Re: Microsoft Bing or Windows Spotlight daily picture as wallpaper?

2022-10-12 Thread Eloi
El 9/10/22 a les 13:08, Patrice Coni ha escrit: Dear debian-legal people, I develop a software that downloads the daily picture from Bing or Windows Spotlight and set it as wallpaper on a X11 desktop environment. Bing or Windows Spotlight are features of Microsoft. The daily picture is

Re: anti-tarball clause and GPL

2019-07-25 Thread Eloi
El 24/7/19 a les 22:28, Florian Weimer ha escrit: > * Adam Borowski: > >> In the light of the currently discussed GR proposal, I wonder if the >> following license clause would be considered DFSG-free and GPL-compatible: >> >> ## >> I do not consider a flat tarball to be a

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-21 Thread Eloi
El 21/3/19 a les 11:17, Giacomo Tesio ha escrit: > So why do you think that this is a "toxic precedent"? No free software could run under Windows without proper Microsoft licensing: Firefox, Libreoffice... No free software could use or implement compatible Windows services, either server or

Patent discussion on debian-legal (Was: Hacking License)

2018-12-13 Thread Eloi Notario
El 12/12/18 a les 16:06, Ian Jackson ha escrit: > As for the first link, it says only > | Copyright, licensing and patent issues > | Discussions about legality issues such as copyrights, patents etc. > > which IMO accurately describes the scope of the list within Debian. IIRC there was a

Re: Hacking License

2018-12-13 Thread Eloi
El 11/12/18 a les 23:46, Paul Jakma ha escrit: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2018, Eloi Notario wrote: > >> Furthermore, these patches will be protected by the GPLv3 and even if >> publicly available Sencha will be unable to sell them, > > Probably you know this, and you mean

Re: Hacking License

2018-12-11 Thread Eloi
El 11/12/18 a les 22:33, Giacomo ha escrit: > On December 11, 2018 7:54:16 PM UTC, Eloi Notario wrote: >> El 11/12/18 a les 9:53, Giacomo Tesio ha escrit: >>> [...] >>> 2. If ExtJs was a Derived Work of a software release under the >> Hacking >>> Licen

Re: Hacking License

2018-12-11 Thread Eloi Notario
El 11/12/18 a les 9:53, Giacomo Tesio ha escrit: > [...] > 2. If ExtJs was a Derived Work of a software release under the Hacking > License, Sencha would have no right to keep any version proprietary. Being Sencha the copyright owner (noting for clarity as I cut that from the quote), I am quite

Re: Github TOS effecting change to copylefts?

2017-03-08 Thread Eloi
El 08/03/17 a les 08:24, Mike Hommey ha escrit: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 07:46:29AM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>> On Tue, 7 Mar 2017, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >>> The best analysis of this situation I have read so far is the one in >>> Noodles' blog: >>>

Re: Legal issues with haskell-unix-time

2016-05-26 Thread Eloi
El 24/05/16 a les 12:36, Dmitry Bogatov ha escrit: > There is 'cbits/conv.c' in 'haskell-unix-time' source package, which > is probably is of same copyright, as haskell code (BSD-3-clause), > but there is part of it, that is explicitly marked as all-rights-reserved. > No email is provided. This