Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
message ;-) ). They will be run on the other side of the abstraction (call it bus or network). The ROM for an Amiga, Atari or similar machine _does_ get used directly by your PC's CPU. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)1451-2244 / 5554-9450 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerp

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Gunnar Wolf
g the copyright on my GPL software I > would file in US district court. Does law apply extraterritorially? I don't think so. If he is infringing your copyright in Indonesia, you can sue him in Indonesia - Or get him extradited somehow. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)1451-2

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Gunnar Wolf
obably pay, but probably I can get somebody who will not rip me too much. If I have to pay for a Finnish lawyer who knows Finnish law (and I might only talk Tagalo - Probably no Finnish lawyers speak Tagalo!), well... you see, it is a bit unfair to me, as I have no means of defending myself! -- Gun

Re: Debian and the GNU Free documentation license

2003-10-06 Thread Gunnar Wolf
our document was *much* more readable than the one I printed to read while on the bys, with no CSS in order to make itbehave :) -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-05-01 Thread Gunnar Wolf
nts. Of course, arbitrary modification is _not_ allowed (need I explain why? :-) After all, the documents are a published standard, not something to play on). They are _not_ DFSG-free. Now, about implementing them... You can implement them freely, and put your implementations under a DFSG-fr

Re: Distributability of Ruby's PDF::Writer

2007-11-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
John Halton dijo [Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 11:53:29PM +]: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:11:19PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Gunnar Wolf: > > > > > 2- This is the main reason I contact -legal: The short license > > >regarding the Adobe PostScrip

Distributability of Ruby's PDF::Writer

2007-11-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ruby-extras/packages-wip/libpdf-writer-ruby/trunk/debian/copyright?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: patents on Frets on Fire, Pydance, StepMania and such games

2008-01-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ts a button/key/mouse click as the target(s) > crosses that point or line, and gets points. > """ > > Any thoughts on that? Yup. It sounds very much like Space Invaders to me. Space Invaders was written in 1978 [1], so any patents on it must have already expired. Or it quali

Re: Questions about liblouis

2008-02-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_license#Terms - Also must be modified by each project [6] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html [7] http://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4

Re: Questions about liblouis

2008-02-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
hould _not_ require you to publish the changes. What does "publicly available" mean? To every user of your version of the program? Then, ok. But to every person who wants them? No, that's non-free. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB

Re: RFS: teeworlds

2008-04-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
and relicenses under a non-free license... It's better for him to abandon a license with such stupid claims. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF

Re: about software patents

2008-11-26 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ue ;-) But cross your fingers. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: License issue on tiny Javascript fragment

2009-02-09 Thread Gunnar Wolf
e alternative, such as API names) how the program > functions, you have not made a derivative work. If you confuse patents and copyright, it might be true. However, copyright deals with the exact, specific implementation ("materalization") of ideas or other creative forms, not the ideas

Re: GFDL 1.1 or later

2009-03-31 Thread Gunnar Wolf
that's one of the reasons why in debian/copyright we must acknowledge the licensing for the work we do in debian/* Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF --

Re: Bug#531040: ITP: xvidcore -- High quality ISO MPEG4 ASP codec library

2009-05-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
licensing scheme for his work. The original author can choose to use GPL plus an extra restriction — Any subsequent modifier or repackager, however, cannot place similar restrictions. So, here the question is whether the restriction was added by those files' authors or by the xvidcore team. -- Gunn

Re: question about Good/Evil in a license

2009-09-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ls). Legal documents must be as unambiguous as possible. Forbiding somebody to be "evil" equals putting everybody in a single moral schema. And that is evil. (Hence the license forbids the author form redistributing his own software under said license? Hmm... Shutup! I said this would be in a

Re: Skype/Facebook trademark logos in Debian packages

2009-11-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
s - To the untrained eye, Pidgin could perfectly pass for the MSN, ICQ, Gmail or whatnot client. And if the program appears functionally close to the official one and has the official logo, it smells like a trademark breach in my book. -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-224

Re: Skype/Facebook trademark logos in Debian packages

2009-11-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
e to draw a very-similar-but-not-identical Firefox logo, its copyright would be mine, but I would be breaching their trademark. -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: ms-sys contains MBRs which are copyrighted by Microsoft

