* That which is in main must be buildable and usable solely with
packages also in main (IOW, main is a closure);
Really? Does that mean that the Windows specific parts of GCC must
be removed from the tarball? Or does it only apply to programs, so
if coreutils provides a 1k helper program that
There are just two points in this flow, where
intentional (not as side effect of other considerations) efforts
(not including no-doing) to remove inapropriate texts can be
qualified otherwise: begin (author), and end (reader, user). All
other should be considered censorship.
So if you get a
But this is irrelevant. It is enough that _law_ (majority of
existed copyright laws) makes this difference.
What differences the law, made by people who never heard of
free software and probably had their pen guided by people
from large proprietary software companies, is of little
Yes, of course. And while copyright _really_, not formally,
affects only professional distributors, there was little or no
problem with copyright. Problems begins, when copyright grow so
large, that it affect the rights and interests of users and authors.
I don't understand how copyright has
Fedor Zuev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If we would have the old, 1904-1912-style copyright laws,
there would be much less problems with copyright.
For example, the computer software become copyrightable only
in the late 70-s - early 90-s, after 30+ years of free existense.
And if that
Fedor Zuev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Documentation in not a software.
This has been refuted so many times. What about help2man, which turns software
into documentation? What about the numerous other times documentation is
embedded into source code or source code is embedded into documentation?
Fedor Zuev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But if you take Acrobat, remove, say, the Adobe EULA, and
distribute the rest, it will be censorship or, at least, very
similar. Because you conceal from users the information from
creator, that they reasonable expect to receive from you. Against
the will
Fedor Zuev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
How about a license which allowed off-topic code (say, a 'hangman'
game in the 'ls' program) which must be present unmodified in
source code of all derived versions, and must be invoked (perhaps
through a command-line option) by every derived program?
Brian T. Sniffen, on 2003-08-22, 13:54, you wrote:
[...]
Whew, I though this was a list for serious discussion, but some participants
obviously have to reach a certain age first... *plonk*
Joerg
I, for one, didn't find his argument juvenile at all. I agree with him;
you answered the
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then it would be correct, but would be wrong if considered
in British English. ]
‘affect’ and ‘effect’ is a distinction made by American English — as is
‘insure’ and ‘ensure’, for that matter. I see ‘ensure’ much more often
then ‘insure’ in American English.
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Great
.
[...]
That is bullshit. Quit fighting strawmen, or shut up.
[...]
More BS.
Until you can settle down I'm not going to discuss this with you.
I notice how you cut your writing which he was replying to. It certainly
helped making your response seem justified.
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On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:24:31PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
Scripsit David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I notice how you cut your writing which he was replying to. It certainly
helped making your response seem justified.
Sorry, justified?
What I meant, was that Branden cut all his
wordlists are probably going
to have significant differences in the set of words included.
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‐defined meaning, it has a
well‐defined spelling and currently common usage among a reasonably large
group of people. That’s a creative decision there. Is ‘virii’
an acceptable spelling? Is ‘bakress’?
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A field where
, and the
upstream held to that reading.
Contrary to what people might think, not only can I
chance the license of version X, I can change the license of version X
minus 1, X minus 2, X minus 3...
You can certainly offer it under a new license; but normally you can't
retract the old license.
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:41:29AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 01:30:37PM -0600, David Starner wrote:
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 07:06:46PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
wrote:
Iff the author authorised a
translation, the translation *can
with that copyright.
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-format files,
which can be manipulated by other programs (say, an ad-hoc Perl script,
or a program from Evil-Evil Soft), they want to link in VCG.
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A bad peace is better than a good war. - Yiddish Proverb
,
might actually use that data in a non-approved way. They might forget to
put a license on their perl script, say.
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we'll be doing any real changes to it.
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+ 80 years (e.g. Columbia).
See http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/okbooks.html.
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.
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At 04:56 PM 8/8/02 -0400, Boris Veytsman wrote:
Thomas, the wishes of Knuth need not to be divined. He expressed them
quite clearly. Why do not you read some FAQ, say,
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=TeXfuture
You think that's clear? The only thing pertinent to the argument, and
At 08:49 PM 8/5/02 -0400, Joe Drew wrote:
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 14:49, Joe Drew wrote:
Has there been any resolution of this issue? Is it safe to close these
bugs?
It seems there has been no resolution, but this is an issue we cannot
afford to ignore.
Why? Honestly, we won't be the first to
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-04
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: iso-codes
Version : 1.0
Upstream Author : Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL :
http://www.saorleir.com/iso-codeshttp://www.saorleir.com/iso-codes
* License :
problem is
that OpenSSL is the bad guy,
This is debatable (and note that you don't have to be infatuated with
the GPL to become involved with Debian), and off topic.
