Re: [bunk@fs.tum.de: Bug#65794: freeamp must go to non-free]

2000-06-17 Thread Brian Ristuccia
from Unisys's claim that you need to pay for a license to decode .gif files when you really don't. mp3 encoders that employ the methods described in the patents are restricted in various countries where such patents are permitted. There's probably other ways to encode mp3's,

Re: [bunk@fs.tum.de: Bug#65794: freeamp must go to non-free]

2000-06-19 Thread Brian Ristuccia
at is one of the most important reasons why we must keep mpeg3 decoders as a part of Debian. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [bunk@fs.tum.de: Bug#65794: freeamp must go to non-free]

2000-06-19 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 12:27:59PM +0200, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > > Has anything changed about MNGs in last 3 months ??? > Support for mng was added to a recent build of mozilla within the past month or so. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UN

Re: Bug#68652 acknowledged by developer (dosemu has clickwrap license)

2000-08-06 Thread Brian Ristuccia
t; References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on >Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 03:20:19AM -0400 > Delivered-

Re: Bug#68652 acknowledged by developer (dosemu has clickwrap license)

2000-08-06 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 09:10:29PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Aug 06, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > > If the clickwrap license doesn't go away, dosemu should move to non-free. > [...] > > Show me where the DFSG prohibits software from using clickwrap > licenses.

Re: Is phpGrabComics legal?

2005-01-21 Thread Brian Ristuccia
cting phpGrabComics to personal use only will prevent its inclusion in Debian. Otherwise, I see no reason why the project would not include it. Users who use phpGrabComics to copy and redistribute comics may find their own problems... -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: DRM in PDF readers

2005-03-12 Thread Brian Ristuccia
our bug fix must not break the pdf reader's ability to display or output the copyright license data if it had that feature before. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Zope license

1999-01-21 Thread Brian Ristuccia
r not. > No. The GPL does not place any restrictions on fair use of the material. It only grants extra rights provided you agree to follow some rules. The GNU General Public License specifically reads: "Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by t

Re: Zope license

1999-01-21 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 03:14:08PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > I can think of one example of this -- the GPL itself: > > c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when >run, you must cause it, when started running for such interactive use >in the most ord

Re: Zope license

1999-01-22 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 04:07:00PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > From: Brian Ristuccia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > No. The GPL does not place any restrictions on fair use of the material. It > > only grants extra rights provided you agree to follow some rules. The GNU >

Re: Zope license

1999-01-22 Thread Brian Ristuccia
slaves into freedom, making hamurgers, nuclear weapons, biochemical weapons, or comitting what their government may consider fraud or treason. Clause 6 is there for good reason. Don't tamper with it. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: We distribute LyX?

1999-01-22 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 11:12:43AM -0600, David Starner wrote: > Brian Ristuccia wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 10:42:00AM -0600, David Starner wrote: > > > > > > This permission certainly includes linking against GUI toolkits like > > > XForms, M

Re: Zope license

1999-01-22 Thread Brian Ristuccia
er that part > of the code, they're within their rights -- but, of course, that would > greatly limit the utility of the editor. > Can't alter the code in Zope, but there's nothing (other than the bogus clause in the zope license, which is probably unenforcable anyway) tha

Re: Zope license

1999-01-23 Thread Brian Ristuccia
You're right. It would be better to just extend guideline 6 to prevent restrictions on use, or add a new guideline prohibiting licenses that infect the program output or data files the program is used with. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mgetty should be in non-free?

1999-01-27 Thread Brian Ristuccia
ecipient only has a copy, not ownership of the work. > I can choose to give you a copy of, say, gcc. I can choose not to. I > can promise you that I'll choose to give you a copy if you give me > money in return. Am I not then selling a copy? > No. Very different. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mgetty should be in non-free?

1999-01-27 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 06:14:51PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Brian Ristuccia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > What is the difference between "charge a fee for the physical act of > > > transferring a copy" and "sell a copy"? > >

Re: Mgetty should be in non-free?

