Re: [Fedora-legal-list] tivodecode package

2009-01-26 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Monday, 26 January 2009 at 18:36, Bernard Johnson wrote: > I need a ruling on whether tivodecode can be accepted into Fedora. It's > currently submitted to rpmfusion, but Kevin Koffler thought it might be > able to be accepted into Fedora proper. > > There were three things under considerati

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] mldonkey's src/utils/lib/md4.h licence

2009-01-15 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Thursday, 15 January 2009 at 00:52, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "DM" == Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski writes: > > DM> Am I mistaken? Is this licence acceptable for Fedora? > > The i

[Fedora-legal-list] mldonkey's src/utils/lib/md4.h licence

2009-01-14 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
Hello. As noted in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452584#c13 , mldonkey appears to include a header file with a licence I wasn't able to identify. My concern is that (if I'm reading it correctly) it doesn't grant explicit permission to distribute derivative works, only "make and use"

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Can I talk about RPM Fusion?

2008-11-04 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Tuesday, 04 November 2008 at 18:35, Steven Moix wrote: > Hello fedora-legal people! > > I'd like to know if I'm allowed to talk about RPM Fusion in a news I'm > going to send to the French press? > We don't have software patents in Europe, I'm afraid that's not entirely true. The EPO has grant

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] CeCILL licence

2008-10-09 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Thursday, 09 October 2008 at 22:01, Tom spot Callaway wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 21:31 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > > Hi. > > > > SciLab has changed its licence to CeCILLv2[1], which claims to be GPLv2+ > > compatible. I tried rea

[Fedora-legal-list] CeCILL licence

2008-10-09 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
Hi. SciLab has changed its licence to CeCILLv2[1], which claims to be GPLv2+ compatible. I tried reading it and it gave me a headache. It seems to contain a few dubious passages[2]. Could RH Legal have a look at it and decide if it's OK to include code licensed under it in Fedora? Ideally, I'd li