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with the youth
it would be better to drop the last six lines; legally, all it
can do is complicate any dispute. However, in any situation not
involving lawyers filing brief and counter brief with a judge, it's the
same thing. I don't see any problem with it.
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It's not a habit
. Assuming that the copyright violator was
stupid enough to go that far; all GPL license questions have been
settled out of court, because getting hauled into court is an expensive
risky proposition.
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It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive.
If you don't have
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 04:53:24PM -0600, John Galt wrote:
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, David Starner wrote:
A patch to a program is a derivative work of the program, in most cases.
Hence, you need permission of the copyright owner to distribute it;
lacking direct permission (rather painful
it out.
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to a program is a derivative work of the program, in most cases.
Hence, you need permission of the copyright owner to distribute it;
lacking direct permission (rather painful for the kernel), you have to
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, and the GPL is
a decent lazy-man's way of applying them.
What exactly was the question here?
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swirl. We don't care about
modifying GLUT source code on the hard drive; we need to know we can
modify it and distribute it.
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not. Was there anything you were worried about?
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to be included in the
package.
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Apparently, the maintainer of Glut hasn't been changed yet.
So I'll cc you directly. (Sorry for the extra copies, James.)
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 02:41:21PM -0600, David Starner wrote:
reopen 131997
thanks
* GLUT headers and examples are actually DFSG free,
see debian/copyright
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 10:51:12AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
This would mean that we would have to stop distributing the Emacs
manual, which has always contained such invariant sections.
As has the GCC manual, at least since 1994. (Funding Free Software)
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than him possibly not being the person who
posted it.
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one softly calls my name . . . the daemon scares me less.
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, right?
Debian has so far ignored that clause, since many of us feel that it
leads to too many questions to be worth it, and that it's fundamentatly
a copout for a Free OS to use it.
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heard, it only covers
encoding, and Fraunhofer is making idle threats about decoding.
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On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 12:10:10PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote:
On Oct 21, David Starner wrote:
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 02:58:22PM +0400, Peter Novodvorsky wrote:
With current jdk license it cannot be put in non-free, right? In this
case, openoffice cannot be put in main nor in contrib
are not in our archive at all for compilation or execution
(interesting that it can't require a package in non-us, but it can
require one not in the archive.)
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I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my breast; each
significant creative work to make.
Why wouldn't it be copyrightable? I don't see why it's any different
from any other textual work of the same size and creative effort.
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Raadt
having to follow the GPL, and that was Bruce Peren's opinion at the
time.)
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suggest starting with the
documentation for gcc, just to get to the heart of the matter.
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tidbits in Debian main
already. Like licenses.
Licenses have always been declared out of territory, since there's no
need to modify them, and we don't want to argue with various authors
over the license of the license.
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that in countries other than the US, you can assert copyright
on bitmap fonts.
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/Windows programming communities (especially
pre-97 or so.) Note the large number of free MetaFont fonts. We just
need to convince font people that they should release under free
licneses.
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I saw a daemon stare into my
as is.
There's also a clause about not changing the name. Since we have a
clause specifically permitting forcing a name change, I'd say that not
permitting a name change would be disallowed restricting modification.
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I saw
Licences? This could encourage artists to publish
their work under these licenses.
Is it really nessecary? Personally, for fonts, I was going to recommend
either a simple, BSDish license, or the Araphic Font license. An Open
Art License shouldn't be created unless there's actually a need.
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.
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- Disciple, Stuart Davis
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:01:55PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't see the distinction. Are icons metadata? The name almost certainly
is . . . but we made a special exception for name changes in the DFSG.
Icons are not metadata. The author
sections of text in some GNU Free Documentation License'd texts
that can not be modified - for example, Funding Free Software in the
gcc manual. Is that DFSG-free or otherwise permissable in main? If it
is, then what about other unmodifiable texts? Where's the line, and why?
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licenses. But I don't see how that
matters.
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of reasoning. Whether or not HP does it makes no difference
to us. Even it currently being in Debian is no proof of it being
acceptable; every so often we come across a license that has been in
Debian for years, but that isn't DFSG.
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, if it is to apply to documentation
and RFC's, modificiation must be allowed.
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).
The univ. considers itself to be a copyright holder, and this
was the only way to get any distribution rights.
He didn't answer the non-free question yet, though.
Huh? That's an answer to the non-free question, right there.
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and no license in the copyright string (this one seems to be much later
than the rest - labeled 1997) and one that's broken and license-less.
