Re: GPL v3 Draft 3- text and comments

2007-04-04 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:40:12 +0100 Gervase Markham wrote: > Francesco Poli wrote: > > > Not-quite-DFSG-free == non-free, even though close to the freeness > > boundary == proprietary, even though close to the freeness boundary > > > > By definition, whatever is not free, is proprietary. > > I w

Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-04-04 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 20:01:02 +0200 Michelle Konzack wrote: [...] > And currently I create some new weapons but the source of "sunburn" > for example is around 70 MBytes including the sound effects plus a > real Video of 480 MByte as source which will be converted to a OGM > to around 30 MByte. I'm

Re: GPL v3 Draft 3- text and comments

2007-04-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gervase Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Francesco Poli wrote: Not-quite-DFSG-free == non-free, even though close to the freeness boundary == proprietary, even though close to the freeness boundary By definition, whatever is not free, is proprietary. I was u

Re: Copyleft variation of MIT license

2007-04-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Suraj N. Kurapati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Suraj N. Kurapati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes One of my intentions was to specify a set of basic requirements for my source code and not go far as to restrict t

Re: Debian License agreement

2007-04-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-24 23:08:31, schrieb Vsevolod Krishchenko: > On Saturday 24 March 2007 22:53, you wrote: > > > find /usr/share/doc -name copyright|xargs tar czf I_Love_Russia.tar.gz > > > > That gives the Russian authorities something to read. :) > > Sad point is it must be translated (at least unof

Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-04-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-28 01:00:13, schrieb Francesco Poli: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:18:32 +0800 Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) wrote: > > To require the author to use some listed formats for image source or > > audio source is impracticable. > Indeed! Because what is source for a work, can be a compiled form for >

Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-04-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-28 01:18:32, schrieb Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu): > Lossless and lossy compression format don't mean anything on preferred > form for modification. Some recorders do record mp3/ogg directly. And > some audio editors do edit mp3/ogg directly. And many of the authors of > the audio works don't

Re: GPL v3 Draft 3- text and comments

2007-04-04 Thread Gervase Markham
Francesco Poli wrote: Not-quite-DFSG-free == non-free, even though close to the freeness boundary == proprietary, even though close to the freeness boundary By definition, whatever is not free, is proprietary. I was using proprietary in what I thought was its fairly common meaning, i.e. clos

Re: GPL v3 Draft 3- text and comments

2007-04-04 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:09:30 +0100 Gervase Markham wrote: > Francesco Poli wrote: > > Well, *when* I want a copyleft, I want one that *actually works*... > > Exemptions for specific incompatible licenses should be left out of > > the license text (so that who wants them can add them as additional

Re: GPL distribution begets only GPL?

2007-04-04 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:03:56 -0700 Suraj N. Kurapati wrote: > If I download some GPL code and it contains some MIT code, can I > just take those MIT portions and act upon them (1) only according > to MIT license? Yes, *as long as* you are able to extract the MIT-licensed part. In some cases, the

Re: GPL v3 Draft 3- text and comments

2007-04-04 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Gervase Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070404 01:09]: > Calling Affero code proprietary is a pretty big stretch. Yes, there's a > clause in there which is a restriction on modification - so it's not > entirely free. But you still have to release the source to > modifications, source follows the

GPL distribution begets only GPL?

2007-04-04 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
If I download some GPL code and it contains some MIT code, can I just take those MIT portions and act upon them (1) only according to MIT license? (2) only according to GPL? (3) or both? Thanks for your consideration. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Copyleft variation of MIT license

2007-04-04 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
Anthony W. Youngman wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Suraj N. Kurapati > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> One of my intentions was to specify a set of basic requirements >> for my source code and not go far as to restrict the code to a >> particular license. That is, I want to allow my code t

Re: Copyleft variation of MIT license

2007-04-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Suraj N. Kurapati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Suraj N. Kurapati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes The MIT license has the following properties (from Ed Burnette's survey[3] of free software licenses): 4. Source