Re: Visualboy Advance question.

2004-06-20 Thread Evan Prodromou
"depends" on the data blobs it interprets, in the Debian sense of "dependence". ~ESP -- Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in

2004-06-20 Thread Evan Prodromou
ogram would contain code from the proprietary library. ~ESP -- Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Visualboy Advance question.

2004-06-20 Thread Evan Prodromou
x27;t work* without these ROMs. No matter what "data" ROM you want to run, you need the OS ROMs to do so. I know it may be a fine point, but I'd contrast that with an emulator that is free and self-sufficient, but for which there is no DFSG-free software to run. ~ESP -- Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

historical question about fceu in contrib

2004-06-20 Thread Evan Prodromou
in in the first place? Was it your decision, or did you get advice on the matter from others? Was it just because the game ROMs are usually non-free, or was there other software (such as an operating-system ROM) that was required? Thanks for your help. ~ESP -- Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL P

Re: Visualboy Advance question.

2004-06-22 Thread Evan Prodromou
n closing: I think it's a mistake to leave out Free Software just because there's not Free Data for that software to work with. ~ESP -- Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Visualboy Advance question.

2004-06-22 Thread Evan Prodromou
at? Mind your own beeswax, Debian. ~ESP -- Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Apple's APSL 2.0 " Debian Free Software Guidelines"-compliant?

2004-06-26 Thread Evan Prodromou
hat contracts have to be bilingual nor in the dominant language; just that both parties understand the language of the contract. ~ESP -- Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Apple's APSL 2.0 " Debian Free Software Guidelines"-compliant?

2004-06-27 Thread Evan Prodromou
and. > > It's stupid that this clause has to be in the license in order to > achieve that. I agree; it's much more applicable for contracts. ~ESP -- Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: CC-based proposal (was FDL: no news?)

2004-07-05 Thread Evan Prodromou
ding rather than intention. We could hand this over to Creative Commons with some suggested changes, as well as some information about our project and why having works be DFSG-free is important. ~ESP -- Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: CC-based proposal (was FDL: no news?)

2004-07-06 Thread Evan Prodromou
e I'm not sure if you're on debian-legal. If you are, sorry for the double-post. -- Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Creative Commons license draft summary

2004-07-06 Thread Evan Prodromou
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 19:15, Evan Prodromou wrote: > So, I'd like to write a draft summary for the 6 Creative Commons 2.0 > licenses: So, I've started this summary, http://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary.sxw (and, yes, I'll convert it to HTML and plain text ASA

Re: Creative Commons license draft summary

2004-07-06 Thread Evan Prodromou
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 15:47, MJ Ray wrote: > On 2004-07-06 20:15:25 +0100 Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > included the three main arguments why Attribution 2.0 is non-free > > At least in this context, we should say instead that software released >

Re: Creative Commons license draft summary

2004-07-06 Thread Evan Prodromou
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 17:18, Evan Prodromou wrote: > Section 4a) allows the author to forbid reference to the user. Section > 4b) requires authorship credit. s/the user/themselves/ ~ESP -- Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wikitravel (http://wikitravel.org/) signature.asc Descr

Re: historical question about fceu in contrib

2004-07-08 Thread Evan Prodromou
Branden Robinson wrote: Evan was fishing for support for his position in a recent thread entitled "Visualboy Advance question."[1]. "Some other debian-legal people" appears to refer to Humberto Massa, in one message.[2] To be clear: I was soliciting information, not hu

Re: Visualboy Advance question.

2004-07-08 Thread Evan Prodromou
Francesco Poli wrote: On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:00:47 -0400 Glenn Maynard wrote: I think there's a fairly significant difference between an emulator that will load and display an "insert ROM" image (eg. NES, SNES), and one that requires a specific non-free image in order to be able to do anythi

Re: Visualboy Advance question.

2004-07-08 Thread Evan Prodromou
Branden Robinson wrote: I know it may be a fine point, but I'd contrast that with an emulator that is free and self-sufficient, but for which there is no DFSG-free software to run. A *lot* of old home computer emulators won't be self-sufficient without the ROM, because the environments we

Re: Visualboy Advance question.

2004-07-09 Thread Evan Prodromou
Branden Robinson wrote: I know it may be a fine point, but I'd contrast that with an emulator that is free and self-sufficient, but for which there is no DFSG-free software to run. A *lot* of old home computer emulators won't be self-sufficient without the ROM, because the environments we

Re: GPL-compatible, copyleft documentation license

2004-07-20 Thread Evan Prodromou
Florian Weimer wrote: How? As MJ said, it's clearly "practical" to remove the author's name in places where it would nevertheless be a grievous restriction. So you suggest that if someone approaches Debian and asks his name to be removed, Debian would ignore this request even if it can be ho

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