Re: turck-mmcache license violation?

2004-11-11 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:12:42 -0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One could claim that php4 is part of the operating system, just like > they do with OpenSSL. That is nuts! I agree with you that claiming PHP is part of the OS is a bit hard... But anyway, Debian cannot ever use the OS exception, sinc

Re: turck-mmcache license violation?

2004-11-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 08:12:42PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One could claim that php4 is part of the operating system, just like > they do with OpenSSL. That is nuts! The phrase "unless that component itself accompanies the executable" means that Debian can never make use of that exceptio

Bug#280803: libgcc1: contains non-free GNU FDL

2004-11-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Matthias Klose wrote: > > The copyright file includes a copy of the GNU Free Documentation > > License, which has been judged by debian-legal to be > > non-free. Please remove the non-free material from the package or > > move the package to non-free. > > I do not want to beli

Re: turck-mmcache license violation?

2004-11-11 Thread cascardo
One could claim that php4 is part of the operating system, just like they do with OpenSSL. That is nuts! Sorry for introducing a reason for a flame. I'd just like to say that I think the if one line is to be crossed, that should mean that we should ask for the author permission, which would make t

turck-mmcache license violation?

2004-11-11 Thread Andres Salomon
It would appear that turck-mmcache is covered under the GPL. However, it links against php4, whose license is incompatible w/ the GPL. Is there some sort of exception clause that was left out of the copyright file, or are we violating the turck-mmcache license?

Bug#280803: libgcc1: contains non-free GNU FDL

2004-11-11 Thread Matthias Klose
Brian M. Carlson writes: > Package: libgcc1 > Version: 1:4.0-0pre0 > Severity: serious > > The copyright file includes a copy of the GNU Free Documentation > License, which has been judged by debian-legal to be non-free. Please > remove the non-free material from the package or move the package to

Re: review of DK and IIM patent licenses

2004-11-11 Thread MJ Ray
Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This contaminates other software, by terminating for any patent action > > against Cisco about anything. It even seems to contaminate hardware! > Note that it only terminates the patent license, which just takes us >

Re: review of DK and IIM patent licenses

2004-11-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have not read the patents, so I have no idea what these apply to and I > suspect it's better that I shouldn't know. > > Daniel Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Here is the IIM license: >> http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/cisco-ipr-draft-fenton-identified-ma

Re: review of DK and IIM patent licenses

2004-11-11 Thread MJ Ray
I have not read the patents, so I have no idea what these apply to and I suspect it's better that I shouldn't know. Daniel Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is the IIM license: > http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/cisco-ipr-draft-fenton-identified-mail-00.txt This contaminates other software,