[Fwd: Re: [gNewSense-users] PFV call for help.]

2008-01-23 Thread Karl Goetz
Hi Debian-legal. We (gNewSense) just had someone report [3] two clauses in the krb5 (source) package. [1] has its current (Sid) copyright file. I dont see a bug about it, so i'm asking if someone could look at the licence and say if they think the clauses are DFSG free or not? Thanks in

Re: [Fwd: Re: [gNewSense-users] PFV call for help.]

2008-01-23 Thread John Halton
On Jan 23, 2008 10:58 AM, Karl Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here, for the record - and to save Francesco Poli the trouble ;-) - is the full text of the relevant section of the krb5 copyright file: --- The following copyright and permission notice

Re: Licensing exception to increase product compatibility

2008-01-23 Thread Ivan Ristic
Florian Weimer wrote: * Ivan Ristic: The problem is that an Apache installation typically consists of many modules, each with a potentially different licence. I am only aware of the incompatibility between the GPLv2 and the ASL, although other issues may exist. Although GPLv2 is our licence of

Re: Licensing exception to increase product compatibility

2008-01-23 Thread Ivan Ristic
Walter Landry wrote: Ivan Ristic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that it's possible to design a licensing exception that would essentially say the following: - For non-ModSecurity-related modules, allow any open source licence. We would either call for any OSI-certified licence, or

Re: [Fwd: Re: [gNewSense-users] PFV call for help.]

2008-01-23 Thread Ben Finney
Karl Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... I think the license of krb5 (http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/k/krb5/krb5_1.4.3-5ubuntu0.2/) has two unclear sections regarding freedom: * line 18-21: Export of this software from the United States of America may require a

Re: Bug#461659: warsow: New version of warsow possibly non-distributable.

2008-01-23 Thread Joe Smith
Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I'm sorry, I forgot to ask about other concerns that myself and another member of the Debian Games team had. You should have been more clear that you were concerned not about freeness, but about the ability to

Re: [Fwd: Re: [gNewSense-users] PFV call for help.]

2008-01-23 Thread Karl Goetz
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 11:28 +, John Halton wrote: On Jan 23, 2008 10:58 AM, Karl Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here, for the record - and to save Francesco Poli the trouble ;-) - is the full text of the relevant section of the krb5 copyright file:

Re: [Fwd: Re: [gNewSense-users] PFV call for help.]

2008-01-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 08:44:12 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Karl Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * line 81-83: OpenVision also retains copyright to derivative works of the Source Code, whether created by OpenVision or by a third party. I think this could threat this software

License clause, not allowing use of author's name for promoting

2008-01-23 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
Hi, I am concerned about the following license snippet, basically point 3 which talk about use of authors' name. This comes from a source included in conduit (version 0.3.6, not yet uploaded) Please, CC me on replies --- Python bindings for the Box.net API Copyright (c) 2007 Thomas

Re: License clause, not allowing use of author's name for promoting

2008-01-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 23 janvier 2008 à 23:25 +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo a écrit : Hi, I am concerned about the following license snippet, basically point 3 which talk about use of authors' name. This comes from a source included in conduit (version 0.3.6, not yet uploaded) 3. The name of the

Re: [Fwd: Re: [gNewSense-users] PFV call for help.]

2008-01-23 Thread Ben Finney
Julien Cristau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 08:44:12 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Karl Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * line 81-83: OpenVision also retains copyright to derivative works of the Source Code, whether created by OpenVision or by a third party. I

Re: [Fwd: Re: [gNewSense-users] PFV call for help.]

2008-01-23 Thread John Halton
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:01:35PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: * line 81-83: OpenVision also retains copyright to derivative works of the Source Code, whether created by OpenVision or by a third party. I think this could threat this software freedom. AIUI this says that

[Fwd: [Standards] XSF IPR Policy]

2008-01-23 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
FYI, as posted on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list... Original Message Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:09:36 -0700 From: Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: XMPP Extension Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Standards] XSF IPR Policy As approved by the Board of Directors, the

Re: [Fwd: Re: [gNewSense-users] PFV call for help.]

2008-01-23 Thread Ben Finney
John Halton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:01:35PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: * line 81-83: OpenVision also retains copyright to derivative works of the Source Code, whether created by OpenVision or by a third party. I think this could threat this software

Re: [Fwd: [Standards] XSF IPR Policy]

2008-01-23 Thread Ben Finney
Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FYI, as posted on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list... Thanks for passing this on. As approved by the Board of Directors, the XSF's IPR Policy has been updated to use a modified MIT license rather than the old Creative Commons Attribution License:

web hosting providers' modified .debs

2008-01-23 Thread jidanni
Just curious, e.g., dreamhost.com modifies Debian .debs to produce their hosting environment, which we Dreamhost users then use on our shell accounts there. If I can do $ cat file then I should always also be able to cat the source (.deb) to that same cat, no? (I can at present.) Yes I read

Re: web hosting providers' modified .debs

2008-01-23 Thread Ben Finney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just curious, e.g., dreamhost.com modifies Debian .debs to produce their hosting environment, which we Dreamhost users then use on our shell accounts there. If I can do $ cat file then I should always also be able to cat the source (.deb) to that same cat, no?

Re: [Fwd: [Standards] XSF IPR Policy]

2008-01-23 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
Ben Finney wrote: Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FYI, as posted on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list... Thanks for passing this on. As approved by the Board of Directors, the XSF's IPR Policy has been updated to use a modified MIT license rather than the old Creative Commons

Re: web hosting providers' modified .debs

2008-01-23 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Ben Finney wrote: The answer depends on whether Dreamhost are, under the relevant jurisdiction, distributing the modified work to you. It could be argued that they are not: they are merely using the modified work, and allowing you to access a machine they own; thus, the modified work is not

Re: License clause, not allowing use of author's name for promoting

2008-01-23 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
Argh! Are you right. I had a feeling that I had read that before, but tonight I was in the mood that this was imposing a clause that might cause a license problem, and as it was not stating in any other place that it is a BSD license, I didn't realized. Thanks On Jan 23, 2008 11:34 PM, Josselin