MySQL FOSS Exception

2004-07-23 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
program to link the current libmysqlclient instead. See proftpd-mysql for an example of such kind of programs. Comments? -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: MySQL FOSS Exception

2004-07-26 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
most the same problems, but for a better definition of 'Opensource Initiative Compatible'. Anyway, I think that using external references to validate a license is quite weird. They should simply list principia and possibly add a few additional well-known licenses. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

When a product is a derived product?

2004-07-28 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
a 'derived' product can be considered not (or no more) 'derived' (i.e. how much of its code should change) by another one? -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: When a product is a derived product?

2004-07-28 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 05:05:04PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > While working on my little wiki on yardradius, I found something which > could be of interest for this ML. Cistron Radiusd 1.6 is released under > GPL, and pkg description says: Damn it, I joined a thread i

Re: GPL-licensed packages with depend-chain to OpenSSL

2004-08-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
he only upstream which should add the clause is curl one AFAIK, if needed (I don't know what sort of license it uses). If you admit indirect linking vincula, we could probably remove a good portion of main in debian, due to bsd-gpl problem. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: New MySQL "Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) Exception" licence.... (re #242449)

2004-08-24 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
cense can be considered as covered by this FLOSS Exception (1). Can it be considered so on the basis of Open Source Definitioni v 1.9? (2) http://www.mysql.com/products/licensing/foss-exception.html (1) http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php (2) -- Francesco P. Lovergine

GPL versus BSD

2006-03-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
can develop this interaction. > > I'm not saying that we should make GRASS non-GPL, but hoping that we > can find productive avenues to work with other open-source platforms > that are not GPL (expanding the user, developer, and support base as > well as making GR

Re: All rights reserved?

2006-03-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
script has that clause and not a license at all? Wouldn't be considered public domain, I think... This is a real case for a tiny script (published on a web site) whose author is not reachable. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [DebianGIS] GPL versus BSD

2006-03-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:58:25AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > * Changing GRASS license in something different. In no way different from >the double licensing option, indeed. > I missed a non secondary issue: GRASS uses third parties libraries and all that could not be c

EPSG data reviewing in progress [was Re: libgeotiff_1.2.3-1_i386.changes REJECTED]

2007-05-14 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
cations distributed on a commercial basis when the commerciality is based on application functionality and not on a value ascribed to the freely-distributed EPSG dataset. These conditions are currently under review. --- -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DRAFT for a GR proposal concerning the Sarge release

2004-04-28 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
of endeavour, remember :) > Do you think so? If we would seriously concerned on SCO's ideas sarge should release with HURD. And there's always the possibility that SCO or someone else open a issue about it, too. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

RFC: moving from BSD to GPL

2004-06-24 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Is it possible for an upstream to change license from a BSD-old to GPL? Consider the hypothesis that the product is a derivative work with a few old contributors. I see no reasons to do not relicense after adding a credits note as required in the BSD license. Comments? -- Francesco P

Re: Would you please review this non-free license?

2003-01-24 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:11:06AM -0700, Kevin Rosenberg wrote: > Good points -- I'll fill a bug against ftp.debian.org to remove the > package. > Probably it could be converted in an installer. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

mod_ldap for proftpd is now post-card licensed (proftpd 1.2.7+)...

2003-01-30 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
7;t want to send a postcard, send a photograph of your local area or of something geographically close to you that you find interesting. It'll only cost you a dollar or two. Please do me a favor and send it. Any hints -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: mod_ldap for proftpd is now post-card licensed (proftpd 1.2.7+)...

2003-01-30 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 01:06:22PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > Any hints are welcome :) -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: mod_ldap for proftpd is now post-card licensed (proftpd 1.2.7+)...

2003-01-31 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
> restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. > > ^^ > > Yes, but that doesn't bind the author (assuming that he has the sole > copyrigt on the program). > He's the only copyleft holder. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

mod_ldap licensing issues

2003-01-31 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
d-hoc GPL-like modified license which contains also the postcard req. Or eventually drop that requirement. You could follow and contribute to the current discussion about this issue on debian-legal: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200301/msg00241.html -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Update to [mod_ldap for proftpd is now post-card licensed (proftpd 1.2.7+)]

2003-03-06 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
avoided... Hints? -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: PHP-Nuke: A calling for votes

2003-03-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 07:16:07PM +0100, Hugo Espuny wrote: > a) "Move it to non-free" That's my opinion. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

MySQL-OpenSSL linking, news by MySQL team.about licensing

2003-04-02 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Dear all we have some news about #167747 which is potentially of interest of all packages which links OpenSSL libraries and MySQL libraries. MySQL libraries currently are plain GPL, NOT LGPL as someone thought. Stay tuned. -- Francesco P. Lovergine --- Begin Message --- Dear Francesco

Re: MySQL-OpenSSL linking, news by MySQL team.about licensing

2003-04-02 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:59:32PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mer 02/04/2003 ` 13:26, Francesco P. Lovergine a icrit : > > Dear all > > > > we have some news about #167747 which is potentially of interest > > of all packages which links OpenSSL li

RFC: Myricom GM message passing system packaging

2002-07-18 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
stuff. My best guess is to create a debconf interface to ask for user's kernel-source and config file in order to run the correct 'make dep' and possibly create on-fly the right binary deb file. This is inspired to 'plex86' strategy. Comments? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]