. The license, which is a mishmash of mostly free licenses,is not DFSG free as I understand it due to the DEC Word list license (beginning on line 134). The

Re: [aspell-devel] Problems with aspell-en license

2002-10-19 Thread Kevin Atkinson
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Brian Nelson wrote: I'm working on packaging the new upstream GNU/aspell, and I've discovered a problem with the (attached) license of the English dictionary. The license, which is a mishmash of mostly free licenses,is not DFSG free as I understand it due to the DEC Word

Re: [aspell-devel] Problems with aspell-en license

2002-10-19 Thread Brian Nelson
Kevin Atkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Brian Nelson wrote: I'm working on packaging the new upstream GNU/aspell, and I've discovered a problem with the (attached) license of the English dictionary. The license, which is a mishmash of mostly free licenses,is not DFSG

Re: [aspell-devel] Problems with aspell-en license

2002-10-19 Thread Kevin Atkinson
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Brian Nelson wrote: Kevin Atkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Brian Nelson wrote: I'm working on packaging the new upstream GNU/aspell, and I've discovered a problem with the (attached) license of the English dictionary. The license, which is

Re: [aspell-devel] Problems with aspell-en license

2002-10-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 03:23:45PM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote: I am merely quoting the closest thing to a copyright notice for all of the wordlist as generally required by copyright law. RMS basically said the word list meets FSF definition of Free (which should in term meet Debian

Re: [aspell-devel] Problems with aspell-en license

2002-10-19 Thread Kevin Atkinson
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 03:23:45PM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote: I am merely quoting the closest thing to a copyright notice for all of the wordlist as generally required by copyright law. RMS basically said the word list meets FSF definition of

Yet another JDK1.1 llicence question

2002-10-19 Thread Stephen Zander
Please cc me as I'm not on this list... As the ftpmasters have finally gotten around to looking at the latest jdk1.1 packages (they sat in queue/new for over six months), the subject of java licensing has again arisen. Attached is the amended debian/copyright file I am proposing to put into the

NetBSD licensing, part deux

2002-10-19 Thread Joel Baker
Please see the latest message from RMS, to myself and the Debian-BSD list. (Ref: Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Resent-Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED], or http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2002/debian-bsd-200210/msg00044.html) It appears to be RMS's opinion that this falls under a section of the

Re: Yet another JDK1.1 llicence question

2002-10-19 Thread Richard Braakman
I assume this is the part from which you expect distributability: Blackdown Java-Linux Team Supplemental Terms The Blackdown Java Linux team (Blackdown), as a Sun JDK 1.1 source code licencess, asserts it's right to amend the terms of the Binary Code License Agreement (collectively the

Re: Yet another JDK1.1 llicence question

2002-10-19 Thread Stephen Zander
Richard == Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard First, I find this a curious phrasing. asserts it's Richard right? On what basis? Should we take this assertion at Richard face value? If this is a right that Sun granted, it Richard would be nice to say so

Re: [aspell-devel] Problems with aspell-en license

2002-10-19 Thread Brian Nelson
Kevin Atkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 03:23:45PM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote: I am merely quoting the closest thing to a copyright notice for all of the wordlist as generally required by copyright law. RMS basically

Re: Yet another JDK1.1 llicence question

2002-10-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 02:40:07AM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: I assume this is the part from which you expect distributability: Blackdown Java-Linux Team Supplemental Terms The Blackdown Java Linux team (Blackdown), as a Sun JDK 1.1 source code licencess, asserts it's right to amend