Re: [DNG] A problem with a license

2017-07-05 Thread KatolaZ
On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 02:29:09PM -0500, goli...@dyne.org wrote: > Already taken care of an hour or so ago on #devuan-dev. > > KatolaZ: Considering everything that has been said here and on the > mailing list, I decided to remove the clause from the license. > I have already updated the reposit

Re: [DNG] A problem with a license

2017-07-05 Thread Bruce Perens
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Re: [DNG] A problem with a license

2017-07-05 Thread golinux
Already taken care of an hour or so ago on #devuan-dev. KatolaZ: Considering everything that has been said here and on the mailing list, I decided to remove the clause from the license. I have already updated the repositories accordingly. On 2017-07-05 14:20, Bruce Perens wrote: Do you want

Re: [DNG] A problem with a license

2017-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 05.07.2017 11:56, KatolaZ wrote: DR D1Rs, yesterday I was reviewing a new package made by Daniel Abrecht (DPA), a little library that implements the sd_journal_* functions by redirecting the calls to syslog. The project can be found here: by the way: do we have a list of packages that still

Re: [DNG] A problem with a license

2017-07-05 Thread Patrick Meade
On 07/05/2017 10:46 AM, Ivan J. wrote: That clause itself is not a big problem, but IMHO it should rather be moved to the README file or something similar rather than the license itself where it actually *is* putting restrictions and in the case of FSF would not be considered free software. It

Re: [DNG] A problem with a license

2017-07-05 Thread Bruce Perens
Do you want to talk with him, or should I? It should be possible to convince him to change the license, so that we can go on with the package. Thanks Bruce On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 8:46 AM, Ivan J. wrote: > On Wed, 05 Jul 2017, KatolaZ wrote: > > > DR D1Rs, > > > > yesterday I was review

Re: [DNG] A problem with a license

2017-07-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 09:06:06PM +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 at 13:37:43 +0100 > KatolaZ wrote: > > [...] > > > I totally agree that the best thing would be for DPA to change the > > license to a regular Expat/MIT (i.e., by removing that clause), and it > > is evident n

Re: [DNG] A problem with a license

2017-07-05 Thread Alessandro Selli
On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 at 13:37:43 +0100 KatolaZ wrote: [...] > I totally agree that the best thing would be for DPA to change the > license to a regular Expat/MIT (i.e., by removing that clause), and it > is evident now that we are all on the same page. He might release it under a dual licence:

Re: [DNG] A problem with a license

2017-07-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 10:56:45 +0100 KatolaZ wrote: > DR D1Rs, > > yesterday I was reviewing a new package made by Daniel Abrecht (DPA), > a little library that implements the sd_journal_* functions by > redirecting the calls to syslog. The project can be found here: > > https://git.devuan.org/D

Re: [DNG] A problem with a license

2017-07-05 Thread Ivan J.
On Wed, 05 Jul 2017, KatolaZ wrote: > DR D1Rs, > > yesterday I was reviewing a new package made by Daniel Abrecht (DPA), > a little library that implements the sd_journal_* functions by > redirecting the calls to syslog. The project can be found here: > > https://git.devuan.org/DPA/sd_journal_

Re: [DNG] A problem with a license

2017-07-05 Thread KatolaZ
On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 09:17:25PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: [cut] > > > In a word, I would not agree to include this package in Devuan/main, > > unless that clause is removed. But just for the sake of clarity (and > > because I think this can create a nasty precedent) I thought it was > > g

Re: [DNG] A problem with a license

2017-07-05 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi, KatolaZ writes: > DR D1Rs, > > yesterday I was reviewing a new package made by Daniel Abrecht (DPA), > a little library that implements the sd_journal_* functions by > redirecting the calls to syslog. The project can be found here: > > https://git.devuan.org/DPA/sd_journal_shim > > This wou

Re: [DNG] A problem with a license

2017-07-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 12:10:34 +0200, Alessandro wrote in message <20170705121034.0040505a@pulvis.localnet>: > On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 at 10:56:45 +0100 > KatolaZ wrote: > > [...] > > > Please, please, please: let's avoid to tranform this in a flame. The > > thing is that Devuan/main should include on

Re: [DNG] A problem with a license

2017-07-05 Thread Vincent Bentley
I have some suggestions for some changes to Daniel Abrecht's sd_journal_shim license and code that may be agreeable. 1. Give Daniel Abrecht an email address to use in his copyright messages on the source code for sd_journal_shim E.g. daniel.abre...@contributor.devuan.org 2. Change the code so th

Re: [DNG] A problem with a license

2017-07-05 Thread Bardot Jérôme
On 05/07/2017 11:56, KatolaZ wrote: > DR D1Rs, > > yesterday I was reviewing a new package made by Daniel Abrecht (DPA), > a little library that implements the sd_journal_* functions by > redirecting the calls to syslog. The project can be found here: > > https://git.devuan.org/DPA/sd_journal_shi

Re: [DNG] A problem with a license

2017-07-05 Thread Alessandro Selli
On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 at 10:56:45 +0100 KatolaZ wrote: [...] > Please, please, please: let's avoid to tranform this in a flame. The > thing is that Devuan/main should include only free-software, and that > clause makes the package non-compliant with the basic freedom 0. We > would like suggestions

[DNG] A problem with a license

2017-07-05 Thread KatolaZ
DR D1Rs, yesterday I was reviewing a new package made by Daniel Abrecht (DPA), a little library that implements the sd_journal_* functions by redirecting the calls to syslog. The project can be found here: https://git.devuan.org/DPA/sd_journal_shim This would allow to avoid to link against lib