Re: AbiWord, trademarks, and DFSG-freeness

2004-10-17 Thread D. Starner
Jacobo Tarrio wrote: Oops, I have just thought of a case where it isn't so, at least in Spain. The Spanish trade mark law allows the owner of a trademark to prohibit its removal from a product. That's true in the US, too; http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forum/forumnew112.php says: In order to

Re: Web application licenses

2004-07-30 Thread D. Starner
people are eager to use a proprietary language where you have to submit all your code to the company? If the website invokes a bash script that invokes sed, recode, GCC, gas and ld, which if any of those seven programs did the user directly interact with? David Starner -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Help about texture inclueded in stellarium

2004-07-20 Thread D. Starner
The international copyright treaties, if I am not mistaken, only grant copyrights to works which are capable of being subject to copyright in their 'home countries'. It's not that simple. The US, for one, recognizes copyrights on works under copyright under US law that aren't in copyright

Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL

2004-07-19 Thread D. Starner
and ask you if you were watching. Are you really advocating that someone commit perjury in that case? David Starner -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ___ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL

2004-07-19 Thread D. Starner
; furthermore what is now not legally binding may be so in the future. As copyrights last life+70, this might be tried by Emperor Louis XXXI, Duke of Mississippi, King of France, Emperor of Greater Eurasia. Or by a strictly literal computer judge. David Starner -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#227159: ocaml: Worse, the QPL is not DFSG-free

2004-07-19 Thread D. Starner
not wanting to give the modification back to upstream and thus to the community at large. I'm happy giving back to the community at large. I'm not happy giving back to anyone who demands the capability to take my modifications proprietary, especially not if they won't give me the same options.

Re: Bug#227159: ocaml: Worse, the QPL is not DFSG-free

2004-07-19 Thread D. Starner
after you (plural and impersonal you) all dragged me into this mud pit I've have watched many extended arguments, and participated in many myself. When I get involved in an argument like you have, it's a clear sign I have too much time on my hands or I'm avoiding work. If you are concerned

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

2004-07-06 Thread D. Starner
Now, the whole idea of applying the same freeness criteria to what I call non-software content, looks like a complete nonsense to me, Can we give it up? We've had at least a year of discussion on this subject, then a vote, then long flame-wars all over the place, then another vote, since people

Re: Is SystemC license compatible with the GPL ?

2004-05-06 Thread D. Starner
gcc is LGPL. Diego I don't know where you got that idea, but it's wrong. Some of the libraries may be LGPL, but the compiler itself is very much GPL, to the point that RMS doesn't want people adding interfaces that might make it easier to use a GCC frontend by itself without linking to GCC.

Re: Font source Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-30 Thread D. Starner
Stephen Frost writes: Of course it could. Writing an assembler would probably take some serious effort too without knowing that information. To some extent that's my point- are we going to require hardware specifications for anything that uses firmware? Personally I don't think we need to,

Font source Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-29 Thread D. Starner
People have argued that since there exists open source tools for editing fonts, font files should be considered their own source, even if Font Foundries have their own preferred source formats and use propietary tools to create font files via a compilation process. But the TrueType files

Re: Font source Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-29 Thread D. Starner
Stephen Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's not like there's a whole lot of difference between the assembly and the binary in this case. Write a QD disassembler and extract the assembly if you want. Even if we were talking about x86 assembly, there would still be a lot of difference

Re: Cypherpunks anti-License

2004-02-28 Thread D. Starner
On Feb 26, 2004, at 12:35, Branden Robinson wrote: Not true. Governments can (and have) passed legislation to yank a work out of the public domain and put it back under copyright. Anthony DeRobertis wrote in response: cough Mickey Mouse Copyright Extension Act cough No; the MMCEA (or

Re: Plugins, libraries, licenses and Debian

2003-12-10 Thread D. Starner
How then, can someone who tacks on the GPL, because he's seen it before, and it's supposed to be a good choice, know exactly what he really wants? I'm not talking about GNU Readline here, I'm talking about numerous small projects having nothing to do with the FSF and their grand scheme.

Re: GFDL

2003-10-04 Thread D. Starner
Initially, back in 50s-60s-70s all software was free software I've read that while programs may not have been covered by copyright, they were frequently covered by contracts promising the wrath of the selling company if there were copies made. This lead us to the important point. Free

Early Software Free?

