Re: LGPL module linked with a GPL lib

2005-07-25 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, I agree with most of what you said, except I'd like clarification on this part: On Sun, Jul 24, 2005, Jeff Licquia wrote: The copyright of the rest of GStreamer depends on how it's distributed. In Debian, it's clear that GStreamer is distributed with MAD support, which makes its

Re: Re: A question about converting code to another programming language

2005-07-25 Thread Svante Signell
On Saturday, 23 Jul 2005 10:28:05 -7.00, Sean Kellogg wrote: On Saturday 23 July 2005 02:40 am, Arnoud Engelfriet wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few questions about software developement. One of them is whether a program written in e.g. Fortran by me or somebody else (who

[Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] Debian with OpenSolaris: a broken dream]

2005-07-25 Thread Alvaro Lopez Ortega
Hi all, Some days ago I asked about the viability the idea of creating a new architecture of Debian using the OpenSolaris stack. I got a reply complaining and pointing out some problems about the CDDL license, which I understood like a CDDL rejection from Debian. Now, I have got this

Re: A question about converting code to another programming langu age

2005-07-25 Thread Humberto Massa Guimarães
Agreed, and in the vast majority of the cases the translation is a creative work. A babelfish translation would be a literal translation. an f2c translation is a literal (automatic) translation, so it's not a creative work. The copyrights of the original work apply to the translated work

Re: LGPL module linked with a GPL lib

2005-07-25 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 11:59 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: GStreamer's build process builds separate binaries for the various plugins, these are then dlopened when requested. I would personnally think that installing only Debian's GStreamer packages that are linked to LGPL libraries doesn't

Re: libdts patent issue?

2005-07-25 Thread Diego Biurrun
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 01:25:27PM -0700, Michael K. Edwards wrote: On 7/16/05, Diego Biurrun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please remember that this is my answer to your question of what _I_ would do, I didn't say what Debian should do. [...} But you're telling me you won't at least call

Re: libdts patent issue?

2005-07-25 Thread Diego Biurrun
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 05:54:40PM -0700, Michael K. Edwards wrote: Do you really think it's fair to characterize as pro-patenters people who are simply pointing out: the absence of a public policy rationale for denying the same sort of encouragement to applied researchers (and their

Re: EUPL draft

2005-07-25 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In the countries where moral rights apply, the Licensor waives his right to exercise his moral right to the extent allowed by law in order to make effective the licence of the economic rights here above listed. This seems to

Re: EUPL draft

2005-07-25 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 22:11:35 +0100 Anthony W. Youngman wrote: Actually, I didn't read it that way at all ... if moral rights get in the way of this licence, then this licence takes precedence. AFAIK, this is impossible at the moment. Since moral rights are inalienable, it is my understanding