1999-01-28 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 12:51:39AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Brian Ristuccia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Don't say "but the user should know that he means make profit from selling a > > _copy_ of mgetty". If you're an author, you'll find

Re: Mgetty should be in non-free?

1999-01-28 Thread Brian Ristuccia
r pretty boring news articles. Since selling a home transfers the rights to live in that home, and the right to sell it again in the future, it's not like this is a foriegn concept for most people. This is also why bestsellers say "Over 500,000,000 copies sold!" on the back cov

Re: ¿Misuse of Debian name and logo?

1999-01-29 Thread Brian Ristuccia
doesn't prevent Debian from giving permission on a case-by-case basis. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The 'CMU' license

1999-02-04 Thread Brian Ristuccia
paying CMU any money", not "you can't charge any money." -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

open source trademark

1999-02-27 Thread Brian Ristuccia
/0,4153,1014005,00.html If SPI still owns this mark, someone needs to send Sun Microsystems a cease-and-desist before we lose it. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: open source trademark

1999-02-27 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 09:29:38PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Brian Ristuccia writes: >> http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,1014005,00.html > >> If SPI still owns this mark, someone needs to send S

Re: License determination

1999-03-04 Thread Brian Ristuccia
t screen, or prevent links to the about screen from being removed, this clause is probably unneccessary. If the author could be convinced that clause 2c already protects his interests, he might consider removing the extra clause and thus prevent this from being an issue at all. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Richard Stallman ] Re: Debian & BSD concerns

1999-03-15 Thread Brian Ristuccia
e, any license with such a clause is not a free software license. > [other stuff deleted] -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Richard Stallman ] Re: Debian & BSD concerns

1999-03-15 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 03:00:52PM -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > What is the DFSG and where can I read it? > DFSG = Debian Free Software Guidelines http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNSsafe license

1999-03-17 Thread Brian Ristuccia
afe (obviously non-free) would it end up in contrib. I find it discomforting that a very important part of the Internet is at risk of getting entangled with patent issues and proprietary code when there's perfectly acceptable free code and unpatented (actually patent-expired) technologies that

Re: Need GPL exception statement for Qt-using code

1999-03-19 Thread Brian Ristuccia
Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need GPL exception statement for Qt-using code

1999-03-19 Thread Brian Ristuccia
executable file might be covered by the GNU General Public License. > This looks like it might make a loophole for folks who want to distribute binaries and not be affected by the GPL. Perhaps it would be safer to grant permission for the person distributing the program to assume, for

Debian wants to include AOL TiK client with Debian GNU/Linux

1999-03-22 Thread Brian Ristuccia
ill resolve the licensing issues with AOL's TiK instant messanger client, and enable us to include it as a part of Debian GNU/Linux. Thank you. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian wants to include AOL TiK client with Debian GNU/Linux

1999-03-22 Thread Brian Ristuccia
ce has no bearing on our ability to distribute the software. >From what I can see, only the software license at the top of each source file is at issue. Thank you for getting back to me so quickly. Please keep in touch regarding any changes you might be making to the TiK license. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

developers keys in contrib?

1999-03-26 Thread Brian Ristuccia
Now that GNU Privacy Guard is available to do everything PGP does under a free license, is tehre any reason for the developers keys to be in contrib instead of main? Is there something here I'm missing? -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recently released QPL

1999-03-28 Thread Brian Ristuccia
ot have this problem. I don't like advertising clauses. I think the advertising clause makes ash less free. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

tik license changes! Way to go!

