Re: GCC 4.4 run-time license and non-GPLv3 compilers

2009-12-07 Thread Matthias Klose
On 22.11.2009 19:49, Florian Weimer wrote: * Matthias Klose: On 21.11.2009 06:20, Florian Weimer wrote: * Steve Langasek: It's been suggested to me that it might help Debian move forward on this issue if I provide some background on why Canonical has chosen to not regard this issue

Re: GCC 4.4 run-time license and non-GPLv3 compilers

2009-08-20 Thread Matthias Klose
On 16.08.2009 10:50, Luk Claes wrote: Matthias Klose wrote: On 29.04.2009 04:49, Florian Weimer wrote: * Florian Weimer: I've asked the FSF for a clarification (the second time, the first clarification resulted in the Java bytecode exception). Until we know for sure how to interpret

Re: GCC 4.4 run-time license and non-GPLv3 compilers

2009-07-20 Thread Matthias Klose
On 29.04.2009 04:49, Florian Weimer wrote: * Florian Weimer: I've asked the FSF for a clarification (the second time, the first clarification resulted in the Java bytecode exception). Until we know for sure how to interpret the exception, it's probably best not to make GCC 4.4 the default

Re: default gfortran in debian

2009-06-20 Thread Matthias Klose
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi schrieb: [I posted this on debian-gcc before. I have not gotten any reply there. So I am trying my luck here] Currently the default gfortran in Debian Sid points to 4:4.3.3-9 . The gfortran-4.4 is already available, quite stable. Is there any reason why gfortran 4.4

feedback on #516997 missing

2009-03-21 Thread Matthias Klose
The bug submitter of #516997 apparently did ask for help on debian-legal before submitting this report, but didn't give any feedback on the upstream response. Please could the people involved with this followup on this report? thanks, Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Bug#498477: GPL-compatiblity of python licenses

2008-09-28 Thread Matthias Klose
severity 498857 important severity 498477 important thanks I don't know the real implication on the license if you're unsure then don't make it RC in the first place reopen 498857 reopen 498477 thanks OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du vendredi 19 septembre 2008, vers 00:53, Thomas

Re: Antique RC bugs (many about licensing)

2006-03-18 Thread Matthias Klose
Package: libstdc++6-4.0-doc (required; Debian GCC Maintainers et al.) [gcc-4.0/4.0.2-9 ; 4.0.2-10] [add/edit comment] 321780 [ ] [NONFREE-DOC:GFDL1.1] contains non-free documentation These bugs were reconfirmed as RC by the recent GR. Matthias Klose has said he's working on them

Re: Bug#293932: profile.py has non-free license

2005-02-07 Thread Matthias Klose
[debian-legal, how do other packages handle the md5 stuff?] Joe Wreschnig writes: Package: python Severity: serious The license for the Python profiler[0] does not allow it to be copied or modified independently of other Python programs. This is a violation of DFSG #3 (and also is just

Re: Bug#284190: ITP: drdsl -- DSL Assistant for AVM DSL/ISDN-Controllers

2005-01-08 Thread Matthias Klose
Josh Triplett writes: I asked to clarify the paragraph, the current text now has append and the terms of the LGPL. The Proprietary Source Software, which is delivered in object code format only, such as the .o files, shall in no event be disassembled, reverse engineered, decompiled or

Re: Bug#284190: ITP: drdsl -- DSL Assistant for AVM DSL/ISDN-Controllers

2005-01-07 Thread Matthias Klose
Josh Triplett writes: Matthias Klose wrote: CC'ing debian-legal, please could you have a look at the license? The question being is this acceptable to go into non-free? exactly. [...] Up to this point, the license seems acceptable for non-free; it seems to permit redistribution

Bug#284190: ITP: drdsl -- DSL Assistant for AVM DSL/ISDN-Controllers

2004-12-04 Thread Matthias Klose
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist CC'ing debian-legal, please could you have a look at the license? * Package name: drdsl Version : 1.0.3 Upstream Author : AVM * URL : http://www.avm.de/ * License : non-free, see below Description: DSL Assistant for AVM

Bug#280803: libgcc1: contains non-free GNU FDL

2004-11-11 Thread Matthias Klose
Brian M. Carlson writes: Package: libgcc1 Version: 1:4.0-0pre0 Severity: serious The copyright file includes a copy of the GNU Free Documentation License, which has been judged by debian-legal to be non-free. Please remove the non-free material from the package or move the package to

Re: Bug#200003: cpp: contains non-free manpages

2003-07-05 Thread Matthias Klose
Henning Makholm writes: Scripsit Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpl(7): that can be replaced with a reference to /usr/share/misc/common-licenses gfdl(7): that's included (as text, rather than a tagged manpage) in /usr/share/cpp-3.3/copyright already, and is therefore redundant

Re: Bug#200003: cpp: contains non-free manpages

2003-07-04 Thread Matthias Klose
Andrew Suffield writes: Package: cpp Severity: serious The manpages fsf-funding(7), gpl(7), and gfdl(7) are included in the cpp package. These are clearly non-free (non-modifiable). this doesn't make sense. you are not allowed to change a copyright, even for software distributed in main.

Re: ITP: ibm-jdk1.1-installer

1999-10-25 Thread Matthias Klose
Yannick Jestin writes: On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:48:21AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: It lloks like the blackdown JDK has to be removed (according to the weekly bug summary). As an alternative I would like to package an installer for the ibm-jdk1.1 machine. Why not include

Re: ITP: ILU

1999-06-22 Thread Matthias Klose
Jim Pick writes: Torsten Landschoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 07:16:08PM +0200, Bart Schuller wrote: Before you do that, I seem to remember that the license for ILU had been cleared up a couple of months ago. Looking at