Re: License: Perl considered harmful [Was: Python license]

2005-12-16 Thread MJ Ray
Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] The problem is, as I said, the terms of the Python license are very specific to Python. Not in the way that, say, the LPPL is specific to LaTeX, but that the terms of the license specifically identify the PSF, and Python. It's like applying a BSD license and

Bioapi license DFSG free ?

2005-12-16 Thread Arnaud Fontaine
Hello, I would like to know if the license below is DFSG free, i have some doubt about that and i would like to know in order to do the ITP on bioapi framework. Please Cc me because i haven't subscribed to the list ;). The License : - BioAPI Reference Implementation IMPORTANT: READ BEFORE

Re: Please review: The OFL (Open Font License)

2005-12-16 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
Nathanael Nerode wrote: Important side issue: No modification of the license is permitted, only verbatim copy is allowed. Don't do this. Marking license texts as verbatim copy only is a bad habit and I encourage people not to. You want something more like the following: The OFL license

Re: Please review: The OFL (Open Font License)

2005-12-16 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
MJ Ray wrote: Nicolas Spalinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] All the details are available at: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL The page is not very accessible because you set color without a background-color (set both or preferably neither, please) and you seem to be using 8pt body text (ow). It's

Policy on code covered by patents but not compiled?

2005-12-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Consider the following situation: * Code (say MPEG encoder code) is considered to be covered by patents * Those patents are considered to be actively enforced * Code implementing an MPEG encoder is shipped in a source package * This code is not compiled or used, and the user is not encouraged to

Re: Policy on code covered by patents but not compiled?

2005-12-16 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On 12/16/05, Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider the following situation: * Code (say MPEG encoder code) is considered to be covered by patents * Those patents are considered to be actively enforced * Code implementing an MPEG encoder is shipped in a source package * This code

Re: Policy on code covered by patents but not compiled?

2005-12-16 Thread Catatonic Porpoise
Gregory Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many people can not legally use the patented techniques. By making it easier to use the formats which require patented implementation (for both those who can use it legally, and for those who wish to ignore the law) creates an environment where use of

Re: Bioapi license DFSG free ?

2005-12-16 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:31:05 +0100 Arnaud Fontaine wrote: Hello, I would like to know if the license below is DFSG free, i have some doubt about that and i would like to know in order to do the ITP on bioapi framework. What you posted is the 3-clause BSD license (just with the name of the

Re: Policy on code covered by patents but not compiled?

2005-12-16 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 05:29:24PM -0500, Catatonic Porpoise wrote: Please publish essays of this nature somewhere else. I subscribe to this list for the legal discussions, not for moral lectures; I prefer not to receive the latter in my mailbox. I will not comment on whether I agree with your

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2005-12-16 Thread Jody
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