Re: Bug#20914: seyon package copyright (fwd)

1998-05-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Raul Miller wrote: >Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Am I the only one reading the following in the way that derived works are >> forbidden? >> >> " ...provided that in all above cases Seyon is intact >> and is not made part of any program either in whole or in

Re: Bug#20914: seyon package copyright (fwd)

1998-05-05 Thread Raul Miller
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am I the only one reading the following in the way that derived works are > forbidden? > > " ...provided that in all above cases Seyon is intact > and is not made part of any program either in whole or in part [...]." We need explicit permission to

Re: Bug#20914: seyon package copyright (fwd)

1998-05-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 03:42:28PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Mon, 4 May 1998, Raul Miller wrote: > I understand your concern here, but there is no restriction against > distributing modified binary, only modified source. Am I the only one reading the following in the way that derived works

Re: Bug#20914: seyon package copyright (fwd)

1998-05-04 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 4 May 1998, Raul Miller wrote: > Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems to me that we have accepted non-modified source as DFSG compliant > > as long as modified binaries are not restricted. > > We allow exceptions to point 3, as long as point 4 is satisfied > (explicit perm

Re: Bug#20914: seyon package copyright (fwd)

1998-05-04 Thread Raul Miller
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems to me that we have accepted non-modified source as DFSG compliant > as long as modified binaries are not restricted. We allow exceptions to point 3, as long as point 4 is satisfied (explicit permission to distribute software built from modified so

Re: Bug#20914: seyon package copyright (fwd)

1998-05-04 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 4 May 1998, Raul Miller wrote: > Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm happy that we can work with this license, as we distribute diffs. > > Thomas thinks otherwise. Thoughts? > > This license conflicts with point 3 of DFSG. We can't distribute > modified versions under the s

Re: Bug#20914: seyon package copyright (fwd)

1998-05-04 Thread Raul Miller
Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm happy that we can work with this license, as we distribute diffs. > Thomas thinks otherwise. Thoughts? This license conflicts with point 3 of DFSG. We can't distribute modified versions under the same terms as the original. -- Raul -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Bug#20914: seyon package copyright (fwd)

1998-05-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Forwarded to debian-devel to see what other people think. ] The copyright for seyon says: == Seyon is Copyright (c) 1992 of Muhammad M. Saggaf. Seyon is not public domain. Permission is granted to use and distribute Seyon