Re: Yet another JDK1.1 llicence question

2002-10-20 Thread Stephen Zander
Steve == Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve It's also grammatically incorrect, and should say asserts Steve its right. Let's not have Sun come after us all on a Steve technicality, please. :) You know, I even left out the apostrophe at first then decided it looked

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

2002-10-20 Thread John Galt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

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

2002-10-20 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 01:30:04AM -0600, John Galt wrote: Actually it isn't a granting of right, but a Testimonial that those rights exist. It means that you have recourse if sued to go after the one making the Testimony for your costs. In Debian, a Testimony that rights exist has

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

2002-10-20 Thread John Galt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 01:30:04AM -0600, John Galt wrote: Actually it isn't a granting of right, but a Testimonial that those rights exist. It means that you have recourse if sued to go after the one

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

2002-10-20 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 01:52:18AM -0600, John Galt wrote: No, it's legal boilerplate. You can't testify to things that AREN'T to the best of your knowlege. At worst it's redundant. Okay. Actually it isn't a granting of right, but a Testimonial that those rights exist. It means that

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

2002-10-20 Thread Kevin Atkinson
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 01:52:18AM -0600, John Galt wrote: No, it's legal boilerplate. You can't testify to things that AREN'T to the best of your knowlege. At worst it's redundant. Okay. Actually it isn't a granting of right, but a

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

2002-10-20 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 04:43:19AM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote: Could you be more specific? I am not sure what you are asking. Okay, I read a bit further: it's a third party saying this. In any case, it doesn't seem to matter; I doubt a testimony that it's free for non-commercial use helps

Re: Yet another JDK1.1 llicence question

2002-10-20 Thread Richard Braakman
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 05:17:11PM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote: [...] provided that: (i) the Linux Ports of the JDK is not integrated, bundled, combined or associated in any way with a product, This still holds, right? I would certainly say that the non-free archive is associated

Re: Yet another JDK1.1 llicence question

2002-10-20 Thread Stephen Zander
Richard == Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 05:17:11PM -0700, Stephen Zander Richard wrote: [...] provided that: (i) the Linux Ports of the JDK is not integrated, bundled, combined or associated in any way with a product,