Re: outside USA

2000-06-16 Thread Chloe Hoffman
This is not legal advice, no attorney-client relationship is established, etc. etc. >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) >To: giulio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: debian-legal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: outside USA >Date: 11 Jun 2000 20:14:03 -0400 > >giulio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writ

Re: Would this be applicable to the API issue?

2000-06-26 Thread Chloe Hoffman
Just some follow-up for those who may be interested Sorry butThis is not legal advice, no attorney-client relationship is established hereby, etc. etc. >From: Mike Bilow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Chloe Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Su

Re: SGI Free SW license 1.1 compatability with Xfree86 style license

2000-07-06 Thread Chloe Hoffman
Actually Henning's understanding of the nature of the clause is correct. An indemnity is a different animal than a warranty - they are not synonymous. A (no) warranty clause in a software license typically addresses what a licensor guarantees (or does not guarantee) with respect to the softwar

Re: SGI Free SW license 1.1 compatability with Xfree86 style license

2000-07-12 Thread Chloe Hoffman
license >Date: 06 Jul 2000 21:00:34 -0400 > > >>>>> On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 11:38:21 EDT, "Chloe Hoffman" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Chloe> Actually Henning's understanding of the nature of the clause > Chloe> is correct. An i

Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-26 Thread Chloe Hoffman
I would note in the U.S. (at least) however the following: § 204. Execution of transfers of copyright ownership (a)A transfer of copyright ownership, other than by operation of law, is not valid unless an instrument of conveyance, or a note or memorandum of the transfer, is in writing and signe

Re: license for Federal Information Processing Standards

2004-02-26 Thread Chloe Hoffman
From: "Mahesh T. Pai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-legal@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: license for Federal Information Processing Standards Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:33:50 +0530 Arnoud Engelfriet said on Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 07:59:49PM +0100,: > Because the Berne Convention appears to state s

Re: sendmail X license (fwd)

2004-05-16 Thread Chloe Hoffman
This happens not infrequently in the U.S. (and at least other common law countries). The "foreign" law is provided by the parties through argument, declarations/affidavits and expert testimony. Here is an example case where a Pennsylvania court applied Virginia law. http://www.paed.uscourts.go

Re: Copyright on 'non-creative' data?

2004-07-06 Thread Chloe Hoffman
Also, note that at least Australia and England extend copyright protection to "industrious collections" (i.e., 'sweat of the brow' databases such as white pages). See, e.g., in Australia - Desktop Marketing Systems Pty Ltd v Telstra Corporation Limited (http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/disp.

Re: Help about texture inclueded in stellarium

2004-07-18 Thread Chloe Hoffman
- Original Message - From: "Nathanael Nerode" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 9:25 PM Subject: Re: Help about texture inclueded in stellarium > > Copyright subsists automatically in photographs in most countries (apparently > not Canada, I

Re: Help about texture inclueded in stellarium

2004-07-18 Thread Chloe Hoffman
- Original Message - From: "Nathanael Nerode" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 8:59 PM Subject: Re: Help about texture inclueded in stellarium > I'm going to deal with these one at a time, to avoid really long messages. > > * The Eart

Re: Free Debian logos? [was: Re: GUADEC report]

2004-07-18 Thread Chloe Hoffman
Companies like Apple and General Electric would be disappointed to hear that. I think you meant that dictionary words can't be trademarked where those words are clearly descriptive of the goods and services in association with which they are associated. - Original Message - From: "Andrew

Re: Copyright, Patent Expirations [Was: Re: GNU License and Computer Break Ins]

2000-05-22 Thread Chloe Hoffman
By doing a little research this is what the U.K. Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988 says about U.K. "crown copyright" (whether these provisions have amended I am not sure): Crown copyright. 163.— (1)Where a work is made by Her Majesty or by an officer or servant of the Crown in the cours

Re: Would this be applicable to the API issue?

2000-06-07 Thread Chloe Hoffman
See comments interspered below. Of course, we're talking about U.S. law here so your mileage may vary in other countries. There is certainly no complete harmony (although partial harmony on some aspects is starting to happen) around the world on almost every IP right. This is not legal advice,

Re: complete clone of the debian website

2000-06-07 Thread Chloe Hoffman
See comments interspered below. Talking about U.S. law here - in other countries your mileage may vary. This is not legal advice, no attorney-client relationship established, etc. etc. From: Mike Bilow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Peter Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: complete clone of the debian website

2000-06-07 Thread Chloe Hoffman
See comments interspersed below. Talking about U.S. law here - your mileage may vary in other countries. This is not legal advice, no attorney-client relationship established, etc etc From: Mike Bilow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-legal@lists.debian.org S

Re: complete clone of the debian website

2000-06-08 Thread Chloe Hoffman
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) To: "Chloe Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-legal@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: complete clone of the debian website Date: 07 Jun 2000 20:46:33 -0400 "Chloe Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "All

Re: outside USA

2000-06-16 Thread Chloe Hoffman
This is not legal advice, no attorney-client relationship is established, etc. etc. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) To: giulio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-legal Subject: Re: outside USA Date: 11 Jun 2000 20:14:03 -0400 giulio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since my works co

Re: Would this be applicable to the API issue?

