Re: RFC on MBF (non-freeness of "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil")

2012-11-16 Thread Jon Dowland
user j...@debian.org usertags 692614 + good-not-evil usertags 692619 + good-not-evil usertags 692624 + good-not-evil usertags 692625 + good-not-evil usertags 692627 + good-not-evil usertags 692628 + good-not-evil usertags 692629 + good-not-evil usertags 692630 + good-not-evil usertags 692631 + good

Re: RFC on MBF (non-freeness of "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil")

2012-11-12 Thread Leo Antunes
On 11/11/12 17:17, Michael Banck wrote: > So how should we proceed? Is this dire enough that we need to repackage > original tarballs, removing code under the JSON license? Or can we > postpone this after the wheezy release and only patch out the offending > code for now? IANAL, but I believe th

Re: RFC on MBF (non-freeness of "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil")

2012-11-11 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:25:51PM +0100, Leo 'costela' Antunes wrote: > Ansgar has recently made an MBF against all packages including the > problematic JSON license term "The Software shall be used for Good, not > Evil". From what I've seen, most - if not all - of the affected packages > are

Re: RFC on MBF (non-freeness of "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil")

2012-11-09 Thread Jon Dowland
CCing Ansgar On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:25:51PM +0100, Leo 'costela' Antunes wrote: > Ansgar has recently made an MBF against all packages including the > problematic JSON license term "The Software shall be used for Good, not > Evil". I've found one of these - #692614 - is the whole set collecte

Re: RFC on MBF (non-freeness of "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil")

2012-11-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 07:13:45PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Donnerstag, 8. November 2012, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > As far as I can see Mr Crockford _enjoys_ being asked to change his > > license. So no, please don't feed the troll. > > As much as I think this licence is stupid (from my free s

Re: RFC on MBF (non-freeness of "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil")

2012-11-08 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 19:13, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Donnerstag, 8. November 2012, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > As far as I can see Mr Crockford _enjoys_ being asked to change his > > license. So no, please don't feed the troll. > As much as I think this licence is stupid (from my free software point of

Re: RFC on MBF (non-freeness of "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil")

2012-11-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 8. November 2012, Jakub Wilk wrote: > As far as I can see Mr Crockford _enjoys_ being asked to change his > license. So no, please don't feed the troll. As much as I think this licence is stupid (from my free software point of view), I don't think he should be called a troll,

Re: RFC on MBF (non-freeness of "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil")

2012-11-08 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Leo 'costela' Antunes , 2012-11-08, 16:25: Ansgar has recently made an MBF against all packages including the problematic JSON license term "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil". From what I've seen, most - if not all - of the affected packages are using in-source libraries copyrigh

Re: RFC on MBF (non-freeness of "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil")

2012-11-08 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:25:51PM +0100, Leo 'costela' Antunes wrote: > Hi, > > Ansgar has recently made an MBF against all packages including the > problematic JSON license term "The Software shall be used for Good, not > Evil". From what I've seen, most - if not all - of the affected packages >

Re: RFC on MBF (non-freeness of "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil")

2012-11-08 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:25:51PM +0100, Leo 'costela' Antunes wrote: > Should we maybe try again? As Ansgar > mentioned in one bugreport, the license is considered non-free not only > by us, but by Fedora as well[1] (and it's also notOSI-recognized) FWIW, by FSF too: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

RFC on MBF (non-freeness of "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil")

2012-11-08 Thread Leo 'costela' Antunes
Hi, Ansgar has recently made an MBF against all packages including the problematic JSON license term "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil". From what I've seen, most - if not all - of the affected packages are using in-source libraries copyright JSON.org, which AFAIK means convincing a s