Re: Why is firebird in Debian?

2007-07-25 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 10:56:41 pm Walter Landry wrote: > Sean Kellogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 21 July 2007 07:30:32 am Mike Bird wrote: > > > I note that you characterize trying to bring Debian into > > > compliance with the law as being unproductive. > > > > Mr. Towns may no

Re: Why is firebird in Debian?

2007-07-25 Thread Walter Landry
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) The MPL requires you to make the source code to your modifications > available for six-to-twelve months electronically _or_ to make it > available on the same media as the executable version. We do the latter. This is wishful thinking. Distributing tw

Re: Why is firebird in Debian?

2007-07-25 Thread Walter Landry
Sean Kellogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 21 July 2007 07:30:32 am Mike Bird wrote: > > I note that you characterize trying to bring Debian into > > compliance with the law as being unproductive. > > Mr. Towns may not be saying that... but I am. I say that sitting around > thinking

Re: Bacula and OpenSSL

2007-07-25 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 03:12:33PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > In particular, going by the GPLv3: > ] The "System Libraries" of an executable work [...] So I've done the "here's what the license says, let's parse it to see if we can extract any meaning" thing, but I haven't done it the other way

Re: License and copyright in generated code from wsdl2h in gsoap package

2007-07-25 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Khalid Aziz wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 21:03 +0200, Arnoud Engelfriet wrote: > > I don't know this tool at all. Does it only transform your input > > into code, or is some code written by this Robert van Engelen also > > inserted? For example, startup code or some standard library? > > This to