2003-10-04 Thread D. Starner
Fedor Zuev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Initially, back in 50s-60s-70s all software was free software. Proprietary software come into being only after computer programs was copyrighted. Computer programs was copyrighted relatively late, in 1976 year in USA, in 1991 year in Russia and maybe even

Re: GFDL

2003-09-30 Thread D. Starner
Fedor Zuev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know many modern (not public domain) political texts of any source, which is freely [unlimited] modifiable? When I first ran across the GPL, it was such a surprising license that I printed it out and showed it to a friend (who was less impressed.)

Re: License requirements for DSP binaries?

2003-09-27 Thread D. Starner
it's extremely questionable to try to interpret preferred form for modification as preferred form for modification, or any form, no matter how unreasonable it is to edit, if the preferred form for modification has been lost. The preferred form for modification is not the form we'd like to

Re: Respect for Upstream Authors and Snippets of Interest

2003-09-27 Thread D. Starner
Mahesh T. Pai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Barak Pearlmutter said on Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 07:31:14PM -0600,: In a recent message to this list, RMS mentioned that people had stated that Debian would remove all non-modifiable but removable text from Debian packages: If Debian does not,

Re: License requirements for DSP binaries?

2003-09-26 Thread D. Starner
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:25:44PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: We should allow it if source code once existed but no longer exists (all the copies of the source code were wiped accidentally at some time in the past). So it's okay to ignore

GFDL

2003-09-22 Thread D. Starner
RMS writes: However, I don't follow the DFSG, nor an interpretation of the DFSG that labels documentation as software; so I don't have an artificial reason to insist on identical criteria for freedom for manuals and for programs. This is not merely an artifical reason. If someone added a

Re: A WDL.

2003-09-18 Thread D. Starner
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 03:44:41PM -0500, D. Starner wrote: I also have no idea what direction to render the text (left-to-right or right-to-left). The standard tells me. There are DFSG-free data files that include all the normative information like this. Run locate UnicodeData -- I

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-09-18 Thread D. Starner
The arguments appear to be: 1) There are many GFDL manuals. 2) The many GFDL manuals would be useful to include. That's two parts out of the three I mentioned, and the third part is crucial. But they are an irrelevant two parts. If Joe Blow writes a license for his program or

Re: A WDL.

2003-09-17 Thread D. Starner
I also have no idea what direction to render the text (left-to-right or right-to-left). The standard tells me. There are DFSG-free data files that include all the normative information like this. Run locate UnicodeData -- I have 5 copies from Debian packages. It's not terribly human-readable,

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-16 Thread D. Starner
If the license for the code did not allow modification, you could not make it implement different behavior. You would substantively lack the ability to change the functionality. That is a lack of real freedom. I fail to see how this differs from an invariant section. (We can't add a change

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-15 Thread D. Starner
The fact that you're talking about a hypothetical example decades away suggests that this is not a major issue. But we can consider the issue anyway. In this case, part of the reason for using a hypothetical is the fact the only people using extended Invariant Sections is the FSF, and it's

Unidentified subject!

2003-09-14 Thread D. Starner
It adds some practical inconvenience, but practically speaking the magnitude is not great, so there's no reason not to do it. Let's say I write a (GPL) compiler for Perl 2045, and someone writing a (GPL) sample implemenation of Fortran 2045 wants to borrow my regex code. They can do so; the

Re: free source code which requires non-free tools to build (dscaler modules for tvtime)

2003-09-09 Thread David Starner
* That which is in main must be buildable and usable solely with packages also in main (IOW, main is a closure); Really? Does that mean that the Windows specific parts of GCC must be removed from the tarball? Or does it only apply to programs, so if coreutils provides a 1k helper program that

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread David Starner
There are just two points in this flow, where intentional (not as side effect of other considerations) efforts (not including no-doing) to remove inapropriate texts can be qualified otherwise: begin (author), and end (reader, user). All other should be considered censorship. So if you get a

Re: Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-27 Thread David Starner
But this is irrelevant. It is enough that _law_ (majority of existed copyright laws) makes this difference. What differences the law, made by people who never heard of free software and probably had their pen guided by people from large proprietary software companies, is of little

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-27 Thread David Starner
Yes, of course. And while copyright _really_, not formally, affects only professional distributors, there was little or no problem with copyright. Problems begins, when copyright grow so large, that it affect the rights and interests of users and authors. I don't understand how copyright has

Re: Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-27 Thread David Starner
Fedor Zuev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If we would have the old, 1904-1912-style copyright laws, there would be much less problems with copyright. For example, the computer software become copyrightable only in the late 70-s - early 90-s, after 30+ years of free existense. And if that

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-25 Thread David Starner
Fedor Zuev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Documentation in not a software. This has been refuted so many times. What about help2man, which turns software into documentation? What about the numerous other times documentation is embedded into source code or source code is embedded into documentation?

