Bug#181969: [mdadams@ece.uvic.ca: Re: JasPer licensing wrt Debian Linux]

2003-08-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:58:02PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > By using copyright law to reinforce software patents (which are a load > of hooey to begin with of course), the license becomes non-free. A > notice that the software is subject to patents would be free, but making > it a binding pa

Bug#181969: [mdadams@ece.uvic.ca: Re: JasPer licensing wrt Debian Linux]

2003-08-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:33:46PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > I got the following email back from Michael. So with the clarification > below that it is not allowed to use the JPEG-2000 part of the code for > non-standards based work make it non DFSG free? If so is there anyway to > make it DFSG

Bug#181969: [mdadams@ece.uvic.ca: Re: JasPer licensing wrt Debian Linux]

2003-08-27 Thread Chris Cheney
I got the following email back from Michael. So with the clarification below that it is not allowed to use the JPEG-2000 part of the code for non-standards based work make it non DFSG free? If so is there anyway to make it DFSG free and still uphold their wishes as stated below? Thanks, Chris Ch