Re: Legal question to a file from Dr. Dobb's

2016-05-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 7:10 AM, Jan Luca Naumann wrote: > The best thing should be to ask the upstream author to replace the file, > shouldn't it? The other option is to contact the author of the Dr. Dobb's article, whose email address is at the end of the article: http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/lo

Re: Is possible relicense from GPL to BSD?

2016-05-31 Thread Eriberto Mota
Thanks Charles. The distorm3 is a dependency for volatility and I am concerned. Cheers, Eriberto 2016-05-31 20:50 GMT-03:00 Charles Plessy : > > if the distorm3 upstream developer fully holds the copyright on the software, > then he can relicense as he wishes. > > However, BSD-4-Clause is a poo

Re: Is possible relicense from GPL to BSD?

2016-05-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, May 31, 2016 at 08:34:06PM -0300, Eriberto Mota a écrit : > > The distorm3 upstream relicensed the source code from GPL3+ to > BSD-4-Clause. I think it is wrong but I didn't found references about > it. So, I need opinions about this issue. Hi Eriberto, if the distorm3 upstream developer

Is possible relicense from GPL to BSD?

2016-05-31 Thread Eriberto Mota
Hi, The distorm3 upstream relicensed the source code from GPL3+ to BSD-4-Clause. I think it is wrong but I didn't found references about it. So, I need opinions about this issue. Regards, Eriberto

Re: png files

2016-05-31 Thread hpfn
On Mon, 30 May 2016 11:26:30 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 6:09 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > > Herbert Fortes (hpfn) writes: > > > >> But some .png files are like a chess board with a grey color. There is > >> nothing in it. > >> > >> Since a file to be free must have source that ca

Re: Legal question to a file from Dr. Dobb's

2016-05-31 Thread Jan Luca Naumann
Yeah, this was my thought, too, since I found no permission to use this file in a project. The best thing should be to ask the upstream author to replace the file, shouldn't it? Jan Am 1. Juni 2016 00:57:43 MESZ, schrieb Riley Baird : >On Tue, 31 May 2016 23:51:52 +0200 >Jan Luca Naumann wro

Re: Legal question to a file from Dr. Dobb's

2016-05-31 Thread Riley Baird
On Tue, 31 May 2016 23:51:52 +0200 Jan Luca Naumann wrote: > Hey, > > I want to package the tool sedutil > (https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil). > > When writing the debian/copyright file I found a possible file that > could be problematic to be used together with GPL-3 code: > htt

Legal question to a file from Dr. Dobb's

2016-05-31 Thread Jan Luca Naumann
Hey, I want to package the tool sedutil (https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil). When writing the debian/copyright file I found a possible file that could be problematic to be used together with GPL-3 code: https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil/blob/master/Common/log.h Is thi

Re: Maintaining of CodeBlocks

2016-05-31 Thread Alexander Gerasiov
Hello Vincent, On Fri, 20 May 2016 02:01:11 -0700 Vincent Cheng wrote: > Hi Alexander, > > Sorry about the late reply..."next week" turned into "a few months > later", but better late than never, right? Yeah! Good work. I was interrupted with other tasks and had no time to finish this since tha