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-25 Thread David Starner
Fedor Zuev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But if you take Acrobat, remove, say, the Adobe EULA, and distribute the rest, it will be censorship or, at least, very similar. Because you conceal from users the information from creator, that they reasonable expect to receive from you. Against the will

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-25 Thread David Starner
Fedor Zuev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes How about a license which allowed off-topic code (say, a 'hangman' game in the 'ls' program) which must be present unmodified in source code of all derived versions, and must be invoked (perhaps through a command-line option) by every derived program?

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

2003-08-24 Thread David Starner
Brian T. Sniffen, on 2003-08-22, 13:54, you wrote: [...] Whew, I though this was a list for serious discussion, but some participants obviously have to reach a certain age first... *plonk* Joerg I, for one, didn't find his argument juvenile at all. I agree with him; you answered the

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

2003-08-24 Thread David Starner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 === CUT HERE === 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. [ X ] The GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.2, as published

Re: GPL scripts with a GPL-incompatible interpreter

2002-12-13 Thread starner
For example, the one who ports the program to the proprietary language may do it out of honest desire to make some good free software available in what he sees as an exciting new environment. How does this differ from, say, Emacs on Windows? I'm sure that Emacs has been extended to do some

Re: Documentation licenses (GFDL discussion on debian-legal)

2002-12-04 Thread starner
- the Project gutenberg texts (not that their license is currently free) Their license is moot in sane countries -- the texts are in the public domain. Er, modulo the small percentage of life+50 texts. And modulo Australia, which seems to have rejected Feist, although the case is on appeal to

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-27 Thread starner
Does this mean every unicode text editor belongs in contrib (depends on something non-free)? Many (perhaps all) RFCs are non-free as well; does that mean that compliant implementations must go into contrib or non-free? The problem is, every character in Unicode, all 70,000 of them, has a

Re: New EULA of UnrealIRCd

2002-11-06 Thread David Starner
then it would be correct, but would be wrong if considered in British English. ] ‘affect’ and ‘effect’ is a distinction made by American English — as is ‘insure’ and ‘ensure’, for that matter. I see ‘ensure’ much more often then ‘insure’ in American English. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Great

Re: Aspell-en license Once again.

2002-11-06 Thread starner
Most of people who actually hold the copyrights (if they even claimed any copyright at all, which is doubtful), are unknown and cannot be contacted. Legally, the fact that they are unknown and cannot be contacted is no help; everything I've ever worked with in copyrights indicates that that's a

Re: Aspell-en license Once again.

2002-11-05 Thread David Starner
. [...] That is bullshit. Quit fighting strawmen, or shut up. [...] More BS. Until you can settle down I'm not going to discuss this with you. I notice how you cut your writing which he was replying to. It certainly helped making your response seem justified. -- David Starner - [EMAIL

Re: Aspell-en license Once again.

2002-11-05 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:24:31PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED] I notice how you cut your writing which he was replying to. It certainly helped making your response seem justified. Sorry, justified? What I meant, was that Branden cut all his

Re: Aspell-en license Once again.

2002-11-04 Thread David Starner
wordlists are probably going to have significant differences in the set of words included. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom-- A field where a thousand corpses lie. -- Stephen Crane, War is Kind

Re: Aspell-en license Once again.

