Re: Source only opensource licence.

2003-12-05 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
"Franck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Hi, > >We are currently working on a web-developpement tool for a private > company. > >The people who fund the project are okay to give opensource a try, but > they insist on some restrictions. (for the business model to be > sucessful). > >Th

Re: Plugins, libraries, licenses and Debian

2003-12-05 Thread Måns Rullgård
Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> OK, say I use the X11 license. Now suppose someone installs a closed >> source plugin. Suppose it also happens that this same user has >> installed some GPL plugin. Both plugins would be allowed separately, >> right? When the user runs the program

Re: Plugins, libraries, licenses and Debian

2003-12-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 03:50:50AM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: > Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I am working on a piece of free software that makes extensive use of > >> plugins, i.e. shared objects dynamically loaded at runtime. Many of > >> these plugins are linked with third-

Re: Plugins, libraries, licenses and Debian

2003-12-05 Thread Måns Rullgård
Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I am working on a piece of free software that makes extensive use of >> plugins, i.e. shared objects dynamically loaded at runtime. Many of >> these plugins are linked with third-party libraries. The licenses of >> those libraries vary, including at l

Re: Plugins, libraries, licenses and Debian

2003-12-05 Thread Walter Landry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Måns Rullgård) wrote: > > I am working on a piece of free software that makes extensive use of > plugins, i.e. shared objects dynamically loaded at runtime. Many of > these plugins are linked with third-party libraries. The licenses of > those libraries vary, including at leas

Re: Do a Slis .deb package

2003-12-05 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It's all in French, which I don't speak a word of, but if "SLIS est > sous licence GPL" means that the code is licence, Oops: s/license,/licensed under the GPL,/ -- Henning Makholm"I have seen men with a *fraction* of

Re: Do a Slis .deb package

2003-12-05 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Frederic Ollivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The delopper want to translate on Debian. I'm not sure I can parse this sentence. Surely the developer is free to use Debian on his development system. (??) > http://slis.ac-grenoble.fr > This package can be approved ? It's all in French, which I

Do a Slis .deb package

2003-12-05 Thread Frederic Ollivier
Slis is a frontend to administ a proxy cache server. It was based at the origne on Linux RedHat, but when RedHat Inc. choose to pay upgrade. The delopper want to translate on Debian. Web site : http://slis.ac-grenoble.fr This package can be approved ? --

Plugins, libraries, licenses and Debian

2003-12-05 Thread Måns Rullgård
I am working on a piece of free software that makes extensive use of plugins, i.e. shared objects dynamically loaded at runtime. Many of these plugins are linked with third-party libraries. The licenses of those libraries vary, including at least GPL, LGPL and X11. Now I'm trying to work out wh

Re: Requirements for non-free?

2003-12-05 Thread Walter Landry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Küster) wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 01:56:34PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > >> But, most importantly, who is "The Debian Project", which would be > >> granted the permission, in this sense? Everybody who runs a server with

Re: Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r2 (II)

2003-12-05 Thread Frank Küster
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 05:39:02PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: >> >> In effect, the computer program itself (eg, the TrueType part is >> protected) but the output of the program is not. > > So it should be possible to reverse-engineer and reimplemen

Re: Requirements for non-free?

2003-12-05 Thread Frank Küster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 01:56:34PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> I guess that permission to distribute would have to include permission >> to distribute further modified versions, like security fixes, ASAP >