Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-03-11 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Ken Arromdee wrote: > On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Francesco Poli wrote: > >> In order to release the audio/video recording in a DFSG-free manner, >> they should release the source as well, as defined in the GNU GPL v2. >> >> Wonderful! That is a feature of the GPL, not a bug! >> Recipients should not

Re: [RFC]: firmware-ipw2200, acceptable for non-free?

2007-03-09 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Francesco Poli wrote: > On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:34:32 -0500 Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > > >> Francesco Poli wrote: >> > [...] > >>> "We would really love to be more permissive, but we cannot, 'cause >>> that other evil guy forbid

Re: [RFC]: firmware-ipw2200, acceptable for non-free?

2007-03-08 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Francesco Poli wrote: > On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:46:05 +1000 Kel Modderman wrote: > > >> On Thursday 08 March 2007 04:23, Francesco Poli wrote: >> > [...] > >>> However, the license does not meet the DFSG (it's not even close to >>> meeting them...): has Intel been contacted and asked to pr

Re: BCFG Public License

2006-07-31 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Benjamin Seidenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Henning Makholm wrote: >> > > >>> What does it even mean then? Which legal consequences does it have for >>> me to "acknowledge" that law? Why wou

Re: BCFG Public License

2006-07-29 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Scripsit Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> > > Please quote the section of the license that states that. > > >>> # LICENSEE AGRE

Re: BCFG Public License

2006-07-29 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
George Danchev wrote: > On Sunday 30 July 2006 00:01, Stephen Gran wrote: > --cut-- > >> Lets refer back to the license for a little clarity, perhaps: >> >> 7. LICENSEE AGREES THAT THE EXPORT OF GOODS AND/OR TECHNICAL DATA FROM THE >>UNITED STATES MAY REQUIRE SOME FORM OF EXPORT CONTROL LICE

Re: Help Selecting License for Bacula Documentation

2006-05-18 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Kern Sibbald wrote: >> Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: >> >>> Kern Sibbald wrote: >>> >>>> John Goerzen wrote: >>>> >>>>> I'm forwarding, with permission, parts of a message from Kern Sibbald, >>>

Re: UC license and debian

2006-05-17 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
kris wrote: > On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 19:06 -0400, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > > [[snipped]] > > >>>>> >>>>> >>>> No, it's not. It doesn't grant the right to be used in commercial >>>> products,

Re: UC license and debian

2006-05-17 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
kris wrote: > We are releasing some software and would like to > make sure it is compatible with debian. > > We have been told that this is the current license to > use for UC produced works. > http://www.ucop.edu/ott/permissn.html > > I searched the archives to no avail. I notice > that it no lo

Re: Help Selecting License for Bacula Documentation

2006-05-16 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Kern Sibbald wrote: >> Hello debian-legal, >> >> I'm forwarding, with permission, parts of a message from Kern Sibbald, >> author of Bacula and its manual. The current manual, which has a >> license listed at http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/index.html, is not >> DFSG-free. However, Kern has indi

Re: License Licenses (again)....

2006-04-23 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Joe Smith wrote: > > "Nathanael Nerode" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Javier wrote: >>> The last proposed licensed I sent is *not* a "new" license. It >>> is simply this license: >>> http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-doc-license.html >> ... >> >>> The Debia

Re: cdrtools - GPL code with CDDL build system

2006-03-18 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: If that is the case, wouldn't the simplest course of action be simply to strip the build system from the tarball and replace it with a free one written by the maintainer? Oops, missed where Don mentioned this earlier in thread. Sorry! Benjamin signatur

Re: cdrtools - GPL code with CDDL build system

2006-03-18 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Måns Rullgård wrote: Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Måns Rullgård wrote: Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Not just linking; it's the creation of a derivative work of a GPLed work. Frankly, I don't see how you can argue that cdrecord is

Re: data on the consultants page

2005-11-16 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Andrew Donnellan wrote: The site seems legit, but that doesn't make spamming legal. To be spam, however, it must be automated. It looks like a site for 'open source' programmers, and Debian clearly qualifies as an 'open source' project (in fact the OSD was based on the DFSG), so it may have been