Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-25 Thread Walter Landry
Giancarlo Niccolai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Walter Landry wrote: > > Giancarlo Niccolai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> In example, I can release Falcon as a Debian package under GPL, and > >> let users pick FPLL if they wish. > > > > That would be perfect. Many other programs in Debian are >

Re: Bug#460591: Falcon P.L. license (ITP:Bug#460591)

2008-03-25 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MJ Ray wrote: > Giancarlo Niccolai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> The license is tightly based on Apache 2, with extra >> clarifications and permissions. [...] > > Summary: I believe that any interpreter under this Falcon P.L. > licence will conta

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-25 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MJ Ray wrote: > Sean Kellogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wednesday 19 March 2008 03:10:07 pm Francesco Poli wrote: >>> I don't think that copyright laws give you the right to control >>> distribution of "Scripts", that is to say, works written in

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-25 Thread Giancarlo Niccolai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Walter Landry wrote: > Giancarlo Niccolai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In example, I can release Falcon as a Debian package under GPL, and >> let users pick FPLL if they wish. > > That would be perfect. Many other programs in Debian are > dual-licens

Re: mined copyright with no copyright

2008-03-25 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Mauro Lizaur wrote: > I remember Michiel writing it. In the Netherlands you don't need to > claim copyright, it comes from writing it. > > However in this case, Andy payed (100 guilders if I remember correctly) > for mined, so that would make it a "work for hire". Please note that "work for hire"

Re: mined copyright with no copyright

2008-03-25 Thread Mauro Lizaur
Hi All, I got a reply to the post on comp.os.minix about mined: --- Jan-Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I remember Michiel writing it. In the Netherlands you don't need to claim copyright, it comes from writing it. However in this case, Andy payed (100 guilders if I remember correctly) for mined

Re: mined copyright with no copyright

2008-03-25 Thread Ben Finney
"Mauro Lizaur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I intended to do a qa upload to fix some bugs on the package mined > [0] which is orphaned[1], and i got a lintian warning about the file > debian/copyright where it has no copyright holder, Rather, that the copyright holder is not identified. > when

Re: mined copyright with no copyright

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Below
Hi, Am Di 25 Mär 2008 03:07:24 CET schrieb "Mauro Lizaur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I intended to do a qa upload to fix some bugs on the package > mined [0] which is orphaned[1], and i got a lintian warning about > the file debian/copyright where it has no copyright holder, > when i asked to the ups

Re: Falcon P.L. license (ITP:Bug#460591)

2008-03-25 Thread MJ Ray
Giancarlo Niccolai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > The license is tightly based on Apache 2, with extra clarifications > and permissions. [...] Summary: I believe that any interpreter under this Falcon P.L. licence will contaminate other software and so fail DFSG 9. Also, I think the licence c

Re: ITP:Bug#460591 - Falcon P.L. license

2008-03-25 Thread MJ Ray
Sean Kellogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 19 March 2008 03:10:07 pm Francesco Poli wrote: > > I don't think that copyright laws give you the right to control > > distribution of "Scripts", that is to say, works written in your > > programming language. > [...] > There's even the questi