Re: Legal status of short, perhaps uncopyrightable program (fwd)

2005-10-07 Thread Joe Smith
"Lionel Elie Mamane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 09:12:37AM +, MJ Ray wrote: Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are some murmurings on the Web (e.g., http://www.spatula.net/software/sex/ , http://packages.gentoo.org/eb

Re: Legal status of short, perhaps uncopyrightable program (fwd)

2005-10-07 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Asheesh Laroia wrote: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > >Many countries have copyright for databases; I think the whole EU has > >it. > > Would a "database" as small as this file be covered? I personally doubt > it, but I don't know how "database copyrights" are defined generall

"VIGRA Artistic License" changes

2005-10-07 Thread Florent Bayle
I've talked with the author of Vigra of the licencing problems (http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/09/msg00515.html), and it seems reading to change the licence. Here is the mail he sent to me : -- Message transmis -- Subject: Re: [VIGRA] Licencing problem between Hugin

Re: Legal status of short, perhaps uncopyrightable program (fwd)

2005-10-07 Thread MJ Ray
Lewis Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MJ Ray wrote: > > http://www.spatula.net/software/sex/ says "Original author unknown. > > Presumably this is public domain by now." Anyone know why they > > presume that? [...] > > Possibly they're thinking it was public-domained when the author posted >

Re: migration of wiki material: suggested licence and legal issues

2005-10-07 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 07:17:30PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > People who see that it is a problem have to take up the gauntlet; > Indeed, one could ask what the contributors to this thread have been > doing to speed this process along... I'm open for suggestions on what else I _can_ do to help.

Re: migration of wiki material: suggested licence and legal issues

2005-10-07 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 07:17:30PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > I'm not interested in stalling the migration process until the authors > for all of the pages in question have been contacted. Luckily, the work so far on the migration process has been on the conversion scripts. If the resolution of

Re: Legal status of short, perhaps uncopyrightable program (fwd)

2005-10-07 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 09:12:37AM +, MJ Ray wrote: > Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There are some murmurings on the Web (e.g., >> http://www.spatula.net/software/sex/ , >> http://packages.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?sex-1.0 ) from people who believe that >> it >> is BSD-licensed, b

Re: migration of wiki material: suggested licence and legal issues

2005-10-07 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 03:37:21PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sat, 01 Oct 2005, Francesco Poli wrote: > > * Consequently, its source code should be (easily) available for > > download > > It would actually just be better to expose the actual on disk storage > that moin-moin uses (whatever th

Re: Legal status of short, perhaps uncopyrightable program (fwd)

2005-10-07 Thread Lewis Jardine
MJ Ray wrote: Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are some murmurings on the Web (e.g., http://www.spatula.net/software/sex/ , http://packages.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?sex-1.0 ) from people who believe that it is BSD-licensed, but in truth I have been able to find no license. http://

Re: Legal status of short, perhaps uncopyrightable program (fwd)

2005-10-07 Thread MJ Ray
Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it's possible that the short strings in this program are > uncopyrightable since they're so short, and since there is no copyright for > databases the collection as a group isn't copyrightable either. (Like fortune > quotes.) But I'm not a law

Re: Legal status of short, perhaps uncopyrightable program (fwd)

2005-10-07 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 06:26:23PM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: I think it's possible that the short strings in this program are uncopyrightable since they're so short, and since there is no copyright for databases the collection as a group isn't

Re: Legal status of short, perhaps uncopyrightable program (fwd)

2005-10-07 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 06:26:23PM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > I think it's possible that the short strings in this program are > uncopyrightable since they're so short, and since there is no > copyright for databases the collection as a group isn't > copyrightable either. Many countries have