Re: mozilla thunderbird trademark restrictions / still dfsg free?

2005-01-06 Thread MJ Ray
Gervase Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MJ Ray wrote: > > Are you sure? The graphics seem to have the words "Firefox" in them, > > which doesn't seem a permitted use of the trademark to me. > The default build removes the trademarked logos (the fox-on-globe or the > bird-on-envelope) but not

Re: mozilla thunderbird trademark restrictions / still dfsg free?

2005-01-06 Thread MJ Ray
Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But we're also distributing files that the user can't modify without > renaming, so I'm not entirely sure what the issue is. If Mozilla's > /copyright/ license said "You may not modify this without renaming it, > unless you have a separate agreement with

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Poole
Josh Triplett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Poole wrote: > > Josh Triplett writes: > >>If the ICQ server were packaged in the Debian non-free section, would > >>you make ICQ clients Depends: or Recommends: on the ICQ server? If not, > >>then if the ICQ server were packaged, the ICQ client

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-06 Thread Raul Miller
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Josh Triplett wrote: > > If the firmware we have packaged in non-free comes standard on the > > device, then the driver does not need a copy of the firmware, so it does > > not have a dependency on it. On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:21:52PM -0800, Ken Arromdee wrote: > Hm? The d

Re: AROS License DFSG ok?

2005-01-06 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Josh Triplett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> (b) any software, hardware, or device, other than such >>> Participant's Contributor Version, directly or indirectly >>> infringes any patent, then any rights granted to You by such >>> Participant under Sections 2.1(b) and 2.2(b) are

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-06 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Josh Triplett wrote: > If the firmware we have packaged in non-free comes standard on the > device, then the driver does not need a copy of the firmware, so it does > not have a dependency on it. Hm? The driver does need a copy of the firmware. It needs a copy that is present

Re: Hypothetical situation to chew on

2005-01-06 Thread Michael K. Edwards
Andrew Suffield wrote (in response to me): > You imply that "protecting intangible assets" is an improvement, and > that this was not done before, but neither of those are particularly > accurate. No, I imply that an asset is a property right, and that the previous regimes didn't create property r

Re: Non-free files in source packages?

2005-01-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:10:18AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Lewis Jardine: > > > In the case of data tables, in many jurisdictions, a mere collection of > > facts is not copyrightable; the classic example is a telephone directory > > (everything in it is an uncreative fact; that there ar

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-06 Thread Josh Triplett
Michael Poole wrote: > Josh Triplett writes: >>If the ICQ server were packaged in the Debian non-free section, would >>you make ICQ clients Depends: or Recommends: on the ICQ server? If not, >>then if the ICQ server were packaged, the ICQ client would still be in >>main. Therefore, the ICQ client

Re: AROS License DFSG ok?

2005-01-06 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Gürkan Sengün <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Is the AROS license DFSG ok? > > http://www.aros.org/license.html In addition to the patent termination, I don't thinkt this is a free condition: | 3.2. Availability of Source Code. | Any Modification which You create or to which You contribute must b

Re: AROS License DFSG ok?

2005-01-06 Thread Josh Triplett
Michael Poole wrote: > Gürkan Sengün <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>Is the AROS license DFSG ok? >> >>http://www.aros.org/license.html > > > Likely problems: > > >> 8.2. If You initiate litigation by asserting a patent >> infringement claim (excluding declatory judgment actions) >

Re: Questions about legal theory behind (L)GPL

2005-01-06 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 05:19:04PM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > The only form in which the GPL can be read as requiring any conduct > from licensees (such as the provision of copies of source code on > demand and the extension of the GPL to the licensee's copyright in > derived works) is as a

Re: Questions about legal theory behind (L)GPL

2005-01-06 Thread Michael K. Edwards
The only form in which the GPL can be read as requiring any conduct from licensees (such as the provision of copies of source code on demand and the extension of the GPL to the licensee's copyright in derived works) is as an offer of (bilateral) contract, duly accepted by the licensee, in return fo