2002-11-04 Thread David Starner
‐defined meaning, it has a well‐defined spelling and currently common usage among a reasonably large group of people. That’s a creative decision there. Is ‘virii’ an acceptable spelling? Is ‘bakress’? -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom-- A field where

Re: ldp-es_20002103-7_i386.changes REJECTED

2002-10-31 Thread David Starner
Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom-- A field where a thousand corpses lie. -- Stephen Crane, War is Kind

Re: ldp-es_20002103-7_i386.changes REJECTED

2002-10-29 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:41:29AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 01:30:37PM -0600, David Starner wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 07:06:46PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: Iff the author authorised a translation, the translation *can

Re: ldp-es_20002103-7_i386.changes REJECTED

2002-10-29 Thread starner
If the original GULP is not DSFG-free, I cannot see any way that the document or any translation of it could possibly be allowed in main. The non-freeness of the original document would prevent any translation from being DFSG-free, as I understand U.S. copyright law. I see no reason why you could

Re: ldp-es_20002103-7_i386.changes REJECTED

2002-10-29 Thread starner
So the two copyrights exist together on the translated work. NO! I'm starting to think I do have a communication problem here. Yes, the problem is the law is ambiguious, and we believe we know how it's interpreted. You never did respond to the It's a Wonderful Life case . .

Re: ldp-es_20002103-7_i386.changes REJECTED

2002-10-28 Thread David Starner
with that copyright. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom-- A field where a thousand corpses lie. -- Stephen Crane, War is Kind

Re: Fwd: GNU VCG

2002-10-17 Thread David Starner
-format files, which can be manipulated by other programs (say, an ad-hoc Perl script, or a program from Evil-Evil Soft), they want to link in VCG. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Falshe fridn iz beser vi a rikhtige krig. / A bad peace is better than a good war. - Yiddish Proverb

Re: Fwd: GNU VCG

2002-10-16 Thread David Starner
, might actually use that data in a non-approved way. They might forget to put a license on their perl script, say. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Falshe fridn iz beser vi a rikhtige krig. / A bad peace is better than a good war. - Yiddish Proverb

Re: Free documentation using non-free preprocessor

2002-10-10 Thread David Starner
we'll be doing any real changes to it. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Falshe fridn iz beser vi a rikhtige krig. / A bad peace is better than a good war. - Yiddish Proverb

Re: license questions.

2002-10-09 Thread David Starner
+ 80 years (e.g. Columbia). See http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/okbooks.html. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Falshe fridn iz beser vi a rikhtige krig. / A bad peace is better than a good war. - Yiddish Proverb

Re: Re: license questions.

2002-10-07 Thread David Starner
. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Falshe fridn iz beser vi a rikhtige krig. / A bad peace is better than a good war. - Yiddish Proverb

Re: question about data used in a program

2002-09-23 Thread starner
quote from them... Our data are public domain. Use of ADC data in writing software should be acknowledged by reference to the original authors and publication and to the ADC. The acknowledgment might read: This software uses data provided by Mark/Mary Astronomer in AJ, 115, 1998 as

Re: truetype font licensing

2002-09-03 Thread starner
http://bibliofile.mc.duke.edu/gww/fonts/Unicode.html This set of fonts is distributed under a license which contains the following clause: Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation

Re: Bad license on VCG?

2002-08-30 Thread starner
I think you're a little over-zealous in your interpretation. The original distributor is clearly the only entity not distributing what for them is the preferred form for modification, and that's their prerogative. Whilst we may not like it, I don't think it in any way makes it undistributable; as

Bad license on VCG?

2002-08-27 Thread starner
The Readme for VCG says: LICENSE CONDITIONS Copyright (C) 1993--1995 by Iris Lemke, Georg Sander, and the Compare Consortium This work is supported by the ESPRIT project 5399 Compare. We thank the Compare Consortium for the permission to

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-08 Thread David Starner
At 04:56 PM 8/8/02 -0400, Boris Veytsman wrote: Thomas, the wishes of Knuth need not to be divined. He expressed them quite clearly. Why do not you read some FAQ, say, http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=TeXfuture You think that's clear? The only thing pertinent to the argument, and

Re: MP3 decoders' non-freeness

2002-08-06 Thread David Starner
At 08:49 PM 8/5/02 -0400, Joe Drew wrote: On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 14:49, Joe Drew wrote: Has there been any resolution of this issue? Is it safe to close these bugs? It seems there has been no resolution, but this is an issue we cannot afford to ignore. Why? Honestly, we won't be the first to

Bug#155396: ITP: iso-codes -- Collection of ISO code lists and their translations

2002-08-04 Thread David Starner
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-04 Severity: wishlist * Package name: iso-codes Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.saorleir.com/iso-codeshttp://www.saorleir.com/iso-codes * License :