2000-06-26 Thread Chloe Hoffman
Just some follow-up for those who may be interested Sorry butThis is not legal advice, no attorney-client relationship is established hereby, etc. etc. From: Mike Bilow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Chloe Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-legal@lists.debian.org Subject: Re

Re: SGI Free SW license 1.1 compatability with Xfree86 style license

2000-07-06 Thread Chloe Hoffman
Actually Henning's understanding of the nature of the clause is correct. An indemnity is a different animal than a warranty - they are not synonymous. A (no) warranty clause in a software license typically addresses what a licensor guarantees (or does not guarantee) with respect to the softwar

Re: SGI Free SW license 1.1 compatability with Xfree86 style license

2000-07-12 Thread Chloe Hoffman
yle license Date: 06 Jul 2000 21:00:34 -0400 >>>>> On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 11:38:21 EDT, "Chloe Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Chloe> Actually Henning's understanding of the nature of the clause Chloe> is correct. An indemnity is a different animal than a

Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-26 Thread Chloe Hoffman
I would note in the U.S. (at least) however the following: § 204. Execution of transfers of copyright ownership (a)A transfer of copyright ownership, other than by operation of law, is not valid unless an instrument of conveyance, or a note or memorandum of the transfer, is in writing and signe

Re: Python 1.6 license DFSG free ?

2000-09-17 Thread Chloe Hoffman
This is not legal advice, no attorney-client relationship is established, etc. etc. My understanding is that Virginia law would be applied by the Albanian court (provided, among other things, jurisdiction can be obtained in Albania and provided the Albanian court will accept the contractual ch

Re: Irony of RSA Encryption

2000-09-17 Thread Chloe Hoffman
This is not legal advice, no attorney-client relationship is established, etc. etc. From: Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Paul Serice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-legal Mailing List Subject: Re: Irony of RSA Encryption Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:48:54 -0400 On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 02:14:

Re: Irony of RSA Encryption

2000-10-06 Thread Chloe Hoffman
This is not legal advice, no attorney-client relationship is established, etc. etc. Sorry about the delay in responding...been away From: Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Chloe Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-legal@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Irony of RSA Encryption D

Re: License issues with fortune packages?

2000-12-19 Thread Chloe Hoffman
This is not legal advice, no client-attorney relationship is established, etc. etc. With respect to this package, I suggest taking a look at this case - CASTLE ROCK ENTERTAINMENT, INC. v. CAROL PUBLISHING GROUP, 150 F.3d 132 (2nd Cir. 1998) http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/150_F3d_

Re: fortunes with quotes from movies such as 'The Matrix' etc.

2001-05-01 Thread Chloe Hoffman
What is not highly visible to most is that Hollywood and book publishers have large rights clearance infrastructures. Moreover, the threat of mutual copyright destruction is strong among these established organizations i.e. you sue me for copyright infringement, I may or probably will countercla

Re: Keyspan Firmware fun

2001-05-01 Thread Chloe Hoffman
This is the kind of notice that gets deep-pocket distributors in knots. Pedigree is a major concern. Where did this code from? Is it authorized for distribution? Did some insider take this (perhaps confidential) source and add it to the distribution? The deep-pocket distributor could be sued b

Re: license for a mix of free sw + propritary stuff

2001-05-01 Thread Chloe Hoffman
Just for interest.. here is the European Copyright Directive language with respect to reverse engineering. Note that reverse engineering is quite limited. Also, more accurately, the contractual prohibition may be null and void but there are no other consequences AFAIK e.g. fines, etc. Article

Re: Question about the old BSD license and GPL (gtkipmsg)

2001-06-21 Thread Chloe Hoffman
This is not legal advice. No lawyer-client relationship is established. etc. etc. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) To: "none" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Subject: Re: Question about the old BSD license and GPL (gtkipmsg) Date: 20 Jun 2001 20:04:21 -0700 "none" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: Q: Combining proprietary code and GPL for in-house use

2001-06-21 Thread Chloe Hoffman
This is not legal advice. No lawyer-client relationship is established. etc. etc. From: Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-legal@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Q: Combining proprietary code and GPL for in-house use Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:27:57 +0100 none <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Re: OpenSSL and GPLed programs

2001-06-21 Thread Chloe Hoffman
This is not legal advice. No lawyer-client relationship is established. etc. etc. From: Rick Moen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-legal@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: OpenSSL and GPLed programs Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 07:12:01 -0700 [Aaron Lehmann kindly posted my private comment to him that Eric

Re: Question about the old BSD license and GPL (gtkipmsg)

2001-06-21 Thread Chloe Hoffman
This is not legal advice. No lawyer-client relationship is established. etc etc From: Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Chloe Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-legal@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Question about the old BSD license and GPL (gtkipmsg) Date:

Re: OpenSSL and GPLed programs

2001-06-21 Thread Chloe Hoffman
This is not legal advice. No lawyer-client relationship is established. etc etc From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) To: "Chloe Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-legal@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: OpenSSL and GPLed programs Date: 21 Jun 2001 09:48:34 -0700

Re: Combining proprietary code and GPL for in-house use

2001-06-24 Thread Chloe Hoffman
This is not legal advice. No lawyer-client relationship is established. etc etc From: Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: none <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-legal@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Combining proprietary code and GPL for in-house use Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:01:2

Interesting Microsoft license clause re open source

2001-06-25 Thread Chloe Hoffman
Please excuse cross-posting. In light of recent discussions regarding license incompatibilities, thought members of these list might be interested in this explicit statement of incompatibility in a new beta license from MS, a license which allows for the limited creation and distribution of de

Re: xfig-doc has license problems in examples

2001-10-16 Thread Chloe Hoffman
From: Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sunnanvind Briling Fenderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-legal@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: xfig-doc has license problems in examples Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 22:50:31 -0400 On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:44:56AM +0200, Sunnanvind Briling Fenderson wrote:

Re: Debian trademark [was: Debian GNU/w32, may ready to be started?]

2001-12-03 Thread Chloe Hoffman
This is not legal advice. No lawyer-client relationship is established. etc etc From: Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-legal@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian trademark [was: Debian GNU/w32, may ready to be started?] Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:36:3