Re: license clarification for IRRToolSet

2003-08-27 Thread Joerg Wendland
Branden Robinson, on 2003-08-26, 15:16, you wrote: > It's probably good enough for the Release Manager as-is... Now what do you mean with that? Joerg -- Joerg "joergland" Wendland GPG: 51CF8417 FP: 79C0 7671 AFC7 315E 657A F318 57A3 7FBD 51CF 8417 pgpmlS5F4fROB.pgp Description: PGP signature

license clarification for IRRToolSet

2003-08-26 Thread Joerg Wendland
Hi *, what do you make of that? IRRToolSet is the Internet Routing Registry Toolset from RIPE containing very useful tools for admins of autonomous systems. I am pondering packaging it, so I took a look at its license and found that each source file contains two copyright statements and licenses.

Re: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?

2003-08-22 Thread Joerg Wendland
Joe Moore, on 2003-08-22, 07:50, you wrote: > You said: > > I think the sky is green, and pigs can fly. > > See? You should have licensed your email message so that no one could > modify your comments to "put words in your mouth". I do see, yes. But that's why I sign each message ;-) Joerg --

Re: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?

2003-08-22 Thread Joerg Wendland
MJ Ray, on 2003-08-22, 13:53, you wrote: > I cannot tell what "that" refers to, sorry. My example was why your > argument holds for programs too. Doesn't mean I agree with it. Sorry for my english, "that" should have referred to "example", read "the example was nothing else than an example ..."

Re: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?

2003-08-22 Thread Joerg Wendland
Matthew Garrett, on 2003-08-22, 13:09, you wrote: > As previously pointed out, the same is true of software. I could insert > anti-semetic messages into pam-pgsql and NMU it now. Perhaps you should > change your license? No, you didn't get it. What I wrote before was example for why invariant. sec

Re: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?

2003-08-22 Thread Joerg Wendland
MJ Ray, on 2003-08-22, 13:10, you wrote: > that section. Does that mean my program is free software too, in your > opinion? After all, all your arguments seem to hold for it equally > well and programs and documentation-on-disk are just different types > of software. software != documentation

Re: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?

2003-08-22 Thread Joerg Wendland
Brian T. Sniffen, on 2003-08-21, 19:15, you wrote: > Wouldn't it be better, then, to say that you don't think the GFDL > meets the DFSG, but that you think it shouldn't have to? Certainly, > you don't appear to believe that the GFDL both should have to meet the > DFSG and does so. The DFSG does _

Re: SURVEY: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?

2003-08-21 Thread Joerg Wendland
Matthew Garrett, on 2003-08-21, 16:13, you wrote: > Oh, now, come on. The GFDL plainly /isn't/ compatible with the DFSG. > Whether or not it /has/ to be compatible with the DFSG in order to be in > Debian is an entirely separate issue, but the above is obviously not > true. I was asked for my opin

Re: SURVEY: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?

2003-08-21 Thread Joerg Wendland
> Part 1. DFSG-freeness of the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 > > Please mark with an "X" the item that most closely approximates your > opinion. Mark only one. > > [ ] The GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.2, as published > by the Free Software Foundation, is not a

Re: msession copyright

2003-08-03 Thread Joerg Wendland
Jakob Bohm, on 2003-08-02, 14:52, you wrote: > Glad to help out Matthew Palmer, on 2003-08-03, 10:06, you wrote: > In short, I see nothing DFSG-non-free in the licence. Thank you both for your views, Joerg -- Joerg "joergland" Wendland GPG: 51CF8417 FP: 79C0 7671 AFC7 315E 657A F318 57A3 7FB

msession copyright

2003-08-02 Thread Joerg Wendland
Hi fellows, I am going to package msession[0], a session data manager that can be used for PHP. It has a dependency on a library called phoenix[1], from the same author. msession is GPL and phoenix is LGPL. The problem lurks in the README file of phoenix: "This library is being made available to

Re: Debian Free Software License?

2003-04-17 Thread Joerg Wendland
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS, on 2003-04-17, 14:41, you wrote: > It might undermine the DFSG if Debian were to recommend its own > licences. Sure, but I did not say "recommend a license" but having a license that does not only fit the DFSG but reflects the DFSG and Debian's sense of free software in gener

Debian Free Software License?

2003-04-17 Thread Joerg Wendland
Hi fellows, is there anything like a Debian Free Software License? A license that is modelled after the DFSG? For me as free software developer, that would be a nice to have. I couldn't find a discussion about something similar in the list archives. Is this worth a discussion? Regarding the latest