Re: Ogre demos distribution

2007-10-20 Thread Ben Finney
"Andres Mejia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10/19/07, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But hopefully, the copyright holder will clarify the statement. > > The Ogre project lead had this to say. > > "'Use' is meant to mean 'do anything with'. Copy, modify, distribute, > eat, wors

Re: licensing of XMPP specifications

2007-10-20 Thread Ben Finney
Peter Saint-Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As Executive Director of the XSF, I am willing to push for a change > to the licensing so that the XEP licensing is consistent with the > DFSG. Thank you for actively pursuing this worthwhile change. > Although we need to complete some due diligenc

Re: licensing of XMPP specifications

2007-10-20 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:33:14 +1000 Ben Finney wrote: > Peter Saint-Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As Executive Director of the XSF, I am willing to push for a change > > to the licensing so that the XEP licensing is consistent with the > > DFSG. > > Thank you for actively pursuing this

Re: licensing of XMPP specifications

2007-10-20 Thread Joe Smith
"Peter Saint-Andre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It has been brought to my attention that the current licensing of the protocol specifications produced by the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is not in compliance with the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG). Th

Re: Ogre demos distribution

2007-10-20 Thread MJ Ray
Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >How can one tell that they intend 'use' to mean 'use, copy, distribute and > >modify' or something like that? It's not obvious from the written text and > By applying some common sense. Common sense says check. The maintainer

Re: licensing of XMPP specifications

2007-10-20 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:42:54 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote: > I would encourage the adoption of the unmodified Expat/MIT license: > http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt I forgot to add the usual disclaimers: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP. -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/nanodocs/testing_worksta

License question

2007-10-20 Thread Karl Schmidt
(please copy me off list) I have a package (ftp://ftp.linuxcanada.com/pub/Quasar/1.4.7/source/quasar-1.4.7_GPL.tgz) that I want to bring in to Debian, but it has two licenses in the base directory. One is called LICENSE.GPL and contains the usual GPLv2 The other is called LICENSE.COMMERCIAL

Re: License question

2007-10-20 Thread Ben Finney
Karl Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a package > (ftp://ftp.linuxcanada.com/pub/Quasar/1.4.7/source/quasar-1.4.7_GPL.tgz) > > that I want to bring in to Debian, but it has two licenses in the > base directory. The presence of a file containing license terms is not enough to act as