1999-03-29 Thread Brian Ristuccia
02111-1307, USA. I will probably work up a package within the next few weeks. Nice job guys, thanks to everyone who contributed. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The QPL

1999-03-29 Thread Brian Ristuccia
r all patches and re-writing them. > Nothing in the GPL prevents an author from selling copies of his work, even when the work is combined with substantial patches or other software under the GPL. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The QPL

1999-03-30 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 11:28:24PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Brian Ristuccia wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 01:08:19PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > > > He was almost ready to use the GPL, but I pointed out that once > > > pe

Re: Intent to package xmemos

1999-03-30 Thread Brian Ristuccia
ot; but I don't know if this may introduce any unneccessary loopholes or limitations. * Allow distribution of the source under the plain GPL to limit license incompatibility. ("If you choose not to excercise this option, you may distribute this software only under the terms of the GNU General Public License and may remove this paragraph.") This would allow parts of xmemos that don't require xforms to be used in other GPL'd projects. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

MWPL - Metrowerkz Publick License

1999-03-30 Thread Brian Ristuccia
http://www.sodan.dk/gamecode/mwpl.html I don't see anything immediately non-free in this license. Of course it may have hidden issues and probably conflicts with other existing free licenses, but it in general looks better than the APSL. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROT

Re: Intent to package xmemos

1999-03-30 Thread Brian Ristuccia
sed under the standard GNU General Public License. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MWPL - Metrowerkz Publick License

1999-03-30 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 03:52:22PM -0600, David Starner wrote: > Brian Ristuccia wrote: > > > > http://www.sodan.dk/gamecode/mwpl.html > > > > I don't see anything immediately non-free in this license. Of course it may > > have hidden issues and proba

Re: Deltec UPS Software

1999-03-31 Thread Brian Ristuccia
uthors of free source software getting sued for problems in their > code? > I will cc this to debian-legal for their opinion. I think these lawsuits are rare to non-existant, and the odds of someone winning are nearly nil. Large universities wouldn't give away software if it opened them

[talon@talon.ddns.org: Re: Upstream Email]

1999-04-13 Thread Brian Ristuccia
- Forwarded message from "Brian E. Ermovick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 01:47:49 -0500 From: "Brian E. Ermovick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Brian Ristuccia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Upstream Email Hrmm -- I'm not about to

Re: WTEST license conditions

1999-04-21 Thread Brian Ristuccia
e seen firsthand a certain large corporation purchase support contracts and paid downloads for even the most miscellary pieces of software. A tool as useful as WTEST should have no problem getting a few bucks from those with deep pockets so long as you make it clear how they go about paying an

Re: SGI OpenVault

1999-04-27 Thread Brian Ristuccia
/www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=CnYpKWbWbu0znmduZ&FQ=open-source) > Problems: * Notification Clause (3) * Advertising Clause (5) * US Legislation Imperialism (7) Interesting: * Patent Infringement Clause (8) -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Forking and relicensing issues (different)

1999-05-10 Thread Brian Ristuccia
u can > conceivably rebuild the boot loader with the source and objects provided. > I think NeXT tried to do this and ended up releasing the full source to their Objective C compiler. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A Data License

1999-05-20 Thread Brian Ristuccia
to help create an environment where a "free" release > is considered first, or at least seriously. > Best of luck. I'm thinking the XFree86 license would best suit the type of work you're planning to do. However, I think using the FSF documentation license or GNU GPL would encourage the production of more Free Software over the integration of free map data into proproprietary products. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (Fwd) Re: [awansink@ke.com.au: Re: Isn't a kde version of abiw

1999-05-29 Thread Brian Ristuccia
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Note that the wording of the Qt exception is very carefully done. It enables distribution with Qt (or another free

Re: GPL link against non-free in original work (Re: Isn't a kde version..)

1999-05-29 Thread Brian Ristuccia
> The one distributed by Troll Tech? That's rather limiting, and I'd > consider the resulting program non-free, since for example we wouldn't > be able to link it with a Qt that was modified to fix bugs. If you allow > more, how much more? This could easily open up a loophole in the GPL. > Perhaps you'd be better off with the MIT license in the first place. > Sigh.. Incompatible licenses... -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GPL link against non-free in original work (Re: Isn't a kde version..)

1999-05-30 Thread Brian Ristuccia
k Overmars). If you choose not to excercise this option, you may distribute this software only under the terms of the GNU General Public License and may remove this paragraph. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 6 GPL'ed Packages that depend on XForms.

