Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-26 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 24 May 2005 08:48:49 -0500 Bill Allombert wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 07:55:52PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Could we at least wait until post-Helsinki? There's a session on the DFSG planned, and it would be helpful to gain a better idea of what the not-on-legal part of the

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-26 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 24 May 2005 15:53:29 +0100 Matthew Garrett wrote: Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I disagree with that. Debian is an online organisation and discussion and decision need to happen online. Noone is prevented to read debian-legal. People are heavily discouraged from

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please try and avoid non-costructive criticism. It's true that debian-legal often experiences what can be seen as noise or interesting discussions, depending on your point of view, mood, and temperature... but calling it masturbation is a bit rude,

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Florian Weimer wrote: QPL is usually considered free, but its use is discouraged. An additional exception, as granted by OCaml for example, can improve things. Even though the license says this: You must ensure that all recipients of the

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-24 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 03:53:29PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I disagree with that. Debian is an online organisation and discussion and decision need to happen online. Noone is prevented to read debian-legal. People are heavily discouraged

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wait, the QPL (with no additional permission and a choice of venue) is *not* DFSG-free (many long discussions were hold on debian-legal last summer, IIRC). This is just bullshit. A few people thinking it's not free does not make it non-free. -- ciao, Marco -- To

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-23 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 09:04:52PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wait, the QPL (with no additional permission and a choice of venue) is *not* DFSG-free (many long discussions were hold on debian-legal last summer, IIRC). This is just bullshit. A few people thinking

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-22 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 22 May 2005 05:58:41 +0200 Florian Weimer wrote: QPL is usually considered free, but its use is discouraged. Wait, the QPL (with no additional permission and a choice of venue) is *not* DFSG-free (many long discussions were hold on debian-legal last summer, IIRC). Based on what has

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wait, the QPL (with no additional permission and a choice of venue) is *not* DFSG-free (many long discussions were hold on debian-legal last summer, IIRC). There's disagreement over that. Based on what has been stated and on

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-22 Thread MJ Ray
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I think a bug should be filed immediately... Could we at least wait until post-Helsinki? There's a session on the DFSG planned, and it would be helpful to gain a better idea of what the not-on-legal part

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 22 May 2005, Matthew Garrett wrote: Could we at least wait until post-Helsinki? There's a session on the DFSG planned, and it would be helpful to gain a better idea of what the not-on-legal part of the project think about these sort of issues. Have you had a chance to outline this

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Florian Weimer wrote: * Roberto C. Sanchez: I have been recently checking out packages up for adoption or already orphaned. In the process I came across regexplorer [0]. Here are the dependencies of regexplorer and their respective licenses (as I understand it): * libc6 (LGPL) * libgcc1

License question about regexplorer

2005-05-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
I have been recently checking out packages up for adoption or already orphaned. In the process I came across regexplorer [0]. Here are the dependencies of regexplorer and their respective licenses (as I understand it): * libc6 (LGPL) * libgcc1 (GPL w/ exception) * libqt3c102-mt (QPL/GPL) *