I realize I can't package the last two; what about the rest of them.
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interpretation of the license.
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(so long as the ftp-masters don't objec.t)
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The pig -- belongs -- to _all_ mankind! - Invader Zim
through the mud again, to possibly take out a very
minor competitor.
I think these messages have gotten beyond the point of productivity,
and this should be my last one.
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such notice.
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the subscribers agree with; it is the
way the developers like it, and if you don't want your posts
archived, don't post.
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, don't use a permanent medium
like email. Try calling next time. Once you've made a permanent
copy, be it on paper or hard disk, it's permanent.
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. That was in no FAQ. There's a lot
more than just technical content in the email.
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is, or did he just pick it because everyone
else uses it?
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anything about the copyright status?
(I may be going a little paranoid here, but this upstream isn't
careful in dealing with copyright issues, and the description
sounds a little suspicious. What does extracurial mean, and what
did he mean it to mean, anyway?)
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or threats. If you aren't using icons from winrar,
they don't have a foot to stand on.
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that are absurd in these conditions.
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:33:09AM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
Copyright (c) 1995-2000 FORE Systems, Inc., as an unpublished work.
This
This is what gets me. It's being distributed, in some cases by
permanant media, to millions of random people, and it's unpublished?
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, some company releases one of the
old Commodore or NES games under a GPL license, but doesn't release
the source. Does it matter that a number of people can and are
hacking on the binary? Does it make any difference if the source has
been lost by now?
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Pointless
.
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.
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a module or the kernel itself).
If they don't want their hardware supported, that's their problem.
If you want it, you either have a choice of downloading the code,
or using a distribution that doesn't care as much about licenses,
like Mandrake.
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using it without permission, and they ignored the a cease-and-disest
we sent them. Unless you've let others use the trademark in defiance
of your license (which worries me about Linux(tm)), it should be
a simple case.
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expression. In this case,
the creative expression is the choice of which quotes to add to the
file and which not to add.
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by the user.
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, or just not work the way you want. Which are
really the same reasons you want to able to modify code.
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everything but modifications) wouldn't lock
you into to a propriatary and expensive channel either.
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ideological person would say freedom).
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of
whether we approve of the use or not. (IMO, it sucks; if you want to
remove pornongraphy from stuff coming into your system, you should
be able to, and your kids or employees can deal.)
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-free is moot.
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. Do you need more
from me than just this email?
I don't think so, but I'd better let ouer legal people decide that. Thanx!
That's all we need. Thanks!
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writing can be copyrighted, but the rules themselves can't
be.) Note that Debian has (at least) two games with the same rules
as Othello, named GNOME Iagno and Kreversi. Follow that example and
you should be all right.
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the no monies part mean you can't charge money for the act of
distributing libcompface?
It seems obvious to me. Is there some reason you have for reading it
another way?
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are also non-free, but passable, though the license is
absurd (there's no reverse-engineering needed, for crying out loud!)
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a freeamp.rpm
including arial.ttf, and - contrary to Debian - they are for-profit.
(3) is the only sane solution, and it needs to be done ASAP.
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laughs at me
, or do
they have to go in non-free too? (And if they can go in contrib,
should I split z81get into a fifth package so that it can go in
contrib too?)
You have to find a copy of the actual license. I don't think Debian
can include it without an actual copy of the license.
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David
to be bound by all of its terms and conditions.
This is the only part that seems non-free. If I read this right, it's
a restriction on distribution Debian can't satisfy even in non-free; we
would have to make sure anyone we distributed to agreed before we gave
them a copy.
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notice.
This is the only thing that's unusual, and I don't see why it would
be non-DFSG-free. (It might be unenforcable, but that's his problem.)
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them to be distributed
under the same terms as the license implies being able to restrict people
from distributing them under different terms; the patch clause (#4)) are
specified in the DFSG.
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Recovering from a hard drive crash - website down
fine.
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And crawling, on the planet's face, some insects called the human race.
Lost in space, lost in time, and meaning.
-- RHPS
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, particularly suited or not. If you don't like the license,
then ask the author to change it. No need for formality.
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And crawling, on the planet's face, some insects called the human race.
Lost in space, lost in time, and meaning.
-- RHPS
text). Also as a pragmatic
issue, we need the rights to redistrubite at no cost, on any media and
sell the document on CD's.
If some one needs free document licenses, why don't we just point them
to GNU?
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(You see, the best way to solve
: program support).
Violates DFSG #5 (Fields of Endeavor: commerical purposes).
You might want to point out how vague commerical purposes is. If it
can't be used in a buisness, then that's a big issue.
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(You see, the best way to solve
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