1999-06-04 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 11:39:51AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Raul Miller wrote: > > > Brian Ristuccia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > You may, at your option and for the purposes of distributing > > > > > this program in object c

Re: 6 GPL'ed Packages that depend on XForms.

1999-06-07 Thread Brian Ristuccia
of this software. > I know this seems silly, but it might be wise to make it clear that when that paragraph is removed the rights granted by it are also revoked. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about licensing

1999-06-13 Thread Brian Ristuccia
um, can you provide us with > a copy of the MS Windows license and the MSVC license? I'd bet that somewhere > in there is a statement about your right to develop applications to execute > on Microsoft Windows. > What about folks developing Microsoft Windows apps with djgpp or cyg

Re: Werken Public License

1999-06-13 Thread Brian Ristuccia
r bake under additional different licenses. * Any changes or patches received and included will be covered under the same licenses as bake itself. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Werken Public License

1999-06-14 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 04:00:29PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote: > I agree with your call on the DFSG #9 violation, it's not currently Open > Source. > > > From: Brian Ristuccia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * You may not distribute a modified version of this softw

Re: Question about licensing

1999-06-14 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 03:34:38PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote: > From: Brian Ristuccia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > What about folks developing Microsoft Windows apps with djgpp or cygwin32? > > Microsoft's application license explicitly prohibits you from running the

Re: Is it illegal to distribute Linux kernel? KDE precedent.

1999-06-24 Thread Brian Ristuccia
y other licenses as noted in their respective source files, are covered by the GNU General Public License when distributed with the Linux kernel. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

bladeenc

1999-06-29 Thread Brian Ristuccia
be hosted? Sweeden is safe. Australia might be. Germany is probably not. Where is non-us currently located? -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bladeenc

1999-06-30 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 05:25:03PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Brian Ristuccia wrote: > > My question is, do we have a server in a country where this package could be > > hosted? Sweeden is safe. Australia might be. Germany is probably not. Where > > is non

Re: bladeenc

1999-06-30 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 01:54:05PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 03:26:07PM -0400, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > > > > > > The Netherlands, which should be safe. I'm not sure how having an > > > mp3-encode on non-US will influence our mirrors t

Re: bladeenc

1999-07-01 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 10:47:22AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > Brian Ristuccia wrote: > > > We should really have a Debian package header like > > Prohibited-By-Thought-Police-In: with a list of ISO country codes to prevent > > mirrors in non-free countries from picking

Re: Intent to Package: bladeenc 0.81

1999-07-01 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 02:25:04PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 02:10:40PM -0400, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > > Unless there are any objections, I will download this package from Tord > > Jansson's site in .se to pandora (a non-US machine in .nl) within t

Re: Intent to Package: bladeenc 0.81

1999-07-01 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 02:32:03PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 02:10:40PM -0400, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > > Here's the contents of the copyright file I prepared: > > > > It was downloaded from > > <http://home.swipnet.se/~w-82

Re: KDrill - YAL

1999-07-04 Thread Brian Ristuccia
iner > E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > WebPage: http://www.callisto.si.usherb.ca/~94246757 > RSA PGP KEY [E3723845]: 1C C1 4F A6 EE E5 4D 99 4F 80 2D 2D 1F 85 C1 70 > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IBM public license

1999-07-06 Thread Brian Ristuccia
Bruce had indicated that there were. > > That's what I was asking about. > Does the latest version of the IBM license still require one to waive their right to a jury trial? -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: perl camel silliness

1999-07-10 Thread Brian Ristuccia
ite makes attribution, but I couldn't find any such attribution in macperl. I don't know if permission was granted for either. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gif2png in non-free?

