Re: web hosting providers' modified .debs

2008-01-28 Thread Florian Weimer
> FW> GPLv3 makes it pretty clear that Dreamhost can take your rights away > > So all that effort of writing Free Software and the result is there is > Johnny, sitting at the shell prompt, unable to see the source code > to anything behind it if they decide to close it. Yes, I find the bring-yours

Re: TrueCrypt License 2.3

2008-01-28 Thread MJ Ray
John Halton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 28, 2008 12:05 AM, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If we have named Firefux the modified version of Firefox, I doubt the > > > Mozilla foundation would have let that pass. > > > > There's various other reasons for that and it wouldn't have bee

Re: web hosting providers' modified .debs

2008-01-28 Thread MJ Ray
\"John Halton\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 25, 2008 9:07 AM, Arnoud Engelfriet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My first question would be whether those files would contain sufficient > > creative expression to qualify for copyright protection. If they don't > > (and I am not sure something

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

2008-01-28 Thread MJ Ray
Michael Below <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wondering: Is there a legal system on earth that would accept a > disclaimer like "TINLA"? I think the long list of acronyms may be a sly dig at certain silly postings in times past which complained that certain people weren't making it clear enough

Re: web hosting providers' modified .debs

2008-01-28 Thread Joe Smith
"Arnoud Engelfriet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Florian Weimer wrote: | You may make, run and propagate covered works that you do not | convey, without conditions so long as your license otherwise remains | in force. You may convey covered works to others for

Re: web hosting providers' modified .debs

2008-01-28 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Florian Weimer wrote: > | You may make, run and propagate covered works that you do not > | convey, without conditions so long as your license otherwise remains > | in force. You may convey covered works to others for the sole purpose > | of having them make modifications exclusively for you, or

Re: web hosting providers' modified .debs

2008-01-28 Thread Florian Weimer
> FW> GPLv3 makes it pretty clear that Dreamhost can take your rights away > > So all that effort of writing Free Software and the result is there is > Johnny, sitting at the shell prompt, unable to see the source code > to anything behind it if they decide to close it. Yes, I find the bring-yours

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

2008-01-28 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Monday 28 January 2008 01:27:54 am John Halton wrote: > > Two, this disclaimer tries to force its own judgement onto the legal > > system. If the statement you are referring to is legal advice (which is > > a question of legal interpretation), you shouldn't be able to define it > > away post fac

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

2008-01-28 Thread John Halton
On Jan 26, 2008 2:52 PM, Michael Below <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wondering: Is there a legal system on earth that would accept a > disclaimer like "TINLA"? Perhaps first of all we need to ask if there is a legal system on earth that would regard contributing to this mailing list as constit

Re: TrueCrypt License 2.3

2008-01-28 Thread John Halton
On Jan 28, 2008 12:05 AM, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If we have named Firefux the modified version of Firefox, I doubt the > > Mozilla foundation would have let that pass. > > There's various other reasons for that and it wouldn't have been covered > by a prohibition on calling it Firefo