[swhoisd] Want to make sure...

2006-09-07 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, Currently I am packing the swhoisd (Simpel Whois Daemon) for Debian but I want to make sure, there are no problems... COPYING: 8 Copyright © 2000 Joao Cabral [EMAIL PROTECTED] All rights reserved. Copyright © 2001 Dan

Re: Want to make sure...

2006-09-07 Thread Andrew Donnellan
That license is OK. On 9/6/06, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Currently I am packing the swhoisd (Simpel Whois Daemon) for Debian but I want to make sure, there are no problems... COPYING: 8 Copyright (c)

Re: Want to make sure...

2006-09-07 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 9/6/06, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. The name of the authors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. Is that a copying error or just a really stupid license? I would insert the word 'not' inbetween

Re: Copyright in public domain package

2006-09-07 Thread MJ Ray
Michael Hanke [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Please keep me CC'ed, I'm not subscribed. ] [...] I talked to upstream and they replaced those statement with something like the following to make their software acceptable for Debian main: # The immv file was originally part of FSL - FMRIB's Software

Re: Want to make sure...

2006-09-07 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-09-07 19:17:58, schrieb Andrew Donnellan: On 9/6/06, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. The name of the authors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. Is that a copying error or just a really

Re: Generating VST headers

2006-09-07 Thread Free Ekanayaka
Hi Javier, sorry for the delay, but I was on holiday and I'm still recovering the old mails.. |--== Javier Serrano Polo writes: JSP Hi, again. JSP You may have heard about VST and its non-free headers. I'm using a free JSP program that optionally supports that technology and, of course,

Re: Want to make sure...

2006-09-07 Thread MJ Ray
Andrew Donnellan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 9/6/06, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. The name of the authors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. Is that a copying error or just a really stupid license?

Re: Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-07 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, On Thu, Sep 07, 2006, Anon Sricharoenchai wrote: According to, http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xine-develm=107261185004445w=2 , since they can't find where to contact the author of majormms, either in majormms website, http://www.geocities.com/majormms/ , and its source,

Re: Copyright in public domain package

2006-09-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How has it 'been placed in the public domain'? I am not aware of any way to do that in Oxford besides copyright expiring, or the work somehow not qualifying for automatic copyright protection anyway. It may be possible to disclaim all copyright interest in a work, but

libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-07 Thread Anon Sricharoenchai
Package: libmms Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 According to, http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xine-develm=107261185004445w=2 , since they can't find where to contact the author of majormms, either in majormms website, http://www.geocities.com/majormms/ , and its source,

[Fwd: Re: Problem with license of msv-xsdlib]

2006-09-07 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, our package msv-xsdlib [1] has been refused even from non-free due to license issues. Hence I've contacted the upstream developer (from Sun) and got the answer below. As I understand from different discussions that the CDDL license in critical in regard to freeness, I have some questions: 1.

Re: Changing license

2006-09-07 Thread Patryk Cisek
Dnia poniedziałek, 4 września 2006 21:02, Tommi Mäkitalo napisał: I looked at the sources just to check if I can help. I ported my C++-application (tntnet) from openssl to gnutls to fix the license-problem as Kari Pahula suggested here (and me). But I found out, that all openssl-checks are

Re: Copyright in public domain package

2006-09-07 Thread MJ Ray
Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How has it 'been placed in the public domain'? I am not aware of any way to do that in Oxford besides copyright expiring, or the work somehow not qualifying for automatic copyright protection anyway. It may be possible to disclaim all

Re: Generating VST headers

2006-09-07 Thread Javier Serrano Polo
En/na Free Ekanayaka ha escrit: Hi Javier, sorry for the delay, but I was on holiday and I'm still recovering the old mails.. Oh my, you don't need to apologize. JSP Oh, that reminds me. Free Ekanayaka, did you get explicit permission JSP from Torben Hohn? You know that Steinberg