Re: a Free Platform License?

2011-12-13 Thread Alexey Eromenko
Clark: You should speak to FSF, and possibly to Richard Stallman himself about this idea. How to enforce such a license against porting software to Wine ? I do not know... Anyway: originally Free Software was very permissive (MIT-style), non-copyleft. Then came in the GPL. Now came the AGPL to en

Re: conflict between name and text of a license

2011-12-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:28:05PM +0100, Cédric Boutillier a écrit : > > I am packaging a software containing files with the COPYING file here > attached. They have a double BSD and D&R, but the text below "BSD > License" is in fact that of the MIT/Expat license. Dear Cédric, since the Expat li

conflict between name and text of a license

2011-12-13 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Dear debian-legal list, Please Cc: me as I am not subscribed to this list. I am packaging a software containing files with the COPYING file here attached. They have a double BSD and D&R, but the text below "BSD License" is in fact that of the MIT/Expat license. What has priority in this case, th

Re: FYI: Creative Commons 4.0 process starts

2011-12-13 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Stefano Zacchiroli dijo [Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:26:09AM +0100]: > > I hope Debian folks (especially ftpmasters) will be willing to > > subscribe to the cc-licenses list and help ensure that the CC 4.0 > > licenses will be suitable for Debian. > (...) > So, to turn this into something even more use