Re: is the Clearthought Software License free?

2009-04-23 Thread jochen georges
hello, i asked the author, how to understand the licence, here is the correspondence: # my question - hello, i would like to use "TableLayout" in a free software project. but i'm not sure how to understand the licence: "Redistribution an

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Re: Sapphire.cpp -- Gpl compatible? DFSG-free?

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Finney
Steve Langasek writes: > Wow. Please stop pretending that you have any clue at all what you're > talking about. That might be appropriate if I was speaking as any kind of authority. I'm not; I'm presenting arguments and reasons. Please stick to those instead of the personal attacks. (Also, plea

Re: Sapphire.cpp -- Gpl compatible? DFSG-free?

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
Dmitrijs Ledkovs writes: > /* sapphire.cpp -- the Saphire II stream cipher class. >Dedicated to the Public Domain the author and inventor: >(Michael Paul Johnson). This code comes with no warranty. >Use it at your own risk. Without any regard to the legal issues, it is usually a bad

Re: Sapphire.cpp -- Gpl compatible? DFSG-free?

2009-04-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:52:44AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Andrew Donnellan writes: > > Well, it's public domain, so there's no restrictions on it and it > > should be fine. (Although there is some debate going on about whether > > it's in fact possible to disclaim copyright in some jurisdicti

Re: Sapphire.cpp -- Gpl compatible? DFSG-free?

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Finney
Andrew Donnellan writes: > Whilst they might technically still hold copyright, I wonder if a > court would consider a statement like 'Dedicated to the public domain' > to be an all-permissive licence grant, given the common English > meaning of the phrase. Probably hasn't been tested in court. I

Re: Sapphire.cpp -- Gpl compatible? DFSG-free?

2009-04-23 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > This is no guarantee against the author later realising they still hold > copyright, changing their mind on their generosity, and enforcing their > copyright on those who have violated that copyright. > > More significantly, it is no guarantee

Dirent.cpp - Is it DFSG-free GPLv2 only compatible

2009-04-23 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
It looks similar to BSD license but it doesn't say anything about binary / source distribution. Please tell me if you identify this license by a known name. /* Implementation of POSIX directory browsing functions and types for Win32. Kevlin Henney (mailto:kev...@acm.org), March 1997.

Re: Sapphire.cpp -- Gpl compatible? DFSG-free?

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Finney
Andrew Donnellan writes: > Well, it's public domain, so there's no restrictions on it and it > should be fine. (Although there is some debate going on about whether > it's in fact possible to disclaim copyright in some jurisdictions, but > I highly doubt the author will try to enforce anything.)

Re: Sapphire.cpp -- Gpl compatible? DFSG-free?

2009-04-23 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > In the source code of the package my team is managing there is this one file. > > I'm wondering whether it is DFSG-free and weather GPL v2 only code can > link it with/(out) exception. > > Here is the full copyright statement > > /* sapph

Sapphire.cpp -- Gpl compatible? DFSG-free?

2009-04-23 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
In the source code of the package my team is managing there is this one file. I'm wondering whether it is DFSG-free and weather GPL v2 only code can link it with/(out) exception. Here is the full copyright statement /* sapphire.cpp -- the Saphire II stream cipher class. Dedicated to the Publi

Re: is the Clearthought Software License free?

2009-04-23 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:46:53 +1000 Andrew Donnellan wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Giacomo A. Catenazzi > wrote: > > IMHO this point has an other meaning: > > if you alter the code, you need to change the name (class name), > > i.e. the modified file could be info.mymymy.clearthought

Re: is the Clearthought Software License free?

2009-04-23 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > IMHO this point has an other meaning: > if you alter the code, you need to change the name (class name), > i.e. the modified file could be info.mymymy.clearthought. > > I think it is covered by "Integrity of The Author's Source Code",

Re: is the Clearthought Software License free?

2009-04-23 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Andrew Donnellan wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:23 PM, jochen georges wrote: hello debian-legal team, i wrote a small java-app which i want to make a deian package from. the code, that i wrote is under gpl, but i used the "TableLayout"-library which has the following licence (see:https://tab

Re: is the Clearthought Software License free?

2009-04-23 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Andrew Donnellan wrote: >> /* >>  * >>  * >>  * The Clearthought Software License, Version 1.0 >>  * >>  * Copyright (c) 2001 Daniel Barbalace.  All rights reserved. >>  * >>  * Redistribution and

Re: is the Clearthought Software License free?

2009-04-23 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:23 PM, jochen georges wrote: > hello debian-legal team, > > i wrote a small java-app which i want to make a deian package from. > the code, that i wrote is under gpl, but i used the "TableLayout"-library > which has the following licence > (see:https://tablelayout.dev.jav

is the Clearthought Software License free?

2009-04-23 Thread jochen georges
hello debian-legal team, i wrote a small java-app which i want to make a deian package from. the code, that i wrote is under gpl, but i used the "TableLayout"-library which has the following licence (see:https://tablelayout.dev.java.net/files/documents/3495/59349/License.txt) /* * ==