2010-04-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ted source etc and exit".) Humm... and given the search space is just giant (and not mindboggingly huge), you could even add a loop that generates a random 446-byte-long content until it matches the md5sum and the sha1sum for said file? -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154

BOLA not advisable

2011-01-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Charles Plessy dijo [Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 02:59:04PM +0900]: > (...) > licenses of the family of the MIT or the BSD require to to reproduce copyright > statements on derivatives, and I think that it would cause headaches to many > to > attempt to seriously comply with them. We are blessed that a l

Re: FYI: Creative Commons 4.0 process starts

2011-12-13 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Stefano Zacchiroli dijo [Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:26:09AM +0100]: > > I hope Debian folks (especially ftpmasters) will be willing to > > subscribe to the cc-licenses list and help ensure that the CC 4.0 > > licenses will be suitable for Debian. > (...) > So, to turn this into something even more use

Re: Qt Eclipse integration license (discriminating against group of users)

2012-02-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Jakub Adam dijo [Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 08:29:49PM +0100]: > Hi, > > I'm working on a package for Eclipse Qt Integration [1]. Some of the source > files come with following license: > (…) > ** Linux(R) users may use this file under the terms of the GNU Lesser > ** General Public License Agreement ve

Re: Creative Commons 4.0 BY-NC-SA draft available

2012-04-09 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Paul Wise dijo [Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 01:17:29AM +0800]: > Sadly Creative Commons are still peddling non-free licenses :( > > https://lwn.net/Articles/490202/ Right... Well, and I must admit something here in public: When the CC 4.0 draft process started¹ on December 2011, I volunteered to follow

Re: No source code for wesnoth-music

2012-04-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Francesco Poli dijo [Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 07:57:39PM +0200]: > > > but anybody else breaches the GPL 2 or 3 by not offering source code. > > > > ... but I tend to disagree at this point. Despite the possibility of > > considering these file types as source code for the relevant purposes under > >

Re: Attribution with CC-BY-SA 3.0

2012-09-01 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Zoot Zoot dijo [Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 10:36:03PM +0200]: > (...) > We've recently found out that someone is selling (...) > our concern is that this particular vendor does so in a misleading manner, > without stating that the game is a development version, full of bugs and > missing many of the feat

Re: about CC licenses

2013-07-15 Thread Gunnar Wolf
d one; the program is clearly non-free, but no > security is obtained, since what matters is (technically) guaranteeing > that the publicly visible source really corresponds to what is being > executed on the voting system, not that nobody is legally able to > create modified versions o

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-09-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Ben Finney dijo [Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 08:56:59AM +1000]: > > Really, by now the regulars here all know what you think about various > > licenses and, frankly, we don't care to hear about it any more. > > Is this forum only for the regulars, then? Much of the value would, IMO, > be for newcomers ra

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-09-03 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Miriam Ruiz dijo [Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 08:43:22AM +0200]: > I wasn't planning on participating in this discussion but, as you said, it > has gotten so out of proportions that I thought it wouldn't be that bad > after all. I share Charles' and Gunnar's point of view, I appreciate > Francesco's con

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-09-03 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Steve Langasek dijo [Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 08:13:30PM -0700]: > (...) > Since Francesco has made it clear that he has no intention to stop his > abusive use of debian-legal (see below) or even recognize why his behavior > is problematic, I am asking the listmasters to ban him from this mailing > lis

Re: Artwork License for package in main

2014-01-01 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Dimitry Polivaev dijo [Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 02:05:06AM +0100]: > >Copyright != Licensing != Trademark usage > > Thank you very much. I want to prove my understanding: > > if we just declare and use some picture as our logo it identifies > the project even if the picture is licensed as e.g. CC3+ b

Re: FYI: debian-legal is discussing the inclusion in the Debian archive of "erotic" interactive fiction depicting the sexual abuse of children

2014-03-13 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Sam Kuper dijo [Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 08:56:18PM +]: > That's because there's a big difference between: > > (A) 'Deciding to not include a copy of some "literary discussion" in a > GNU/Linux distribution' (this can be fair enough, as I said earlier); > and > > (b) deciding 'legal and literary

Re: Re: FYI: debian-legal is discussing the inclusion in the Debian archive of "erotic" interactive fiction depicting the sexual abuse of children