1999-07-14 Thread Brian Ristuccia
press or implied warranty. | */ /* +---+ */ -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

new rdist license

1999-07-19 Thread Brian Ristuccia
http://www.magnicomp.com/rdist/rdist-eu-license.shtml This license is weird. It prohibits non-free use, except for Linux distributions. I think this may violate DFSG #8. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Oracle 8i for Linux License Humor

1999-07-20 Thread Brian Ristuccia
revious OTN License terms (including the Oracle Program License as modified by the OTN Program Use Certificate)." -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Oracle 8i for Linux License Humor

1999-07-21 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 09:36:51PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > Brian Ristuccia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I figured we could occasionally use a little laugh on this list, so have a > > look at the following two URL's: > > > > http://technet.oracle.co

Re: the new IglooFTP license

1999-07-30 Thread Brian Ristuccia
de ? > > Yes. But only if the patch is substantial enough in itself to be protected by copyright. Oneliners like -if (symbol) { +if (!symbol) { are not substantial patches. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fwd: Intent to package: pm3]

1999-08-01 Thread Brian Ristuccia
t from what? > > I regret that I don't have a copy of the FAR, but I think someone needs to > look this up. The reason it exists is that the U.S. government has different > rights regarding intellectual property than an individual or corporation. > That somehow seems unfair...

Bug#42571: gif2png not nonfree unless it can write gifs

1999-08-06 Thread Brian Ristuccia
uable tool for migrating away from the patent-encumbered gif file format, I think it's important for it to be accessable to as many people as possible. It's a shame for it to be in non-free if it doesn't have to be. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can I have a package with no real name of upstream maintainer?

1999-09-29 Thread Brian Ristuccia
ftware Foundation has a few good ones working for them. I'm sure they'd see to it that everything was taken care of if the author of tkpgp was to assign his copyright. It is probably worth looking into. Good Luck. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SSH never free

1999-10-04 Thread Brian Ristuccia
he rather odious license on cs.hut.fi's ssh2, lsh remains a very worthwhile effort. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: license question

1999-10-05 Thread Brian Ristuccia
to that >version instead]. > > Stephen R. E. Turner > Statistical Laboratory > 16 Mill Lane > Cambridge > England > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/ > 2nd September 1999 > -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SSH never free

1999-10-05 Thread Brian Ristuccia
een clients based on what's available on each side. I do know that at least one of the commercial, proprietary SSH clients omit IDEA encryption support to avoid the license fee. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Corel's apt frontend

1999-10-18 Thread Brian Ristuccia
ith that wouldn't force them to pay royalties to Troll > > Tech, though? > > I don't think it's more than $2000. They can afford it :-) > Just curious, is Corel in a position to buy TT or Qt outright? -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [harik@chaos.ao.net: Bug#47735: VIM includes encryption. Needs to become a non-US package.]

1999-10-19 Thread Brian Ristuccia
r removing crypto from > his version as well. > He's right. Pretend crypto is much worse than no crypto at all. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#47845: libdbd-pg-perl nonfree?

1999-10-20 Thread Brian Ristuccia
dia for commercial distribution without the prior approval of the author. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#47845: libdbd-pg-perl nonfree?

1999-10-20 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:24:40PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Oct 20, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > > COPYRIGHT > >The DBD::Pg module is free software. You may distribute > >under the terms of either the GNU General Public License > >or the Art

Re: Corel's apt frontend

1999-10-20 Thread Brian Ristuccia
OR > > b) Downloadable by anyone, without fee, using a publicly-announced > URL on the internet, for a duration of at least three years > starting with distribution of the binary version. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

non-free, LZW, RSA, and mp3

1999-10-26 Thread Brian Ristuccia
I know this has come up before, but it's not truly resolved, so I'll ask again. Why is Debian able to distribute software that uses patented LZW and RSA algorithms from non-free, but unable to distribute mp3 encoders in the same fashion? -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: non-free, LZW, RSA, and mp3

1999-10-27 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 12:50:17PM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: > Brian Ristuccia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I know this has come up before, but it's not truly resolved, so I'll ask > > again. > > > > Why is Debian able to distribute software

Re: Corel's apt frontend

1999-10-31 Thread Brian Ristuccia
other than the intended start. A federal judge ruled that the Game Genie software was not a derived work of the copyrighted software that it patched and executed, nor was its publisher responsible for contributory infringement. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Corel's apt frontend

