Re: Please comment on IBPP licensing

2006-03-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My humble opinion is that it is almost DFSG-free. The only problem section is 3.1 (requires changes to be sent to upstream). Right, it fails the so-called desert island test. No part of the DFSG justifies this test, so it's not enough to make the license non-free. --

Re: Please comment on IBPP licensing

2006-03-08 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Francesco Poli wrote: Apart from clause 3.1 (which must be dropped anyway, if DFSG-freeness is sought), this license seems to try to grant a set of permissions not too different from the ones granted by the Expat a.k.a. MIT license (http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt). If I were you, I

Re: Please comment on IBPP licensing

2006-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
Damyan Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked for comments on: * 0. Definitions o 0.1. IBPP 'IBPP' is primarily a set of programming interfaces, initially written in the C++ language, which makes it easier to develop any other programming work which need to communicate and

Please comment on IBPP licensing

2006-03-07 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, The following license is used for IBPP[1] - a library for working with Firebird/Interbase database servers. This library is included (at source level) in FlameRobin[2] - a graphical tool for working with Firebird/Interbase which I intent to

Re: Please comment on IBPP licensing

2006-03-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 08:40:16PM +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, The following license is used for IBPP[1] - a library for working with Firebird/Interbase database servers. This library is included (at source level) in FlameRobin[2] - a

Re: Please comment on IBPP licensing

2006-03-07 Thread Walter Landry
Damyan Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The following license is used for IBPP[1] - a library for working with Firebird/Interbase database servers. This library is included (at source level) in FlameRobin[2] - a graphical tool for working with Firebird/Interbase which I intent to

Re: Please comment on IBPP licensing

2006-03-07 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:40:16 +0200 Damyan Ivanov wrote: [...] Either way, I need your comments about DFSG-compatibility of IBPP license. Note that this license is newly accomodated after leaving MPL (partly due to me arguing against MPL), so the intent is to make it free. License can be