Re: Lawyer request stop from downloading Debian

2011-04-24 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 24/04/2011 14:02, Stefano Zacchiroli schreef: I think the first step to do is to get hold of the original cease and desist mail. Has anyone managed to have it yet? This story sounds too absurd to be true. I've googled for the keywords "Media Art Holland" and I can't find the web site of that

Re: The "Evil Cookie Producer" case

2011-03-08 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 8/03/2011 16:45, Josselin Mouette schreef: Hi, and thanks for the effort of providing the complete information. Le lundi 07 mars 2011 à 09:31 +, Andrew Ross a écrit : The software itself is the current version of iText, which is licensed under the AGPL with the following additional term:

Re: The "Evil Cookie Producer" case

2011-03-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 7/03/2011 13:26, Simon McVittie schreef: In this particular situation I'd suggest making the extra term a non-binding request, something like: The author of this software requests that you retain the iText producer line in every PDF that is created or manipulated using iText. or ev

Re: The "Evil Cookie Producer" case

2011-03-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 7/03/2011 11:12, Charles Plessy schreef: Le Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 11:06:22AM +0100, Bruno Lowagie a écrit : Op 7/03/2011 11:02, Charles Plessy schreef: Regardless of the purpose and the intentions behind requiring to ‘retain the producer line in every PDF that is created or manipulated using

Re: The "Evil Cookie Producer" case

2011-03-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 7/03/2011 11:02, Charles Plessy schreef: Regardless of the purpose and the intentions behind requiring to ‘retain the producer line in every PDF that is created or manipulated using iText’, if this addition to the AGPL does not fall under Section 7(b), this makes iText potentially incompatib

Re: The "Evil Cookie Producer" case

2011-03-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
For some reason, my latest answers weren't sent to the list, but to individual people. Sorry for that. This is my latest response: Andrew Ross wrote: My reasoning goes that if I write some software which uses iText to produce a pdf, then if I use some other piece of software to modify that pdf

Re: The "Evil Cookie Producer" case

2011-03-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 7/03/2011 2:17, MJ Ray schreef: Bruno Lowagie wrote: Please don't avoid the question: does the freedom to hide information prevail over the freedom to get information? You mean like you avoided the question: what is the actual case here? No problem. Let me describe the context. I&#x

Re: The "Evil Cookie Producer" case

2011-03-06 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 6/03/2011 18:00, Josselin Mouette schreef: This is not a metaphor. It is about something that is not software, for which you try to apply software reasoning. I fail to see where you want to go with this. *10 Q: Does the DFSG apply only to computer programs? **A:* No, we apply our standards

The "Evil Cookie Producer" case

2011-03-06 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Hello, I'm confronted with a very special case for which I've written a metaphor. I'd like your opinion on this case. Imagine that using software is like baking cookies. A free/open source cookie specialist, company A, distributes recipes that are free in the sense of the AGPL: everybody is