2014-03-13 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Jo Shields dijo [Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:34:59PM +]: > Let's be very, very, very clear then. > > This is a game where you play a paedophile. The aim is to rape local > little girls, whilst evading the authorities. Success is rewarded with > graphic scenes of sex with children, failure with bei

Re: License for xxd in vim-common

2015-01-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Pablo Duboue dijo [Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 05:00:07PM -0500]: > Hi, > > I recently learn to use this handy hexdump tool, xxd. It is > distributed as part of vim-common and it has the following license: > >(c) 1990-1997 by Juergen Weigert > > >Distribute freely and credit me,

Re: Free as in speech, but not as in beer

2015-04-04 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Alessandro Rubini dijo [Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 08:20:34AM +0200]: > (...) > The real problem is we lack sustainable commercial models for free > software. No wonder independent developers are fewer and fewer: those > who are not employed by big corps (G, RH, LF) do free software in > their spare tim

Re: Free as in speech, but not as in beer

2015-04-04 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Paul van der Vlis dijo [Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 12:12:25PM +0200]: > > No they aren't. The source that CentOS uses is modified to remove > > references to Red Hat. > > Debian has to change the source of Firefox and Thunderbird too. > Does that make it nonfree software? I don't think so. Remember we

Re: Free as in speech, but not as in beer

2015-04-05 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Paul van der Vlis dijo [Sun, Apr 05, 2015 at 10:16:57AM +0200]: > >> Maybe because of this discussion the developer has decided to remove > >> the 5 user limitation, and to replace it by some "user limit exceeded" > >> messages in the webinterface of the program. You can use the program > >> with t

Re: inquery about "GPL with commercial exception"

2015-10-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Francesco Poli dijo [Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 11:50:53PM +0200]: > I personally think it is indeed relevant. > > Let me try to explain. > The term "further restrictions" is meant "with respect to the > GPL terms", not "with respect to GPL terms + any terms added by the > copyright holder". > Hence rel

Re: Are these copyright notices compatible with GPLv2+?

2016-01-20 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Guilherme Brondani Torri dijo [Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 02:01:06PM +0100]: > (...) > //3. Users agree to obey all government restrictions governing > //redistribution or export of the software. Others already jumped at this. I'll just point it is a non-sequitur. First, it does not say _which_ governme

Re: Is the RAR archiver freely distributable?

2016-11-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Dmitry Alexandrov dijo [Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 12:19:19AM +0300]: > >> > If so I will consider whether to write a cracker or key generator for > >> > RAR and upload it to unstable! > >> > >> Do you really belive that *this* is acceptable? This kind of > >> software (‘cracks’ at least) is illegal in

Re: Github TOS effecting change to copylefts?

2017-03-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Ben Finney dijo [Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 03:16:55AM +1100]: > "kmarsc...@ellemsoftware.com kmarsc...@ellemsoftware.com" > writes: > > > I see it as overhyped and exaggerated. > > What is “it”? Whose position are you characterising as overhype and > exaggeration? > > > I'm sure the FSF is simply tr

Re: DFSG-compatibility of a overly short license [tensorflow dependency]

2018-08-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Lumin dijo [Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 01:07:54PM +]: > Hi debian-legal, > > The license for the last libtensorflow.so dependency is very confusing > because it looks quite incomplete, or exetremely overly simplified. > > > https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/third_party/fft2d/LICE

Re: DFSG-compatibility of a overly short license [tensorflow dependency]

2018-08-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Andrej Shadura dijo [Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 08:24:42AM +0200]: > >> > https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/third_party/fft2d/LICENSE > >> > > >> > Copyright(C) 1997,2001 Takuya OOURA (email: oo...@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp). > >> > You may use, copy, modify this code for any purpose and >

Re: GPL2 + required to have the place to get the recent version

2019-11-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Samuel Henrique dijo [Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 11:35:12PM +]: > Hello legal, > > So I stumbled upon this rather interesting case of a software licensed by > GPL2 but with an extra "clause" to it: > " > # If you enclose this script or parts of it in your software, it has to > # be accompanied by th

Re: Store Wikimedia Commons picture of the day and description

2022-11-26 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Patrice Coni dijo [Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 06:38:52PM +0100]: > Dear debian-legal people, > > I develop a software that downloads the daily photo of Wikimedia Commons > will > set it as wallpaper on a X11 desktop environment. The software does download > and store the picture in a directory. > The im