Re: MySQL only useable for GPL clients?

2005-10-11 Thread Joe Smith
"Måns Rullgård" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Martin Koegler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The newer MySQL client libraries are GPL (with the FLOSS exception), older versions were LGPL. At http://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/licensing-notice.html MySQL has put a

Re: MySQL only useable for GPL clients?

2005-10-11 Thread Måns Rullgård
Martin Koegler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The newer MySQL client libraries are GPL (with the FLOSS exception), > older versions were LGPL. > > At http://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/licensing-notice.html > MySQL has put a descrption of their network protocol, where they > force programs using

Re: MySQL only useable for GPL clients?

2005-10-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 08:01:40PM +0200, Martin Koegler wrote: > The newer MySQL client libraries are GPL (with the FLOSS exception), > older versions were LGPL. So, if you base your non GPL program on the older version, you are in the clear. Right? :) Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: MySQL only useable for GPL clients?

2005-10-11 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Martin Koegler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At http://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/licensing-notice.html > MySQL has put a descrption of their network protocol, where they > force programs using this protocol to be GPL: >>The MySQL Protocol is proprietary. >> >>The MySQL Protocol is part of t

MySQL only useable for GPL clients?

2005-10-11 Thread Martin Koegler
The newer MySQL client libraries are GPL (with the FLOSS exception), older versions were LGPL. At http://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/licensing-notice.html MySQL has put a descrption of their network protocol, where they force programs using this protocol to be GPL: >The MySQL Protocol is propr

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

2005-10-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On 10/7/05, Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A multi-licence wiki would be both detrimental from the perspective of > using it (stuff from one page couldn't necessarily be moved into > another, a dump of all the data would have to be divided up by-licence > before use) but I think also un-m

Re: Mozilla can't be GPL? (was: pkcs#11 license)

2005-10-11 Thread Gervase Markham
Lewis Jardine wrote: Ludovic Rousseau wrote: It seams the only human possible solution is to ask RSA to change their licence. I guess the Mozilla foundation could help if they care about licencing issues. Any idea of how we should contact Mozilla and RSA? I am really _not_ a diplomatic guy :-)

Re: SELinux patent time bomb?

2005-10-11 Thread Mahesh Pai
Anyway, does http://www.securecomputing.com/pdf/Statement_of_Assurance.pdf solve the concerns? On 10/11/05, Mahesh Pai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/11/05, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > That's not what /usr/share/doc/libselinux/copyright says on my system.

Re: Mozilla can't be GPL? (was: pkcs#11 license)

2005-10-11 Thread Lewis Jardine
Ludovic Rousseau wrote: It seams the only human possible solution is to ask RSA to change their licence. I guess the Mozilla foundation could help if they care about licencing issues. Any idea of how we should contact Mozilla and RSA? I am really _not_ a diplomatic guy :-) I'd expect Mozilla

Re: SELinux patent time bomb?

2005-10-11 Thread Mahesh Pai
On 10/11/05, Steve Langasek wrote: > That's not what /usr/share/doc/libselinux/copyright says on my system. 1. You mean the ``in public domain'' part? 2. Is libselinux the package we are discussing? >From http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/contrib.cfm Secure Computing Corporation (SCC) Secure Co

Re: Mozilla can't be GPL? (was: pkcs#11 license)

2005-10-11 Thread Ludovic Rousseau
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought the API reference was the PDF from > http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/pkcs/pkcs-11/ > which has a slightly different licence and wouldn't be copied > wholesale anyway, just the few names for interfacing. I also checked the licence of the PDF file and

Re: SELinux patent time bomb?

2005-10-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 03:32:57PM +0530, Mahesh Pai wrote: > On 10/11/05, Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > See http://lwn.net/Articles/2376/ . > > According to LWN (and other websites which have taken LWN as a > > source), there may be a patent-time bomb affecting SELinux: Secure

Re: SELinux patent time bomb?

2005-10-11 Thread Mahesh Pai
On 10/11/05, Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See http://lwn.net/Articles/2376/ . > > According to LWN (and other websites which have taken LWN as a > source), there may be a patent-time bomb affecting SELinux: Secure > Computing Corporation, who wrote a significant part of SELinux,