Re: LGPL v3 compatibilty

2007-07-16 Thread Walter Landry
Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:56:27 -0700 (PDT) Walter Landry wrote: Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:31:13 -0400 Anthony Towns wrote: [...] Note that _if_ we do stick to the view we've taken up until now, when we

Re: LGPL v3 compatibilty

2007-07-16 Thread Måns Rullgård
Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:56:27 -0700 (PDT) Walter Landry wrote: Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:31:13 -0400 Anthony Towns wrote: [...] Note that _if_ we do stick to the

Re: LGPL v3 compatibilty

2007-07-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 08:39:10AM +0100, Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:56:27 -0700 (PDT) Walter Landry wrote: Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2 Jul

Re: LGPL v3 compatibilty

2007-07-16 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Mike Hommey wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 08:39:10AM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. The kernel is completely self-contained. Some code may of course have been borrowed from glibc at some point, but that's irrelevant. Borrowed code *is* relevant, because you can't

Re: Bacula and OpenSSL

2007-07-16 Thread Shane M. Coughlan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Kern Kern Sibbald wrote: On Saturday 14 July 2007 11:03, Simon Josefsson wrote: That is incorrect. The FSF has granted OpenSSL license exceptions to some software that links to OpenSSL. For example, GNU wget. Interesting. Shane would you

Re: Debian Logo license infringement

2007-07-16 Thread MJ Ray
Ricardo Yanez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been approached by what seems to be an attorney from a Chilean NGO called Derechos Digitales (http://www.derechosdigitales.org/), pointing out that a financial newspaper called Diario Financiero (http://www.elfinanciero.cl/) is using the Debian swirl

Re: Bacula and OpenSSL

2007-07-16 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 16 July 2007 10:57, Shane M. Coughlan wrote: Hi Kern Kern Sibbald wrote: On Saturday 14 July 2007 11:03, Simon Josefsson wrote: That is incorrect. The FSF has granted OpenSSL license exceptions to some software that links to OpenSSL. For example, GNU wget. Interesting.

Last word on GPL 3, LGPL 3 etc

2007-07-16 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Dear all, I searched for dfsg and gpl 3 on Google and did not get any good results so I am asking here: Did I miss the thread or has there not been any official announcement of the position of the Debian Project about the DFSG-freeness of the GPL 3 and LGPL 3? How about the AGPL? Seems to

Re: Bacula and OpenSSL

2007-07-16 Thread Shane M. Coughlan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Kern Kern Sibbald wrote: Yes, and in addition, after Josselin's email, I did a bit of research, and for at least one of the files that we use (fnmatch.c), the FSF license was changed from GPL to LGPL sometime in 2004 the best I can tell.

Re: Bacula and OpenSSL

2007-07-16 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 16 July 2007 17:15, Shane M. Coughlan wrote: Hi Kern Kern Sibbald wrote: Yes, and in addition, after Josselin's email, I did a bit of research, and for at least one of the files that we use (fnmatch.c), the FSF license was changed from GPL to LGPL sometime in 2004 the best I

Re: Last word on GPL 3, LGPL 3 etc

2007-07-16 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:48:15 +0530 Shriramana Sharma wrote: Dear all, I searched for dfsg and gpl 3 on Google and did not get any good results so I am asking here: Did I miss the thread or has there not been any official announcement of the position of the Debian Project about the

Re: LGPL v3 compatibilty

2007-07-16 Thread Walter Landry
Måns_Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:56:27 -0700 (PDT) Walter Landry wrote: Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:31:13 -0400 Anthony Towns wrote:

Re: LGPL v3 compatibilty

2007-07-16 Thread Måns Rullgård
Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Måns_Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:56:27 -0700 (PDT) Walter Landry wrote: Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2 Jul 2007

Re: FYI, re `BCS OS Licence'

2007-07-16 Thread Josh Berkus
Ian, I would happily put my name on such a statement. If 3 board members sign it, then it is almost as good as having the board endorse it. -- Josh Berkus Treasurer Software in the Public Interest, Inc. www.spi-inc.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: LGPL v3 compatibilty

2007-07-16 Thread Walter Landry
Måns_Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Inside the kernel stdio is meaningless, so I'd hardly expect to find that header there. The only places in the kernel source where stdio.h is included are in tools, such as kconfig, only to be used for building the kernel or for testing purposes. This