Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-25 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:49:35 +0200 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 24 septembre 2006 à 23:32 +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : [...] > > Here, the restriction clearly forbids creating a derivative work > > that is a drop-in replacement of the original, and thus interferes > > with interoperabi

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 24 septembre 2006 à 23:32 +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : >> > Replacing the text by a 'this software cannot return >> > "schily" because it would infringe on Jörg Schilling's trademark' >> > notice - or no notice at all - would seem like a fine solution. >>

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 24 septembre 2006 à 23:32 +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : > > Jörg Schilling interprets this restriction as implied by trademark law > > in his country. > > I don't know whether his interpretation is a legally valid one (IANAL), > even though I've heard of cases where courts prevented

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-24 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 13:43:39 +0200 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 15 septembre 2006 à 23:51 +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : > > > Because the hard problems that you pointed out have been fixed. We > > > do no longer return "schily" author ID, etc. > > > > You no longer return "schily", but

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 15 septembre 2006 à 23:51 +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : > > Because the hard problems that you pointed out have been fixed. We do > > no longer return "schily" author ID, etc. > > You no longer return "schily", but it seems that noone is allowed to > create a modified version of cdrk

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-18 Thread Markus Laire
On 9/16/06, Markus Laire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just reported a bug for this. Hopefully I didn't make any mistakes and it'll eventually show up in bugs.debian.org It's bug #387783 At http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=387783 -- Markus Laire -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-17 Thread MJ Ray
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [...] It only implies that this issue is > higly inflamable, and putting it on a wider mailing list is not a good > tactical move. And please don't tell me that there is not a single troll > on this list. Given the apparent posting restrictions on debburn-devel,

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-16 Thread Markus Laire
On 9/15/06, Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/14/06, Markus Laire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, it's possible that I should report a "serious"[1] bug for this, > but I wanted to ask about this from debian-legal first, to know if > others agree that this is a problem. Reporting

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * MJ Ray [Fri, Sep 15 2006, 10:53:03PM]: > Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would like to ask you to give us some days to find a peacefull > > solution without starting another flamewar. But, hey, you already did it > > by Cc'ing debian-legal and so attracting the trolls ASAP

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-15 Thread MJ Ray
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to ask you to give us some days to find a peacefull > solution without starting another flamewar. But, hey, you already did it > by Cc'ing debian-legal and so attracting the trolls ASAP. Very > diplomatic. NOT. If the above troll of debian-leg

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-15 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:14:36 +0200 Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * Markus Laire [Thu, Sep 14 2006, 03:37:11PM]: > > > I mentioned this problem over a week ago[5] at debburn-devel but > > didn't get any response. > > Because the hard problems that you pointed out have been fixed. We do > no l

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-14 Thread Albert Cahalan
On 9/14/06, Markus Laire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also, it's possible that I should report a "serious"[1] bug for this, but I wanted to ask about this from debian-legal first, to know if others agree that this is a problem. Reporting a serious bug is definitely correct. Be sure to mention t

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-14 Thread Markus Laire
On 9/14/06, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #include * Markus Laire [Thu, Sep 14 2006, 03:37:11PM]: > I mentioned this problem over a week ago[5] at debburn-devel but > didn't get any response. Because the hard problems that you pointed out have been fixed. We do no longer return "schi

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Markus Laire [Thu, Sep 14 2006, 03:37:11PM]: > I mentioned this problem over a week ago[5] at debburn-devel but > didn't get any response. Because the hard problems that you pointed out have been fixed. We do no longer return "schily" author ID, etc. > Recently Nathanael Nerode menti