On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 11:35:10PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
> Now, I can infer one of three things:
>
> 1. You had off-list contact with the X-Oz people before the license was
> analyzed here on -legal, and did not communicate their non-standard
> interpretation of that clause back to us for th
[self-followup]
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 06:09:08PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> It is, however, worth noting that many subtle variations of the MIT/X11
> license exist. That the traditional MIT/X11 license is (by
> general consensus, I daresay) DFSG-free, that any license derived from it
> is
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 08:09:27PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> >So, what happened is that we have autoconfig code available to us under
> >the XFree86 1.0 (3-clause BSD) licence, which is DFSG-free; this is the
> >same code that's currently in the X.Org tree, which appeared to form
> >the cor
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 01:37:48PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:01:03AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > /*
> > * Copyright 2003 by David H. Dawes.
> > * Copyright 2003 by X-Oz Technologies.
> > * All rights reserved.
> > *
> > * Permission is hereby granted, free of
Robert Millan writes:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:01:03AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > /*
> > * Copyright 2003 by David H. Dawes.
> > * Copyright 2003 by X-Oz Technologies.
> > * All rights reserved.
> > *
> > * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
> > *
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:01:03AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> /*
> * Copyright 2003 by David H. Dawes.
> * Copyright 2003 by X-Oz Technologies.
> * All rights reserved.
> *
> * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
> * copy of this software and associated d
* Daniel Stone:
> As I'm sure you all know, XFree86 post-4.4RC2 bears a non-DFSG-free
> licence, which makes it impossible for Debian to include.
The license appears to be DFSG-free, but incompatible with the GPL.
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:01:03AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> As we're coming up to a release and thus need to close this issue
> quickly, could -legal please comment on this issue for completeness? I
> would really like comments from the peanut gallery, the cheap seats, the
> people who aren't l
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:01:03AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Hi guys,
> We're trying to release X11R6.7.1 over at X.Org these days, but we've
> hit a little roadbump.
>
> As I'm sure you all know, XFree86 post-4.4RC2 bears a non-DFSG-free
> licence, which makes it impossible for Debian to inclu
Daniel Stone writes:
> [3]:
> /*
> * Copyright 2003 by David H. Dawes.
> * Copyright 2003 by X-Oz Technologies.
> * All rights reserved.
> *
> * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
> * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 07:11:22PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> I believe even the X-Oz licence did experience the addition of this
> problematic clause at some time, so this code could be a pre-change fork or
> something ? Daniel, what is in the COPYRIGHT or such file ? Could you paste
> that here
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 12:54:15PM -0400, Michael Poole wrote:
> Daniel Stone writes:
>
> > [3]:
> > /*
> > * Copyright 2003 by David H. Dawes.
> > * Copyright 2003 by X-Oz Technologies.
> > * All rights reserved.
> > *
> > * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaini
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 05:50:08PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > However, on the release call today, it was alleged that the code was
> > actually DFSG-free, and that the so-called 'X-Oz licence' bore no legal
> > problems whatsoever, and would be fine
[I am not on -legal; though I will read the archives, please CC.]
Hi guys,
We're trying to release X11R6.7.1 over at X.Org these days, but we've
hit a little roadbump.
As I'm sure you all know, XFree86 post-4.4RC2 bears a non-DFSG-free
licence, which makes it impossible for Debian to include. X.O
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