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-06 Thread Josh Triplett
Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 06, Josh Triplett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>An ICQ client wouldn't Depends: icq-server; it might Suggests: >>icq-server, but that's OK. A driver might at most Suggests: >>burned-in-firmware-for-reflashing, but it would Depends: or at a minimum >>Recommends: firmware

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Poole
Josh Triplett writes: > If the ICQ server were packaged in the Debian non-free section, would > you make ICQ clients Depends: or Recommends: on the ICQ server? If not, > then if the ICQ server were packaged, the ICQ client would still be in > main. Therefore, the ICQ client can be in main. A, e

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-06 Thread Josh Triplett
Michael Poole wrote: > Glenn Maynard writes: >>On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:42:50PM -0500, Michael Poole wrote: >>>Brian Thomas Sniffen writes: software which he could download... but not from Debian, since it's not Free and not packaged. >>> >>>Why do you insist on the "downloadable" part of

Re: Non-free files in source packages?

2005-01-06 Thread Simon Josefsson
Lewis Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the case of data tables, in many jurisdictions, a mere collection of > facts is not copyrightable; the classic example is a telephone directory > (everything in it is an uncreative fact; that there are thousands of > them, which may have taken a lo

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 06, Josh Triplett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An ICQ client wouldn't Depends: icq-server; it might Suggests: > icq-server, but that's OK. A driver might at most Suggests: > burned-in-firmware-for-reflashing, but it would Depends: or at a minimum > Recommends: firmware-loaded-by-driver. I

Re: AROS License DFSG ok?

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Poole
Florian Weimer writes: > * Michael Poole: > > [something close to the anti-patent clause from the MPL] > > > Some people believe that this kind of termination clause violates the > > DFSG. > > But this is not specific to the AROS License, it's inherited from the > MPL (although I haven't compar

Re: AROS License DFSG ok?

2005-01-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Michael Poole: [something close to the anti-patent clause from the MPL] > Some people believe that this kind of termination clause violates the > DFSG. But this is not specific to the AROS License, it's inherited from the MPL (although I haven't compared the licenses word-for-word).

Re: More mmcache concerns

2005-01-06 Thread Jonathan Oxer
Hi Florian, > How much code are we talking about? Perhaps a clean room > reimplementation is the cheapest solution. Unfortunately a non-trivial amount (about 15k lines), and not simple code either - it's pretty tightly written, and it requires an intimate knowledge of the internal workings of th

Re: AROS License DFSG ok?

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Poole
Gürkan Sengün <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is the AROS license DFSG ok? > > http://www.aros.org/license.html Likely problems: > 8.2. If You initiate litigation by asserting a patent > infringement claim (excluding declatory judgment actions) > against Initial Developer or a Cont

Re: Non-free files in source packages?

2005-01-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Lewis Jardine: > In the case of data tables, in many jurisdictions, a mere collection of > facts is not copyrightable; the classic example is a telephone directory > (everything in it is an uncreative fact; that there are thousands of > them, which may have taken a lot of effort to gather, is

Re: More mmcache concerns

2005-01-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Joel Aelwyn: > Or convince someone (quite possibly the origional author) that it is worth > their time to re-implement it. Doing work for hire means you don't own that > copy, but it is in no way a prohibition against you making another copy on > your own time, even if it were to look almost com

Re: Hypothetical situation to chew on

2005-01-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:14:41PM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:48:40 +, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:36:46PM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > > > The classical forms of intellectual property -- copyright, patent, > > >

Re: Hypothetical situation to chew on

2005-01-06 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:39:04 -0800, Josh Triplett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael K. Edwards wrote: [snip] > > Presumably this would result in a formula for copyright maintenance > > similar to that now in place for trademark maintenance. Personally, I > > would not like to see this happen. >

AROS License DFSG ok?

