Re: Packaging a software with moving licence

2005-12-21 Thread Decklin Foster
Florent Bayle writes: does that mean that the licence of this piece of software can change at any time (even for the same release) ? Is it possible to include it in Debian ? The copyright holder can always license the code to anyone, under whatever terms they wish, at any time. Once *you*

Re: Python license

2005-12-14 Thread Decklin Foster
Joe Wreschnig writes: I sent an email to Mark Pilgrim on December 4th asking for clarification on this, but haven't gotten a response yet. Is this assesment accurate? Should I file bugs? Probably. I haven't gotten any responses from him lately either. I'm not entirely sure I have the right

Re: Using debian extended xterminal (dext) as name for a project.

2005-01-01 Thread Decklin Foster
Brian Thomas Sniffen writes: I'm not sure that makes a difference. The mark Debian is a trademark of SPI. You'd like your software to be Free, so why not avoid the trademarked name? Not to put too fine a point on it or anything but... Package: dash Description: The Debian Almquist Shell

Re: ITP: aewm, dagrab

2000-07-29 Thread Decklin Foster
Branden Robinson writes: [Sorry for the personal CC, Not a problem... I think you should probably clarify the antecedent of it in the final sentence of your license. Does it refer to parts of this program's code, or your own software. If the latter, then you have made a viral MIT/X style