Re: Problem with font licenses (a2ps bug caused by xfonts-scalable change)

2001-04-01 Thread idalton
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 11:45:29AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Content-Description: message body text > > Gentlemen, > > I received a bug report (#91856) on a2ps for its contributed ogonkify program > which likes to uses Courier font. However, we no longer have those due to a > narrower inter

Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]

2001-04-04 Thread idalton
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:50:06PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > The fact is that it is against the FSF's goals to have the GPL be at all > > modifyable. Given that our goals are similar, we're not likely to declare > > the GPL as non-free. Suggest

DFSG-alikes for non-software? [was Re: DFSG and fonts [was: Bug#91856: Hello]]

2001-04-05 Thread idalton
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:05:31PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:50:06PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > > Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [Reducto ad absurdum: GPL as example to show that maybe it isn't reasonable to apply the DFSG to all kinds of data] Tha

Re: possible ITP: mindterm (somebody, shoot me, please)

2001-04-06 Thread idalton
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 10:58:37AM -0700, Don Marti wrote: > begin Joey Hess quotation of Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 10:15:38AM -0700: > > > Hmm. I guess that means that a copy of the source code should be made > > available from the same web server, to satisfy the GPL. Weird, but > > doable. I don't th

Re: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-04-24 Thread idalton
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:04:06PM -0600, Walter Landry wrote: > Adam J. Richter wrote: > Linus's Linux kernel releases from 2.3.50 through the latest > test release (2.4.4-pre6) contain GPL-incompatible "firmware" images > for "EZUSB" devices in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h, which >

Re: Cohen Cite; Moral Right of Retraction!! RE: Email Archive Request

2001-05-08 Thread idalton
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:39:49AM -0400, James Miller wrote: > > --- Eric Sherrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, but in the _Salinger_ case, these were > > unpublished letters that > > Salinger wished to prevent from being published. > > Usenet posts and public > > mailing list posts a

Re: Macromedia flash and shockwave

2001-05-29 Thread idalton
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 08:52:30PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2001, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > > >On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 05:19:08PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > >> Actually, the installer would go into contrib, unless you're planning to > >> use a non-DFSG-free license for the installer