BSD license + should

2019-11-24 Thread Michael Banck
(please CC me on replies) Hi, I came across the Molspin package [1], which has a standard BSD 3-clause license plus this following fourth clause[2,3]: |4. Every use of the source code or binary form of the software should |acknowledge the following publication: | | MolSpin - Flexible and

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-04 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 06:39:30AM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Michael Banck mba...@debian.org wrote: People have pointed out upthread that Oracle does not appear to be the sole copyright holder of BerkelyDB. So unless they had copyright assignments

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-04 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 12:29:36PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Michael Banck mba...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 06:39:30AM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: From my understanding, the other copyright holders' opinion doesn't really matter – even

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-03 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 02:48:18PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: If the relicensing is real and not another misconfiguration of the build/release system (like with MySQL docs), this sounds like a shakedown for proprietary users of Berkeley DB. GPLv2-licensed users are collateral damage.

Re: ELPA license, LGPL + additional restrictions

2012-12-15 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 08:31:57PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: After thinking about this some more, I guess their fear might be that people modify and redistribute their ELPA library as part of a bigger GPL project. As the LGPL-GPL relicensing seems to be a one-way street, they might

Re: ELPA license, LGPL + additional restrictions

2012-11-03 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 04:13:09PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: - In point 2., clause b) - stating that that you may redistribute under the terms of the plain GNU GPL - shall NOT apply. In other words, if you redistribute, you MUST keep the additional permissions of the LGPL v3

ELPA license, LGPL + additional restrictions

2012-11-02 Thread Michael Banck
(Please CC me on replies, as I am not subscribed currently). The development version (not in testing/unstable for now) of cp2k, which is under the GPLv2+ itself has just added support for the ELPA library: http://cp2k.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cp2k?revision=12491view=revision ELPA's homepage

Re: ELPA license, LGPL + additional restrictions

2012-11-02 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, thanks for your answer. On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 04:49:08PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: On Fri, 2 Nov 2012 16:13:10 +0100 Michael Banck wrote: The development version (not in testing/unstable for now) of cp2k, which is under the GPLv2+ itself has just added support for the ELPA library

Re: ELPA license, LGPL + additional restrictions

2012-11-02 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 05:37:55PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: On Fri, 2 Nov 2012 17:23:43 +0100 Michael Banck wrote: In that case, I will bring it up with the CP2K maintainers. They do not distribute binaries though, only a source repository and sometimes release tarballs

Re: DRAFT for a GR proposal concerning the Sarge release

2004-04-28 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 10:36:20AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: [I think I really should have sent this originally to -legal... feel free to send it back over there if you think it's more appropriate.[1]] M-F-T (hopefully correctly) set. On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Michael Banck wrote: I would

OpenPBS license revisited

2004-02-11 Thread Michael Banck
/2001/debian-legal-200107/msg00035.html -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html

Re: OpenPBS license revisited

2004-02-11 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 06:41:57PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: Could somebody please review the license again and state whether it is DFSG-free or not? Hmm, please also notice that I'm interested in packaging Torque[1], a fork of OpenPBS with modifications by supercluster.org, so I'd

Re: OpenPBS license revisited

2004-02-11 Thread Michael Banck
, and information. Blech, as we all know. Blech, as in: Yuck, but still DFSG conforming? Thanks for the input. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html

Re: New MP3 License Terms Demand $0.75 Per Decoder

2002-08-29 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, FYI, the Heise-Newsticker got a story[0] about this as well this morning with a statement from Thomson: --8-- Statement from Thomson Multimedia, mp3 Licensing: In a posting appearing Tuesday August 27, 2002 on the Web site 'slashdot.org', an individual cited a change in the mp3 license fee

Re: Cactvs-license

2001-09-16 Thread Michael Banck
Hello again, On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:01:20PM -0500, David Starner wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:02:02PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: This is part of my distribution agreement with the university - I am not allowed to distribute the software to companies without a fee (which mainly

Re: Cactvs-license

2001-09-14 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:39:43PM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: I don't think so. Does the author just provide one big, fat, executable? It sounds like there are other parts with an assumed directory structure. That would prevent you, for example, from putting documentation in a separate

Re: Cactvs-license

2001-09-14 Thread Michael Banck
Thanks for your answers! On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 09:07:24PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:39:43PM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: However, you said that the author is resposive. At a minimum, I think that the paragraph The tool set can be distributed as part of

Cactvs-license

2001-09-13 Thread Michael Banck
Hello, I'd like to package CACTVS, a framework of chemical applications. (so far mostly a structure editor, but there aren't many decent of those around for Linux...) The license is clearly not DFSG-compliant, however, I'd like to know if I could even upload this to non-free: --- snip --- This