Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-04-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:33:38AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Steve Langasek [090328 23:46]: > > And this has all been discussed before. > Obviously not often enough for you. Oh, I'd much rather be doing something other than discussing this, but as long as people are going to misrepresen

Re: (forw) Re: [Indlinux-group] AksharYogini font family released

2009-04-01 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Paul Wise (p...@debian.org): > > Since I sent the initial mail in this thread, we got confirmation that > > Fedora had the exact same concerns about this font, which finally has > > never been packaged for it. > > Do you have a reference for that? From: Rahul Bhalerao To: "Indian Linux

Re: (forw) Re: [Indlinux-group] AksharYogini font family released

2009-04-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Christian Perrier wrote: > Do others see any other needs for that "license" to be considered > free? It depends on upstream's interpretation of the clause 1 and 2. Possible interpretations I can think of: 1. 1.1. Every user must perform a ceremony to celebrate Y

Re: (forw) Re: [Indlinux-group] AksharYogini font family released

2009-04-01 Thread Christian Perrier
(please keep CC again in answers, thanks) Quoting Paul Wise (p...@debian.org): > I'm no expert, but there doesn't appear to be any permission to > modify, trivially non-free. Yes. That seems to be the major blocker. Do others see any other needs for that "license" to be considered free? Since

Re: (forw) Re: [Indlinux-group] AksharYogini font family released

2009-04-01 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Christian Perrier wrote: > >> This font's license is not one of the usual licenses we know about and >> the text is written as is: > ... >> What is the debian-legal experts opinion on this license? > > I'm no expert, but there doesn't appear to

Re: Major Vendors and FSF Announce Instigation of Cloud Alliance and New Open Source License

2009-04-01 Thread Karl Goetz
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:55:22 -0400 Sons Oftheinternet wrote: > *PRESS RELEASE > ** > http://tinyurl.com/cloudleft > > Major Vendors and FSF Announce Instigation of Cloud Alliance and New > Open Source License > * > CLOUD 9, THE CLOUD®, April 1 2009 (CCT): Today, major cloud vendors, > in conjun