Re: debian/copyright and actual copyrights

2007-11-17 Thread Jeff Licquia
severity 451647 serious thanks Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: Today I've filed a bugreport http://bugs.debian.org/451647 against wacom-tools package. Its copyright file imho violates the policy (I think I can cite it here since it is quite "concise") ,--- | This package was created by Ron Lee <[EMAIL

debian/copyright and actual copyrights

2007-11-17 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Dear Legal People, I am sorry to drag your attention to such a primitive case but to don't waste too much time in debates on the subject I am not strong in, I decided to ask for clarification (and may be advice) from the list. Today I've filed a bugreport http://bugs.debian.org/451647 against wac

Re: The legality of wodim

2007-11-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 02:29:16AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > The German law doesn't give Jörg Schilling more rights than any other > one Well, it gives him more rights than US law, which has no concept of moral rights. > These moral rights are: > * The respect of the name of the auth

Re: The legality of wodim

2007-11-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 14 novembre 2007 à 08:30 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : > For all I know he does have a legitimate claim under German law that cdrkit > infringes his Urheberrecht, but cdrkit is not a German product per se. The German law doesn't give Jörg Schilling more rights than any other one, and

Re: The legality of wodim

2007-11-17 Thread Ben Finney
Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On lördagen den 10 november 2007, Oliver Vivell wrote: > > And if you use terms, please translate them into english, that > > everybody understands them, so don't use "Urheberrecht" but the > > english term "Intellectual property rights". > > "Intelle

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] final stixfonts licence

2007-11-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Nov 18, 2007 3:18 AM, Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but the license text does not seem to be much changed. There are licence differences to the one I posted before, but that was just because they made a mistake in which version of the licence to post on the site. I don't think t

Re: The legality of wodim

2007-11-17 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On lördagen den 10 november 2007, Oliver Vivell wrote: > And if you use terms, please translate them into english, that everybody > understands them, so don't use "Urheberrecht" but the english term > "Intellectual property rights". "Intellectual property rights" is an attempt to a) bunch a number

Re: NBIS license

2007-11-17 Thread Ben Finney
Miguel Gea Milvaques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm thinking in package the fprint package. It's LGPL, but it contains a > few files licensed as follow. > I'm not sure if it's feasible to be in Debian. Can it go to main? and if > the answer is no, can it go to non-free? > Thanks. > > PD: Pleas

Re: Java, GPL and CDDL

2007-11-17 Thread Ben Finney
Arnoud Engelfriet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > This is of course completely wrong. Unless you accept the terms of the > > GPL, the author's rights apply by default, so you don't have the right > > to use, distribute or modify the software. > > Which doesn't change the

Re: final stixfonts licence

2007-11-17 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:23:52 +0930 Paul Wise wrote: > Hi all, Hi! > > The final STIX fonts licence is available (quoted below too): [...] > Here are some of the comments they got on it: > > http://www.stixfonts.org/feedback-license.html I read: | Comment: The Debian project (http://www.debia

NBIS license

2007-11-17 Thread Miguel Gea Milvaques
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I'm thinking in package the fprint package. It's LGPL, but it contains a few files licensed as follow. I'm not sure if it's feasible to be in Debian. Can it go to main? and if the answer is no, can it go to non-free? Thanks. PD: Please, include me

Re: Java, GPL and CDDL

2007-11-17 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 16 novembre 2007 ? 16:23 +0100, Joerg Schilling a ?crit : > > If you talk to lawyers and ask them about the GPL, they will tell you that > > the GPL is a contract offer that needs to be explicitely acepted by the > > licensee. > > This is of course completely