Re: Debian and the Vinay Sajip License

2014-08-29 Thread Riley Baird
>> I'm from Debian GNU/Linux. On our legal mailing list, we've been having >> concerns about the license that you put most of your software under. >> Essentially, we think that when you say >> >> the name of Vinay Sajip >> not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution >> of the

Re: Upstream GPL-3+ vs debian/* GPL-2+

2014-08-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Eriberto Mota writes ("Re: Upstream GPL-3+ vs debian/* GPL-2+"): > Now, I would like to understand why the packaging isn't a derivative > work (when haven't a patch). So, I am thinking that is because Debian > distributes, separately, the upstream code (orig.tar.gz) and > debian.tar.xz. Is this? Bu

Re: kde-runtime: openssl license exception needed

2014-08-29 Thread Maximiliano Curia
Hi, After some discussion on #debian-devel, there seemed to be consensus that the LGPL doesn't conflict with the openssl license. Personally, I think this is not the case (the conflicting point 6 in the GPL is verbatim copied in LGPL as point 10), but as long as debian-legal is ok with the consen

Re: Debian and the Vinay Sajip License

2014-08-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 3:00 AM, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: > one of Vinay's software that is used (as copies) is dictconfig. He > keeps it here [1], should he relicense this in his repo, and we tell > upstreams who copy to get the new relicensed version ? Personally I think all the relevant ups

Re: Debian and the Vinay Sajip License

2014-08-29 Thread Dariusz Dwornikowski
On 29.08.14 07:10:10, Riley Baird wrote: > On 29/08/14 07:05, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Riley Baird wrote: > > > >> Afaict, the only Vinay Sajip-licensed code that Debian uses is the > >> Python logging module. Before I send a response to Vinay, can anyone > >> confirm