2005-01-06 Thread Gürkan Sengün
Is the AROS license DFSG ok? http://www.aros.org/license.html

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-06 Thread Josh Triplett
[Please keep either debian-legal or myself in the CC list; I'm not subscribed to debian-devel.] Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: >>> So would a web-based firmware loader, that never saved the firmware to >>> disk allow the drivers to be in main? >> >> Of course not. It's fe

Re: More mmcache concerns

2005-01-06 Thread Joel Aelwyn
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:14:45AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:57:12PM -0800, Elizabeth Fong wrote: > > Jonathan Oxer: > > > The big question though (and this is where legal advice may be required) > > > is what happens to copyright when the copyright owner ceases to

Re: More mmcache concerns

2005-01-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Elizabeth Fong: > So... I guess the question is, what _can_ we do? How much code are we talking about? Perhaps a clean room reimplementation is the cheapest solution.

Re: Hypothetical situation to chew on

2005-01-06 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:48:40 +, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:36:46PM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > > The classical forms of intellectual property -- copyright, patent, > > trademark, and trade secrets -- were developed to protect very > > different

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Poole
Glenn Maynard writes: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:42:50PM -0500, Michael Poole wrote: > > Brian Thomas Sniffen writes: > > > > > No. Firmware resident in RAM but put there by, say, the BIOS is > > > fine. We've elected not to ignore firmware which is to be handled and > > > installed by Debian

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-06 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:42:50PM -0500, Michael Poole wrote: > Brian Thomas Sniffen writes: > > > No. Firmware resident in RAM but put there by, say, the BIOS is > > fine. We've elected not to ignore firmware which is to be handled and > > installed by Debian software. You're having trouble m

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-06 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 01:54:19PM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: > aren't equivalent. The issue at hand is whether somebody might ever > download software from Debian and find it useless without additional > software which he could download... but not from Debian, since it's > not Free and no

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Poole
Brian Thomas Sniffen writes: > No. Firmware resident in RAM but put there by, say, the BIOS is > fine. We've elected not to ignore firmware which is to be handled and > installed by Debian software. You're having trouble making a coherent > position out of this only because you keep recasting i

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I download an ICQ client, there are lots of reasons I might find it > useful: I might not have anything to say, or I might have no network > connection, or I might have no friends to talk to. Debian is not > responsible for providing me with cr

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-06 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>So would a web-based firmware loader, that never saved the firmware to >>>disk allow the drivers to be in main? >> Of course not. It's fetching software, then using that software. >> ICQ software merely mentions messages, but doesn't use them. > >

Re: mozilla thunderbird trademark restrictions / still dfsg free?

2005-01-06 Thread Gervase Markham
MJ Ray wrote: Gervase Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - The default build for Firefox and Thunderbird uses non-trademarked logos Are you sure? The graphics seem to have the words "Firefox" in them, which doesn't seem a permitted use of the trademark to me. The default build removes the

Re: mozilla thunderbird trademark restrictions / still dfsg free?

2005-01-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I don't see why. We don't require that trademark licenses be granted to >> our users in any case - us having an extra permission above and beyond >> the freedoms we expect for our users doesn't seem to be a problem. >

Re: Non-free files in source packages?

2005-01-06 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 01:28:35 +0100 Simon Josefsson wrote: > I believe it would be useful for the Debian community to let the IETF > know about Debian's position on this. Preparing a statement and > posting it to the IETF IPR working group seem appropriate, and would > be appreciated. I agree: we

Re: mozilla thunderbird trademark restrictions / still dfsg free?

2005-01-06 Thread MJ Ray
Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Using MF's trademarks seems to require some sort of licence to > > be granted specifically to debian and not to its users. That > > seems not to follow DFSG 7 or 8, doesn't it? > I don't see why. We don't require tha

Re: mozilla thunderbird trademark restrictions / still dfsg free?

2005-01-06 Thread MJ Ray
Gervase Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - The default build for Firefox and Thunderbird uses non-trademarked >logos Are you sure? The graphics seem to have the words "Firefox" in them, which doesn't seem a permitted use of the trademark to me. > - The names can be found in files called b

Re: mozilla thunderbird trademark restrictions / still dfsg free?

2005-01-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using MF's trademarks seems to require some sort of licence to > be granted specifically to debian and not to its users. That > seems not to follow DFSG 7 or 8, doesn't it? I don't see why. We don't require that trademark licenses be granted to our users in any

Re: mozilla thunderbird trademark restrictions / still dfsg free?

