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

2005-12-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Nicolas Spalinger wrote: >Could you elaborate a bit on why you think the "verbatim copy only" is >problematic? It renders the license text non-free. The classic use case is the following: If at some point new people at SIL want to make a revised version of the license, it will be technically ill

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

2005-12-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Gregory Maxwell wrote: >If the world's largest online encyclopedia can manage using only free >codecs for its media >(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_help), then you can too. Um, you didn't actually read my message, did you? Since your reply was totally orthogonal to my question. I d

Re: pymedia DFSG compliant ?

2005-12-17 Thread Josh Triplett
Arnaud Fontaine wrote: > Pymedia can also use mp3lame or libfaad2, but it is optional, however > could pymedia be package with these features ? If you can build the package in such a way that it makes use of these libraries if they are available on the user's system, without actually needing the l

Re: Bioapi license DFSG free ?

2005-12-17 Thread Josh Triplett
Arnaud Fontaine wrote: > With this kind of license, all the GPL'ed software that using this API > (for instance pam-bioapi which is using bioapi) should have : > > "Specific permission is granted for the GPLed code in this distribition > to be linked to BioAPI without invoking GPL clause 2(b)." >

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Re: Bioapi license DFSG free ?

2005-12-17 Thread Arnaud Fontaine
Hello, With this kind of license, all the GPL'ed software that using this API (for instance pam-bioapi which is using bioapi) should have : "Specific permission is granted for the GPLed code in this distribition to be linked to BioAPI without invoking GPL clause 2(b)." in the copyright file in o

Re: Bioapi license DFSG free ?

2005-12-17 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:40:11 +0100 Arnaud Fontaine wrote: [...] > Actually, could be possible to add this package to main ? If * the package is entirely released solely under the license you posted * the package's source code is available * there are no other legal issues (such as actively en

Re: Bioapi license DFSG free ?

2005-12-17 Thread Arnaud Fontaine
> "Francesco" == Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Francesco> What you posted is the 3-clause BSD license (just with Francesco> the name of the copyright holder substituted, compare Francesco> with /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD). It's perfectly Francesco> fine (softw