Re: request-tracker3: license shadiness

2004-07-05 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 09:24:50AM +0100, Andrew Stribblehill wrote: Regarding the concept of taking the copyright of code: it's what the FSF have been doing since 1992 with Emacs. The difference here is that if you feel strongly about it, you get to keep your copyright. The FSF asks

Re: xinetd license possibly violates DFSG #4

2004-07-05 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 07:12:51AM -0500, Andreas Metzler wrote: I do not consider this to go much further than that. The intention is imho the one DFSG4 tries to carter for. The author wants: a) derivatives being detectable as such. b) derivatives have to keep out of xinetd's namespace. He

Re: Copyright on 'non-creative' data?

2004-07-05 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
tom wrote: In UE we have a directive on database, and it says that there's not copyright on database but there's a new IP right called sui generis. The difference is that it covers less rights than copyright (remember in the european version e.g. droit d'auter) and for less time. The EU

Re: CC-based proposal (was FDL: no news?)

2004-07-05 Thread Evan Prodromou
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 19:08, MJ Ray wrote: Numerous people have tried many angles. More are welcome, as we clearly haven't found the correct approach yet. So, I'd like to write a draft summary for the 6 Creative Commons 2.0 licenses: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Four

Re: Copyright/License of Debian Constitution

2004-07-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Can you guys on d-l please comment. I think CCing Dwayne would be a suitable thing too. Thanks Zenaan On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 14:22, Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote: I'm not sure if this is the right list to ask on, but what's the copyright/license status of the Debian Constitution?

Re: Copyright/License of Debian Constitution

2004-07-05 Thread Josh Triplett
Zenaan Harkness wrote: On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 14:22, Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote: I'm not sure if this is the right list to ask on, but what's the copyright/license status of the Debian Constitution? http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution I'm heading up changes to the constitution of a

Re: Copyright/License of Debian Constitution (parts 2-3)

2004-07-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Here is the relevant replies on debian-user. On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 04:55, Travis Crump wrote: John Hasler wrote: Dwayne C. Litzenberger writes: I'm not sure if this is the right list to ask on, but what's the copyright/license status of the Debian Constitution?

Re: Copyright/License of Debian Constitution (parts 2-3)

2004-07-05 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 06:40:08AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: a) Go try and 'reword' a book and try to pass it off as your own. In a sense, this is what the GNU project is all about. Stealing from one source is plagiarism, stealing from many sources is research. Copyright is not

Re: Copyright on 'non-creative' data?

2004-07-05 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jacobo Tarrio: O Domingo, 4 de Xullo de 2004 ás 20:54:48 +0100, Andrew Suffield escribía: They may be covered by database property laws in some jurisdictions. ... which are not Copyright or Intellectual Property laws [...] Wrong for Germany. Our analogue of copyright law does cover

Re: Copyright on 'non-creative' data?

2004-07-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 05:35:12AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: * Jacobo Tarrio: O Domingo, 4 de Xullo de 2004 ?s 20:54:48 +0100, Andrew Suffield escrib?a: They may be covered by database property laws in some jurisdictions. ... which are not Copyright or Intellectual Property laws