2005-01-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005, Francesco Poli wrote: > On 06 Jan 2005 01:30:02 GMT MJ Ray wrote: > > Using MF's trademarks seems to require some sort of licence to > > be granted specifically to debian and not to its users. That > > seems not to follow DFSG 7 or 8, doesn't it? > > At present, it seems we re

Re: Hypothetical situation to chew on

2005-01-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:21:06PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:43:02 -0800 Josh Triplett wrote: > > > I'm not referring to those who sell proprietary licenses to a separate > > version of the software; I'm referring to those who use a copyleft > > license and sell excepti

Re: Hypothetical situation to chew on

2005-01-06 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:20:37 -0500 Glenn Maynard wrote: > The only case where what you say holds is where the licensee > purchasing the proprietary license would have otherwise used the GPL > license and released source. Which case--encouraging companies to GPL > source, or funding the further dev

Re: mozilla thunderbird trademark restrictions / still dfsg free?

2005-01-06 Thread Francesco Poli
On 06 Jan 2005 01:30:02 GMT MJ Ray wrote: > Using MF's trademarks seems to require some sort of licence to > be granted specifically to debian and not to its users. That > seems not to follow DFSG 7 or 8, doesn't it? > > Alternatively, if the names are changed to > firebird/tbird/mozzarella or an

Re: Hypothetical situation to chew on

2005-01-06 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:43:02 -0800 Josh Triplett wrote: > I'm not referring to those who sell proprietary licenses to a separate > version of the software; I'm referring to those who use a copyleft > license and sell exceptions for people who want to link their > proprietary software against that

Re: More mmcache concerns

2005-01-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:57:12PM -0800, Elizabeth Fong wrote: > Jonathan Oxer: > > The big question though (and this is where legal advice may be required) > > is what happens to copyright when the copyright owner ceases to exist? It is auctioned off by the liquidators, along with all other prop

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Re: Hypothetical situation to chew on

2005-01-06 Thread Batist Paklons
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:03:44 -0500, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let me clarify. :-) > > I have few complaints with the treatment of material for which the authors > *claim* copyright. > > My complaint is about material distributed willy-nilly by its authors with > *no* copyright

Re: mozilla thunderbird trademark restrictions / still dfsg free?

2005-01-06 Thread Gervase Markham
MJ Ray wrote: MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: By the way, the trademark FAQ doesn't tell me how to build without including the proprietary logos. Can anyone tell me how? Spotted another thread (mail is slow here this week) and replaced the branding dir. Rebuild underway. Still need to repla

Re: phpldapadmin 0.9.5, is it free?

2005-01-06 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:44:38AM +0200, Iassen Pramatarov wrote: > > > While phpLDAPadmin costs 49.95 for commercial download, we are providing > > > it for free to home users. If you purchase the commercial download, you > > > get the added benefit of support from the original developers. > Wh

Re: Hypothetical situation to chew on

2005-01-06 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:03:44PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Note that this email message is subject to copyright, and can't legally > be reprinted without permission (except for fair use, such as quotation > rights). Under pre-1986 US law, it would be public domain, because I > didn't affi

Re: phpldapadmin 0.9.5, is it free?

2005-01-06 Thread Iassen Pramatarov
On ср, 2005-01-05 at 23:25 +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Fabio Tranchitella ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050105 20:50]: > > Here there is the text grabbed from that page: > > > > """ > > While phpLDAPadmin costs 49.95 for commercial download, we are providing > > it for free to home users. If you purcha

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-06 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Josh Triplett wrote: I would like to suggest an additional option, which I think covers most cases quite well: If Debian were to package (a copy of) the non-free item in the non-free section, would the Free package express a Depends, Recommends, or Build-Depends on the non-free package? If so,

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-06 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Raul Miller wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 05:02:15PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: The social contract says "...but we will never make the system depend on an item of non-free software." not "but we will never make the system depend on an item of non-free software /which we must distribute

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-06 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: So would a web-based firmware loader, that never saved the firmware to disk allow the drivers to be in main? Of course not. It's fetching software, then using that software. ICQ software merely mentions messages, but doesn't use them. ICQ uses the messages as i