Re: bzflag license

1999-06-08 Thread Richard Braakman
Henning Makholm wrote: > Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 2. Modified object or executable code must be accompanied by the > >modified source code and/or documentation clearly stating the > >modifications. Modified executables must be renamed to not > >conflict with

Re: bzflag license

1999-06-07 Thread Henning Makholm
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2. Modified object or executable code must be accompanied by the >modified source code and/or documentation clearly stating the >modifications. Modified executables must be renamed to not >conflict with the standard names. > The last sen

Re: bzflag license

1999-06-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 02:37:53AM +0200, Juergen A. Erhard wrote: > > 1. Free Redistribution > > The license of a Debian component may not restrict any party from > selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate > software distribution containing programs fro

Re: bzflag license

1999-06-05 Thread Bruce Perens
Has someone talked with the author of this license? If you want me to do so, I'd help. Bruce

Re: bzflag license

1999-06-05 Thread Bruce Perens
Jurgen, Read http://perens.com/OSD.html . It includes an annotated OSD that makes some of these issues more understandable. The article is GPL-ed. Bruce

Re: bzflag license

1999-06-05 Thread Richard Braakman
cost, duplication charges, time of people involved, and so on. (You will not be required to justify it to the Copyright Holder, but only to the computing community at large as a market that must bear the fee.) The sentence in parentheses makes clause 5 meaningless. The bz

Re: bzflag license

1999-06-05 Thread Juergen A. Erhard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Another lesson learned, thanks for all the corrections... (I'm pretty sure I haven't seen all of them). I really should have read the DFSG a *little* more carefully. For anybody who missed it like me, here's the clause that I *thought* makes bzflag n

Re: bzflag license

1999-06-05 Thread Jonathan P Tomer
> 3. A reasonable fee may be charged to copy this software. Any fee > may be charged to support this software. This software may be > distributed as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software > distribution provided that no claim of ownership of this software > is made.

Re: bzflag license

1999-06-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
"Juergen A. Erhard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: There's a clause you seem to have overlooked, that I think makes it non-free (sorry): 3. A reasonable fee may be charged to copy this software. Any fee may be charged to support this software. This software may be distri

Re: bzflag license

1999-06-04 Thread Juergen A. Erhard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There's a clause you seem to have overlooked, that I think makes it non-free (sorry): 3. A reasonable fee may be charged to copy this software. Any fee may be charged to support this software. This software may be distributed as part of

Re: bzflag license

1999-06-02 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 11:49:33AM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 11:37:04 +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > 3. Redistribution and use of modified source and binary forms are > >permitted provided that at least one of the following conditions are met: > > > > A. Modifi

Re: bzflag license

1999-06-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 11:49:33 +0200, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > > B. Use of the modified version is restricted to within > > the corporation or organization that made the modifications. > > This violates DFSG #1/#3: the modified version cannot be redistributed > freely. Or if you will #5: it

Re: bzflag license

1999-06-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 11:37:04 +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > 3. Redistribution and use of modified source and binary forms are >permitted provided that at least one of the following conditions are met: > > A. Modifications are placed in the public domain or are > made available un

bzflag license

1999-06-02 Thread Sven LUTHER
Hello, ... I am thinking about packaging bzflags (http://groundhog.pair.com/bzflag), and would want ot know what you think about the license (http://groundhog.pair.com/bzflag/license.html), it is claimed to be opensource (as per www.opensource.org) but the following clause seems suspect to me : 3