1999-11-01 Thread Brian Ristuccia
endo v. Galoob. Game Genie ceases to function when the Nintendo game software is removed, but is not a derivative work nor does it create a derivative work when used, according to the court. I'll dig up the full text of the decision if it'll help convince people in this argument. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Corel's apt frontend

1999-11-01 Thread Brian Ristuccia
;s the same page that I read and based my summary on - but it should be helpful, especially section C, entitled "Works that Interact With Pre-Existing Works" -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Corel's apt frontend

1999-11-01 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 01:11:12AM -0500, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 08:36:09PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: > > > > *anxiously awaiting Brian's URL to the Nintendo v. Galoob thing which will > > hopefully settle this..* > > > > Here

mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-15 Thread Brian Ristuccia
were to create a modified version of TiK or GAIM that used pgp or gnupg to optionally encrypt messages, would this have to go in non-us? -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-18 Thread Brian Ristuccia
I suppose the people involved and directly responsible should try to reach a consensus on this, and perhaps take it to a vote if neccessary. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-18 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 11:31:19AM -0800, Seth David Schoen wrote: > Brian Ristuccia writes: > > > Wouldn't seizing said machines violate the electronic communication privacy > > act or something similar by interefering with email on those machines as > > well?

Re: Corel Lawsuit

1999-11-26 Thread Brian Ristuccia
older lawsuits against Corel for not excercising due-diligence in preventing the losses incurred by the delayed release, wasted CD's and other materials, and civil suits by copyright holders because they failed to listen to the copyright holders when they complained about the incorrect license

Re: Dangerous precedent being set - possible serious violation of the GPL

1999-12-02 Thread Brian Ristuccia
rams > restricted by their authors. > > gimp-nonfree should be renamed and reclassified as a free non-us > package. > I think such a change in classification would require a change in Debian policy. I, for one, endorse such a change. However, I can't speak for all of Debian.

Re: PINE Clone

1999-12-21 Thread Brian Ristuccia
ready a fully functional mailer. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [f.kunkel@ecomp.net: LOGO]

2000-01-04 Thread Brian Ristuccia
--- > > > - End forwarded message - > > -- > James (Jay) Treacy > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Majordomo problems

2000-01-07 Thread Brian Ristuccia
ribute a modified version, we can only do so by distributing the original and a patch - which makes distributing pre-built .deb files impossible. If Majordomo has serious bugs that the license doesn't permit us to fix, and the upstream authors don't show signs of extreme dilligence in gett

Re: ibm jdk licence

2000-01-11 Thread Brian Ristuccia
l the IBM JDK or IBM JRE and is also a member of the public will be a licensee of "Redhat 6.0 Linux," since "Redhat 6.0 Linux" is licensed to the public as a whole. Therefore, anyone can use the JRK or JRE and satisy the JDK and JRE license requirements at the same time. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Uploaded mirror 2.9-13slink15 (source all) to master

2000-01-16 Thread Brian Ristuccia
's a perl script. While I find licenses with patch clauses odious, they fall within the limits of the DFSG. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

new US crypto regulations allow source code export?

2000-01-16 Thread Brian Ristuccia
notification clause and other noxious clauses in the regulation lifted. See http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/13/1220222 (But I'm sure they might lift it on their own if Debian build servers started sending them thousands of messages a day! :) -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROT

Re: Uploaded mirror 2.9-13slink15 (source all) to master

2000-01-17 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 12:09:07PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > > > > > While I find licenses with patch clauses odious, they fall within the > > > limits >

Re: Why Debian's webpages aren't DFGS-free ?

2000-02-02 Thread Brian Ristuccia
icense sounds DFSG free, and I think changing the licenses on the web pages to one like these sounds pretty good. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New ways to evade copyright law (was Re: Vicarious liblity (was: KDE not in Debian?))

2000-02-04 Thread Brian Ristuccia
thorization, on the other hand, is perfectly ok even if you don't have permission to distribute the combination of the two. Any combination of those works would be done by the end user. Only if the end user chooses to distribute the result would they (not you) be in violation of the copyright. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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