Bug#383316: Please vet this modified CC license for uploading FoF music to non-free (was: Re: Could you please forward this proposed license to Teosto?)

2007-05-22 Thread Jason Spiro
On 5/15/07, Matthew Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... How about: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/legalcode with 4. d. added saying: You may not publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform the Work except as part of the game and you may not

Bug#383316: Final Packages?

2007-05-14 Thread Jason Spiro
it fretsonfire-music-sectoid? I think that'd be a more self-explanatory name for non-expert Debian and Ubuntu users. Would you like me to send a patch to rename the package? -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I provide software development and training services to clients worldwide

Bug#383316: Could you please forward this proposed license to Teosto? (was: Re: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs)

2007-04-27 Thread Jason Spiro
2007/4/27, Matthew Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu Apr 26 21:16, Jason Spiro wrote: I don't know much about how to write licenses, and this is the first one I have ever written. I figured that everything after the subject to the following conditions: would automatically override

Bug#383316: Could you please forward this proposed license to Teosto? (was: Re: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs)

2007-04-26 Thread Jason Spiro
2007/3/28, Matthew Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue Mar 27 20:54, Jason Spiro wrote: 2007/3/27, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jason Spiro wrote: Maybe if debian-legal or I wrote the license (I have never written a license before, but maybe I could

Bug#383316: Could you please forward this proposed license to Teosto? (was: Re: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs)

2007-04-26 Thread Jason Spiro
Hi Matthew, 2007/4/26, Matthew Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu Apr 26 16:25, Jason Spiro wrote: Copyright (C) year copyright holders Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this work (the Work) to use, modify, copy, publish, distribute

Bug#383316: FoF package for Debian

2007-04-12 Thread Jason Spiro
2007/3/27, Sami Kyöstilä [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We finally got in touch with the Teosto lawyer, and he informed us that unfortunately the game's music can't be distributed with a CC license. The problem is while the songs can freely be distributed with the game, they can't be distributed or

Bug#383316: FoF package for Debian

2007-04-12 Thread Jason Spiro
if they have separate guitar tracks available 3. if so, ask if they would relicense under a Debian-free license 4. get frets files created. What do you all think? [1] http://web.archive.org/www.ipodarmy.com/2005/06/how-to-find-podsafe-music/ -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I provide

Bug#376431: I tar'ed up my work from last year on packaging Open Watcom today

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Spiro
I made a tarball of my work from last year on packaging Open Watcom. I doubt I will ever work on it further. It contains a control file, a rules file (I don't know how well it works), and a TODO file. The rules and TODO files contain useful tips for anyone who ever wants to package OW. The

Bug#376431: FYI: There are unofficial Debian packages of OW available

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Spiro
All: FYI, I just found out today that someone named blairdude has kindly made unofficial .debs (and .rpms made with Alien) for Open Watcom available. I haven't tried them. They appear to be .debs of a few-month-old release candidate of OW. They are available at:

Bug#383316: FoF package for Debian

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Spiro
to get it into Debian even before this issue is resolved. :-) Cheers, Jason [1] http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=182199ugn=fretsonfiretype=prdownloadmode=alltimepackage_id=211274release_id=466327file_id=1074215 -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I provide

Bug#383316: FoF package for Debian

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Spiro
that nobody would consider the tutorial to be a song. -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I provide software development and training services to clients worldwide. Contact me for a FREE consultation. Satisfaction guaranteed. +1 (416) 781-5938 / Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / MSN: [EMAIL

Bug#383316: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Spiro
, Jason P.S. I am CC'ing [EMAIL PROTECTED] now even though I didn't CC it before. -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I provide software development and training services to clients worldwide. Contact me for a FREE consultation. Satisfaction guaranteed. +1 (416) 781-5938 / Email

Bug#383316: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Spiro
2007/3/27, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jason Spiro wrote: Maybe if debian-legal or I wrote the license (I have never written a license before, but maybe I could modify the MIT license) we could get Teosto to agree on more liberal terms than we would get if Teosto

Bug#391309: RFP: gnome-app-install - the easiest-to-use software installation tool available

2007-03-11 Thread Jason Spiro
didn't get your reply: the BTS did not send me a CC of it. I don't know why. Do you know: is the BTS automatically supposed to send bug reporters copies of all replies to a bug report? If not, why not? -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware removal

Bug#403619: Morph-it now LGPLed; Morphy license

2007-03-11 Thread Jason Spiro
and that a link would be nice (but isn't required). OK. They are academics so I will contact them using the form at http://www.wolfganglezius.de/kontaktformular/ and ask them if they will LGPL the work. -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware removal

Bug#403619: could you please dual-license Morph-it under both CC and GNU LGPL

2007-03-07 Thread Jason Spiro
LanguageTool is packaged for Debian Linux (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403619 for progress) it can include Italian support. (Due to complicated legal points, Debian cannot currently accept CC-SA 2.0 software.) Regards, Jason Spiro Toronto, Canada -- Jason Spiro: computer

Bug#403619: RFP: languagetool -- rule-based language checker

2007-03-07 Thread Jason Spiro
, and Italian. -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware removal services for homes and businesses. Call or email for a FREE 5-minute consultation. Satisfaction guaranteed. +1 (416) 781-5938 / Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#403619: Morph-it now LGPLed; Morphy license

2007-03-07 Thread Jason Spiro
read German. Cheers, Jason Spiro -- Forwarded message -- From: Eros Zanchetta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7 mars 2007 18:51 Subject: Re: could you please dual-license Morph-it under both CC and GNU LGPL To: Jason Spiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason

