Re: License conflict for VM screensaver (kdeartwork)

2005-03-10 Thread Josh Triplett
Christopher Martin wrote: I'd like to get a debian-legal opinion on a potential issue with the kdeartwork package. debian-legal was CCed (http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/10/msg00235.html) on an earlier discussion of the problem problem by Ben Burton, but didn't receive much feedback

Re: License conflict for VM screensaver (kdeartwork)

2004-10-15 Thread Waldo Bastian
On Friday 15 October 2004 04:22, Ben Burton wrote: Hi, (CCing debian-legal since they know better than I do. The problem here is a potential conflict between GPL and BSD-with-advertising-clause; see http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-develm=109779477208076w=2 for my original post. The

Re: License conflict for VM screensaver (kdeartwork)

2004-10-15 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, So the mentioned paragraph in vm_random.c should be considered struck as per July 22, 1999 In which case, could you (or someone else willing to take this responsibility) please delete the clause from vm_random.c in CVS to avoid future confusion? Thanks - Ben.

Re: License conflict for VM screensaver (kdeartwork)

2004-10-15 Thread Waldo Bastian
On Friday 15 October 2004 12:13, Ben Burton wrote: Hi, So the mentioned paragraph in vm_random.c should be considered struck as per July 22, 1999 In which case, could you (or someone else willing to take this responsibility) please delete the clause from vm_random.c in CVS to avoid

Re: License conflict for VM screensaver (kdeartwork)

2004-10-15 Thread Waldo Bastian
On Friday 15 October 2004 12:54, Andrew Coles wrote: On Friday 15 Oct 2004 11:37, Waldo Bastian wrote: I don't think I can because the other part of the license says Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph

Re: License conflict for VM screensaver (kdeartwork)

2004-10-15 Thread Ben Burton
Good idea, I added (...) Many thanks. Ben.

Re: License conflict for VM screensaver (kdeartwork)

2004-10-15 Thread Ben Burton
That retraction is only valid for original BSD code, not for any changes to it. Ah, sorry -- don't drink derive, etc. -- this was also one of my concerns, especially since the file does seem to have been through some refashioning since it was pulled out of BSD. If any changes were made

Re: License conflict for VM screensaver (kdeartwork)

2004-10-15 Thread Jason Keirstead
On October 15, 2004 09:36 am, Ben Burton wrote: If it is too difficult to case up all the contributers to vm_random.c, might it be easier to alter the licensing on the KDE portions of the screensaver (the GPLed parts) in the meantime? Might it be even *easier*, to avoid all this hassle, to

Re: License conflict for VM screensaver (kdeartwork)

2004-10-14 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, (CCing debian-legal since they know better than I do. The problem here is a potential conflict between GPL and BSD-with-advertising-clause; see http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-develm=109779477208076w=2 for my original post. The question now is whether the advertising clause can be assumed