Re: Perl module licensing, the next step

2003-02-11 Thread Sam Hartman
Steve == Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 06:39:13PM -0600, Ardo van Steve Rangelrooij wrote: Glenn Maynard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 04:25:26PM -0600, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: I've been contacted by Ann

Re: Perl module licensing, the next step

2003-02-11 Thread James Troup
Sam Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can always introduce a GR. This is fucking ridiculous; I've already explained twice what Ardo needs to do to get his packages past us and that's simply to comply with policy. I've already explained twice that the problems with the equivocal (at best)

Re: Yet another bunch of licences

2003-02-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 06:12:21PM -0500, David Turner wrote: The FSF has been working with the Real people on the license. It's a slow process, but the dialog is ongoing and productive. They have a strong interest in making the license into a GPL-compatible Free Software license. Wow,

Re: Yet another bunch of licences

2003-02-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:16:44PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: The impression I got from reading the site was that they intended them as general-purpose licenses for use by anyone who's turned off by legal minutiae. Perhaps it goes without saying that as a denizen of debian-legal, I consider

Re: Yet another bunch of licences

2003-02-11 Thread Juhapekka Tolvanen
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, +18:05:02 EET (UTC +0200), Lawrence Lessig [EMAIL PROTECTED] pressed some keys: On 2/10/03 3:38 PM, Juhapekka Tolvanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it would be really irritating situation, if somebody creates nice software documentation that is meant to be free, and

Re: Yet another bunch of licences

2003-02-11 Thread Richard Stallman
But Helix DNA can handle other CODECs, too. Even Ogg Vorbis-support is under development. If problems of RPSL will be rectified, even without Real*-CODECs Helix DNA might be both free and useful software. I guess so...but are we really able to do anything with it that we can't do

OpenSSH minor licensing bug

2003-02-11 Thread David Turner
I downloaded OpenSSH from: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-3.5p1.tar.gz It has the following copyright notice for crc32.c. * COPYRIGHT (C) 1986 Gary S. Brown. You may use this program, or * code or tables extracted from it, as desired without

Re: OpenSSH minor licensing bug

2003-02-11 Thread Theo de Raadt
We'll get right on this. You know we consider this serious shit. Forwarded: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 20:53:27 -0700 Forwarded: openssh Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-Date: Tue Feb 11 16:45:18 2003 Received: from openbsd.cs.colorado.edu (openbsd.cs.colorado.edu [128.138.192.83])