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Re: Bacula: GPL and OpenSSL

2007-06-07 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Kern, On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:53:19PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Well, the above is total Greek to me. However, I must say that there is > absolutely no reason why Bacula would every accompany OpenSSL in any sense > of the the English meaning of accompany that I am aware of Bacula doesn

Re: Request for suggestions of DFSG-free documentation licences

2007-06-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes On 05/06/07, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Small excerpts (e.g. an Emacs reference card from the Emacs info docs) > are probably covered under Fair Use. [...] This is England calling. Would the FSF have

Re: Request for suggestions of DFSG-free documentation licences

2007-06-07 Thread Michael Poole
Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso writes: > On 05/06/07, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Small excerpts (e.g. an Emacs reference card from the Emacs info docs) >> > are probably covered under Fair Use. [...] >> >> This is England calling. > > Would the FSF have to sue under US law or UK law an offend

Re: Bacula: GPL and OpenSSL

2007-06-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:50:39AM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kern believes that he must remove the explicit OpenSSL exemption from > the license in order to be fully GPL-compliant,

Re: Bacula: GPL and OpenSSL

2007-06-07 Thread Michael Poole
Kern Sibbald writes: > On Thursday 07 June 2007 19:00, Michael Poole wrote: >> >> Debian generally distributes OpenSSL logically near the packages that >> dynamically link against it, so the major system component option is >> not available to Debian ("... unless that component itself accompanies

Re: Bacula: GPL and OpenSSL

2007-06-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 07 June 2007 23:51, John Goerzen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:17:28PM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: > > GnuTLS + libgcrypt + libtasn1 implements everything unless you need > > ECC. > > > > > And why does FSFE disagree with our interpretation? > > > > Michael Poole gave a good ans

Re: Bacula: GPL and OpenSSL

2007-06-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 07 June 2007 20:15, John Goerzen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:50:39AM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: > > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Kern believes that he must remove the explicit OpenSSL exemption from > > > the license in order to be fully GPL-compliant, and it a

Re: Bacula: GPL and OpenSSL

2007-06-07 Thread Michael Poole
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:17:28PM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: >> GnuTLS + libgcrypt + libtasn1 implements everything unless you need >> ECC. >> >> > And why does FSFE disagree with our interpretation? >> >> Michael Poole gave a good answer. > > He didn

Re: Bacula: GPL and OpenSSL

2007-06-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 07 June 2007 19:50, Walter Landry wrote: > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kern believes that he must remove the explicit OpenSSL exemption from > > the license in order to be fully GPL-compliant, and it appears that FSFE > > agrees. > > I just read the contents of > >

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Anthony W. Youngman writes: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 09:33:12PM +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: I'm in the UK, and if I wasn't but the choice of

Re: Bacula: GPL and OpenSSL

2007-06-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 07 June 2007 19:00, Michael Poole wrote: > John Goerzen writes: > > > Kern approached me about this situation (see full correspondence below, > > forwarded with his permission). He added that Bacula does not > > statically link with OpenSSL, that OpenSSL support can be disabled at > >

Re: Bacula: GPL and OpenSSL

2007-06-07 Thread John Goerzen
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:17:28PM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: > GnuTLS + libgcrypt + libtasn1 implements everything unless you need > ECC. > > > And why does FSFE disagree with our interpretation? > > Michael Poole gave a good answer. He didn't address the FSFE -- where are they taking a differ

Re: Request for suggestions of DFSG-free documentation licences

2007-06-07 Thread Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso
On 05/06/07, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Small excerpts (e.g. an Emacs reference card from the Emacs info docs) > are probably covered under Fair Use. [...] This is England calling. Would the FSF have to sue under US law or UK law an offender in the UK? I'm genuinely ignorant about thi

Re: Bacula: GPL and OpenSSL

2007-06-07 Thread Walter Landry
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:50:39AM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: > > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Kern believes that he must remove the explicit OpenSSL exemption from > > > the license in order to be fully GPL-compliant, and it appears that

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-07 Thread Michael Poole
Anthony W. Youngman writes: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Langasek > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >>On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 09:33:12PM +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: >>> I'm in the UK, and if I wasn't but the choice of venue specified >>> "England and Wales", I'd probably have a very ni

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 09:33:12PM +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: I'm in the UK, and if I wasn't but the choice of venue specified "England and Wales", I'd probably have a very nice holiday at the copyright holder's exp

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-07 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes On Sunday 03 June 2007 14:46:12 Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >That's wishful thinking, at best. Common knowledge defines "fee" as >"something inv

Re: Bacula: GPL and OpenSSL

2007-06-07 Thread John Goerzen
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:50:39AM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kern believes that he must remove the explicit OpenSSL exemption from > > the license in order to be fully GPL-compliant, and it appears that FSFE > > agrees. > > I just read the contents o

Re: Bacula: GPL and OpenSSL

2007-06-07 Thread Walter Landry
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kern believes that he must remove the explicit OpenSSL exemption from > the license in order to be fully GPL-compliant, and it appears that FSFE > agrees. I just read the contents of /usr/share/doc/bacula-director-sqlite/copyright I have reproduced it

Re: Bacula: GPL and OpenSSL

2007-06-07 Thread Michael Poole
John Goerzen writes: > Kern approached me about this situation (see full correspondence below, > forwarded with his permission). He added that Bacula does not > statically link with OpenSSL, that OpenSSL support can be disabled at > build time, and that FSFE does not believe that an exception cla

Bacula: GPL and OpenSSL

2007-06-07 Thread John Goerzen
Hi legal folks, Kern Sibbald, author of Bacula, contacted me today regarding its license. Some years ago, Jose Luis Tallon -- then the maintainer of Bacula -- asked Kern to add a clause to the Bacula license that would explicitly permit linking with OpenSSL. Kern did. Kern also subsequently ass

Re: License concerns regarding package lft

2007-06-07 Thread MJ Ray
Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > A court is going to consider what the apparent intent was -- not try to > stretch the meaning beyond the obvious. Intent is not written on the paper. It seemed obvious to me that this clause hinders binaries. It seemed obvious to Florian Weimer that