Re: Yet another bunch of licences

2003-02-11 Thread Richard Stallman
But Helix DNA can handle other CODECs, too. Even Ogg Vorbis-support is under development. If problems of RPSL will be rectified, even without Real*-CODECs Helix DNA might be both free and useful software. I guess so...but are we really able to do anything with it that we can't do witho

Re: Yet another bunch of licences

2003-02-11 Thread Juhapekka Tolvanen
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, +18:05:02 EET (UTC +0200), Lawrence Lessig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pressed some keys: > On 2/10/03 3:38 PM, "Juhapekka Tolvanen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But it would be really irritating situation, if somebody creates > > nice software documentation that is meant to be fr

Re: Yet another bunch of licences

2003-02-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:16:44PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > The impression I got from reading the site was that they intended them > as general-purpose licenses for use by anyone who's turned off by > legal minutiae. Perhaps it goes without saying that as a denizen of > debian-legal, I consi

Re: Yet another bunch of licences

2003-02-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 06:12:21PM -0500, David Turner wrote: > The FSF has been working with the Real people on the license. It's a > slow process, but the dialog is ongoing and productive. They have a > strong interest in making the license into a GPL-compatible Free > Software license. Wow,

Re: Yet another bunch of licences

2003-02-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 05:38:26PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > These are really important projects that claim to be free in the sense > of freedom. But I'd like to know, what Free Software Foundation and > readers of debian-legal think about those licences. So, please, evaluate >

Re: Yet another bunch of licences

2003-02-10 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Richard Stallman wrote: > The Creative Commons licenses are not supposed to be used for software. > Doesn't the Creative Commons site say so? It ought to. http://creativecommons.org/faq#faq_entry_3321 makes it clear the Creative Commons does not intend to get involved with software licensing. Th

Re: Yet another bunch of licences

2003-02-10 Thread Juhapekka Tolvanen
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, +00:38:27 EET (UTC +0200), Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pressed some keys: > These are really important projects that claim to be free in the sense > of freedom. But I'd like to know, what Free Software Foundation and > readers of debian-legal think about

Re: Yet another bunch of licences

2003-02-10 Thread David Turner
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 17:38, Richard Stallman wrote: > These are really important projects that claim to be free in the sense > of freedom. But I'd like to know, what Free Software Foundation and > readers of debian-legal think about those licences. So, please, evaluate > those lic

Re: Yet another bunch of licences

2003-02-10 Thread Richard Stallman
These are really important projects that claim to be free in the sense of freedom. But I'd like to know, what Free Software Foundation and readers of debian-legal think about those licences. So, please, evaluate those licences carefully The Creative Commons licenses are not suppos

Re: Yet another bunch of licences

2003-02-10 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Juhapekka Tolvanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Attribution" > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0 It is not immediately clear that the license's definition of "Derivative Work": | "Derivative Work" means a work based upon the Work or upon the Work | and other pre-existing works, such

Yet another bunch of licences

2003-02-09 Thread Juhapekka Tolvanen
These are really important projects that claim to be free in the sense of freedom. But I'd like to know, what Free Software Foundation and readers of debian-legal think about those licences. So, please, evaluate those licences carefully And I hope, that then FSF can make some statements about th