Re: Origins of debian swirl

2005-08-05 Thread Alexis . Papadopoulos
The possible Toy Story connection is mearly an interesting coincedence. The current logo was decided by vote. The releases being named after Toy Story characters is offically approved by Pixar. (The first release of Debian was made while a Pixar employee was head of the project. The Debian

Re: Re: query from Georg Greve of GNU about Debian's opinion of the FDL

2005-08-05 Thread Torok Edwin
br Your analysis ignores the fact that the GNU FDL does not permit br Invariant Sections to be omitted entirely from the work when it br is redistributed. If the GNU FDL did that, it would take a giant br step towards DFSG-freeness. Interpretation B -- which you probably meant -- is

Votre commande Eurorest a été envoyé

2005-08-05 Thread Bureau d'Information Eurorest
Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer que votre commande Eurorest contenant : 1. Un chèque hôtelier international Eurorest - 1 exempl. 2. Un réglement du système Eurorest -1 exempl. vient de vous être envoyée à l'adresse: Leemans Serge 14 rue du bac 69600 Oullins France Vous recevrez votre

Re: FAIwiki Copyrights

2005-08-05 Thread Geert Stappers
Carbon Copy to debian-legal for their advice Please Carbon-Copy both mailinglists when doing a follow-up. On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 02:28:15PM +0200, Henning Sprang wrote: Hi, As Holger pointed out to me, it could prove very important, that we define a clear copyright for the contents of the

Re: FAIwiki Copyrights

2005-08-05 Thread Humberto Massa Guimarães
IANAL AFAIK there are about five versions of the Creative Commons License. He was talking about the attribution license... Some of them are very restricting. e.g. don't modify my beautiful painting. But a wiki is about allow others to modify ( improve it ) Question to [EMAIL

Re: FAIwiki Copyrights

2005-08-05 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi Geert, On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 16:24 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: [...] As Holger pointed out it could be very complicated to even change the copyright after people put even a bit of content in, I put a copy of as well as a link to the creative commons 2.5 attribution license in the

Re: FAIwiki Copyrights

2005-08-05 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 05:15:54PM +0200, Henning Sprang wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 16:24 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: snip/ The wiki is at http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de IANAL AFAIK there are about five versions of the Creative Commons License. Some of them are very

Re: FAIwiki Copyrights

2005-08-05 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi debian-legal, hi fai :-) On Friday 05 August 2005 17:29, Geert Stappers wrote: | Under the following conditions: | by | Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the | author or licensor. Sounds reasonable to me. unfortunatly not be me: i hereby request you to

Re: FAIwiki Copyrights

2005-08-05 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 17:29:20 +0200 Geert Stappers wrote: On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 05:15:54PM +0200, Henning Sprang wrote: [...] creative commons attribution 2.5 is one of these, that one that allows absolute freedom apart from the original author must be mentioned. Sorry for not posting a

Re: Re: BitTorrent Open Source License (Proposed Changes)

2005-08-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Michael K. Edwards wrote: a self-selected crew of ideologues with brazen contempt for real-world law and no fiduciary relationship to anyone is not too swift -- whether or not they have law degrees (or university chairs in law and legal history). Not all debian-legal participants deserve to be

Re: Origins of debian swirl / does Debian want to keep its trademark?

2005-08-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Henning Makholm wrote: On the other hand, it is difficult to imagine that the Elektrostore swirl is independently created starting from a straight brush stroke. http://henning.makholm.net/debian/swirls.xcf is the logo bar from www.elektrostore.se, with a genuine Debian swirl in another layer -

Re: FAIwiki Copyrights

2005-08-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Francesco Poli wrote: Version 2.5 licenses feature *some* little improvements, but they do not solve, AFAICT, all the issues that were found out in 2.0 ones. However, the problem is well in hand. Debian is working with the CC people on a draft new version (3.0?) and it appears that there

Re: FAIwiki Copyrights

2005-08-05 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Friday 05 August 2005 07:24 am, Geert Stappers wrote: Question to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Which license (and which version of it) is adviced for a wiki in the spirit of DFSG? Obviously these fine folks have decided to seek a license which is DFSG, but it begs the questions, is a DFSG license