Re: forbidding later version of GPL for xsoldier

2002-06-08 Thread starner
I took over the upstream of xsoldier (I am not the original author, so I don't have the copyright). It was under GPL version 2 or later. Can I put it under GPL exactly version 2, that is, forbid any later version? GPL says: [...] Is forbidding later versions of GPL further restrictions? I

Re: libreadline

2002-05-08 Thread David Starner
problem is that OpenSSL is the bad guy, This is debatable (and note that you don't have to be infatuated with the GPL to become involved with Debian), and off topic. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] What we've got is a blue-light special on truth. It's the hottest thing with the youth

Re: CUPS and OpenSSL

2002-05-04 Thread David Starner
it would be better to drop the last six lines; legally, all it can do is complicate any dispute. However, in any situation not involving lawyers filing brief and counter brief with a judge, it's the same thing. I don't see any problem with it. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit

Re: linux gpl question

2002-04-26 Thread David Starner
. Assuming that the copyright violator was stupid enough to go that far; all GPL license questions have been settled out of court, because getting hauled into court is an expensive risky proposition. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have

Re: linux gpl question

2002-04-26 Thread David Starner
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 04:53:24PM -0600, John Galt wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, David Starner wrote: A patch to a program is a derivative work of the program, in most cases. Hence, you need permission of the copyright owner to distribute it; lacking direct permission (rather painful

Re: linux gpl question

2002-04-25 Thread David Starner
it out. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side. - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: linux gpl question

2002-04-25 Thread David Starner
to a program is a derivative work of the program, in most cases. Hence, you need permission of the copyright owner to distribute it; lacking direct permission (rather painful for the kernel), you have to distribute it under the GPL if you distribute it. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit

Re: EDICT, GPL

2002-04-24 Thread David Starner
, and the GPL is a decent lazy-man's way of applying them. What exactly was the question here? -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side. - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: EDICT, GPL

2002-04-24 Thread David Starner
.) -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side. - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: openssl and GPL

2002-04-21 Thread David Starner
] accompanies the executable. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side. - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Crypto++ licencing

2002-04-20 Thread David Starner
code without a copyright statement and objecting when people use it. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side. - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Legal status of chess game collections

2002-04-13 Thread David Starner
. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side. - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#131997 acknowledged by developer (Bug#131997: fixed in glut 3.7-12)

2002-02-15 Thread David Starner
swirl. We don't care about modifying GLUT source code on the hard drive; we need to know we can modify it and distribute it. -- David Starner / Давид Старнэр - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org What we've got is a blue-light special on truth. It's the hottest thing

Re: license evaluation

2002-02-15 Thread David Starner
not. Was there anything you were worried about? -- David Starner / Давид Старнэр - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org What we've got is a blue-light special on truth. It's the hottest thing with the youth. -- Information Society, Peace and Love, Inc.

Re: Bug#131997 acknowledged by developer (Bug#131997: fixed in glut 3.7-12)

2002-02-12 Thread David Starner
to be included in the package. -- David Starner / Давид Старнзр - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org What we've got is a blue-light special on truth. It's the hottest thing with the youth. -- Information Society, Peace and Love, Inc.

Re: Bug#131997 acknowledged by developer (Bug#131997: fixed in glut 3.7-12)

2002-02-12 Thread David Starner
Apparently, the maintainer of Glut hasn't been changed yet. So I'll cc you directly. (Sorry for the extra copies, James.) On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 02:41:21PM -0600, David Starner wrote: reopen 131997 thanks * GLUT headers and examples are actually DFSG free, see debian/copyright

Re: The old DFSG-lemma again...

2001-11-06 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 10:51:12AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: This would mean that we would have to stop distributing the Emacs manual, which has always contained such invariant sections. As has the GCC manual, at least since 1994. (Funding Free Software) -- David Starner - [EMAIL

Re: Fwd: Re: License of OPP and smith#

2001-10-30 Thread David Starner
than him possibly not being the person who posted it. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my breast; each one softly calls my name . . . the daemon scares me less. - Disciple, Stuart Davis

Re: APL LGPL GPL

2001-10-28 Thread David Starner
, right? Debian has so far ignored that clause, since many of us feel that it leads to too many questions to be worth it, and that it's fundamentatly a copout for a Free OS to use it. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I saw a daemon stare into my face

Re: Mp3-decoders also patented?