Bug#383316: FoF package for Debian

2007-03-07 Thread Jason Spiro
On Feb. 18, 2007, Sami Kyostila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... We'll contact Teosto and see which license would be okay with them. Hi Sami, Any luck? Kind regards, Jason P.S. If you want, I will contact Teosto myself: just let me know what email address or phone number to contact. -- To

Bug#383316: FoF package for Debian

2007-02-18 Thread Jason Spiro
that) and performance, but I don't think there's really a need to. -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware removal services for homes and businesses. Call or email for a FREE 5-minute consultation. Satisfaction guaranteed. +1 (416) 781-5938 / Email: [EMAIL

Bug#383316: FoF package for Debian

2007-02-15 Thread Jason Spiro
? Cheers, Jason P.S. I am not a lawyer. Also, laws vary by country. Your country's laws may differ. -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware removal services for homes and businesses. Call or email for a FREE 5-minute consultation. Satisfaction guaranteed

Bug#383316: FoF package for Debian

2007-02-13 Thread Jason Spiro
2007/2/13, Miriam Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not very much into the legal things, so I'm a bit lost on how to solve it. Jason Spiro (I'm CC'ing him) has offered to help me with this. Hi Sami, First of all, thanks very much for releasing Frets on Fire under the GPL. It's a great game, and we

Bug#383316: FretsOnFire

2007-02-12 Thread Jason Spiro
if you could forward me your previous emails re. SVG vs. PNG. IMO, I think it's best if we also CC [EMAIL PROTECTED] on all emails to upstream so that people will be able to see what has happened. :-) Cheers, Jason -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware

Bug#383316: FretsOnFire

2007-02-12 Thread Jason Spiro
to licence them the agency which was linked to should have nothing to do with it. OTOH, if they are using songs which aren't original by them, there could be a problem. What explanation? What agency? Cheers, Jason -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware

Bug#383316: FretsOnFire

2007-02-09 Thread Jason Spiro
. registered copyright trademark [3] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/legalcode [4] http://evan.prodromou.name/Debian_Creative_Commons_Workgroup_report -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide software development services for businesses worldwide

Bug#374373:

2006-11-16 Thread Jason Spiro
Did you try to convince Google to make google-earth redistributable? If not, if you do so, please CC a copy of your message to this bug. Cheers, Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#393753: Commercial demo in Debian?

2006-10-31 Thread Jason Spiro
in a shell archive and there is no license when you download it. The embedded license does allow distribution but under some specific terms which I'm not sure we can comply with. Dear Sir/Madam at CodeWeavers Inc., My name is Jason Spiro and I am working to encourage the Debian GNU/Linux project

Bug#393753: RFP: crossover-office-demo -- time-limited demo version of CrossOver Office (the commercial variant of Wine)

2006-10-17 Thread Jason Spiro
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: crossover-office-demo Version : Version 6 beta, if it's stable enough, or otherwise version 5 Upstream Author : CodeWeavers, Inc. * URL : http://www.codeweavers.com/ * License : I don't know Description :

Bug#392289: quickrefs-sysadmin - various admin-related quick reference cards and quick reference HTML documents

2006-10-10 Thread Jason Spiro
are licensed under Free licenses and some aren't. Perhaps some of the various common quick reference text/HTML documents could be added in too, such as Linux Installation and Getting Started if it's not already packaged. Cheers, Jason -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide

Bug#392288: quickrefs-programming - various coding-related quick reference cards and quick reference HTML documents

2006-10-10 Thread Jason Spiro
under Free licenses and some aren't. Perhaps some of the various common quick reference text/HTML documents could be added in too, such as the C FAQ maintained by Steve Summit and the C++ FAQ. Cheers, Jason -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware removal

Bug#391309: RFP: gnome-app-install - the easiest-to-use software installation tool available

2006-10-05 Thread Jason Spiro
more work we could sync. Regards, Jason Spiro -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware removal services for homes and businesses. Call or email for a FREE 5-minute consultation. Satisfaction guaranteed. 416-781-5938 / Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / MSN

Bug#391309:

2006-10-05 Thread Jason Spiro
FYI, my TODO list for the experimental package I made: * change common.py to use a nicer generic icon when a requested icon is unavailable * this package should add itself to the bottom of the gnome Applications menu (see http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=724slide=47) or

Bug#376431: ITP: openwatcom -- C/C++ compiler and IDE that produce efficient, portable code

2006-07-02 Thread Jason Spiro
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: openwatcom Version : I plan to do version 1.4 (or 1.6, if it comes out soon) Upstream Author : an independent team of volunteer contributors * URL : http://www.openwatcom.org/ * License : Sybase Open Watcom Public

Bug#353641: RFP: gaim-plugins -- 28 useful plugins for the Gaim instant messenger

2006-02-19 Thread Jason Spiro
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist It would be great any or all of these useful gaim plugins could be packaged for Debian. I assume they could all go in one single package called gaim-plugins with the version number of the version of gaim they are built against, since: A) Plugins are easy to

Bug#201734: Here's the ATI license. It seems to allow repackaging.

2005-03-27 Thread Jason Spiro
-8.10.19-1.i386.rpm (ATI's latest X 4.3 Radeon / FireGL driver package for Linux.) I'm not a lawyer but it sounds like section 1(d) allows Debian to distribute the .debs from stanchina.net. Jason Spiro (Here's the license:) ATI Software End User License Agreement PLEASE READ THIS LICENSE