2001-10-23 Thread David Starner
heard, it only covers encoding, and Fraunhofer is making idle threats about decoding. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my breast; each one softly calls my name . . . the daemon scares me less

Re: OpenOffice and Java

2001-10-22 Thread David Starner
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 12:10:10PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: On Oct 21, David Starner wrote: On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 02:58:22PM +0400, Peter Novodvorsky wrote: With current jdk license it cannot be put in non-free, right? In this case, openoffice cannot be put in main nor in contrib

Re: OpenOffice and Java

2001-10-21 Thread David Starner
are not in our archive at all for compilation or execution (interesting that it can't require a package in non-us, but it can require one not in the archive.) -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my breast; each

Re: xfig-doc has license problems in examples

2001-10-16 Thread David Starner
significant creative work to make. Why wouldn't it be copyrightable? I don't see why it's any different from any other textual work of the same size and creative effort. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my

Re: DFSG status of DFARS clause?

2001-10-15 Thread David Starner
Raadt having to follow the GPL, and that was Bruce Peren's opinion at the time.) -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my breast; each one softly calls my name . . . the daemon scares me less. - Disciple

Re: xfig-doc has license problems in examples

2001-10-15 Thread David Starner
suggest starting with the documentation for gcc, just to get to the heart of the matter. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my breast; each one softly calls my name . . . the daemon scares me less

Re: xfig-doc has license problems in examples

2001-10-15 Thread David Starner
tidbits in Debian main already. Like licenses. Licenses have always been declared out of territory, since there's no need to modify them, and we don't want to argue with various authors over the license of the license. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http

Re: Licence for free ttf fonts - open source enough?

2001-10-13 Thread David Starner
that in countries other than the US, you can assert copyright on bitmap fonts. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my breast; each one softly calls my name . . . the daemon scares me less. - Disciple, Stuart Davis

Re: Licence for free ttf fonts - open source enough?

2001-10-12 Thread David Starner
/Windows programming communities (especially pre-97 or so.) Note the large number of free MetaFont fonts. We just need to convince font people that they should release under free licneses. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I saw a daemon stare into my

Re: Licence for free ttf fonts - open source enough?

2001-10-12 Thread David Starner
as is. There's also a clause about not changing the name. Since we have a clause specifically permitting forcing a name change, I'd say that not permitting a name change would be disallowed restricting modification. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I saw

Re: Licence for free ttf fonts - open source enough?

2001-10-12 Thread David Starner
Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my breast; each one softly calls my name . . . the daemon scares me less. - Disciple, Stuart Davis

Re: Licence for free ttf fonts - open source enough?

2001-10-12 Thread David Starner
. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my breast; each one softly calls my name . . . the daemon scares me less. - Disciple, Stuart Davis

Re: RFC about copyrights and right package section for W3C docs.

2001-09-20 Thread David Starner
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:01:55PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't see the distinction. Are icons metadata? The name almost certainly is . . . but we made a special exception for name changes in the DFSG. Icons are not metadata. The author

Re: RFC about copyrights and right package section for W3C docs.

2001-09-20 Thread David Starner
sections of text in some GNU Free Documentation License'd texts that can not be modified - for example, Funding Free Software in the gcc manual. Is that DFSG-free or otherwise permissable in main? If it is, then what about other unmodifiable texts? Where's the line, and why? -- David Starner - [EMAIL

Re: RFC about copyrights and right package section for W3C docs.

2001-09-18 Thread David Starner
licenses. But I don't see how that matters. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored. - Joseph_Greg

Re: Adpcm code--is this licence free?

2001-09-18 Thread David Starner
of reasoning. Whether or not HP does it makes no difference to us. Even it currently being in Debian is no proof of it being acceptable; every so often we come across a license that has been in Debian for years, but that isn't DFSG. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http

Re: RFC about copyrights and right package section for W3C docs.

2001-09-16 Thread David Starner
, if it is to apply to documentation and RFC's, modificiation must be allowed. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored. - Joseph_Greg

Re: Cactvs-license

2001-09-14 Thread David Starner
). The univ. considers itself to be a copyright holder, and this was the only way to get any distribution rights. He didn't answer the non-free question yet, though. Huh? That's an answer to the non-free question, right there. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http

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