Re: Bug#333603: ITP: acpica-unix -- an ASL compiler/decompiler

2005-10-14 Thread John Hasler
Henning Makholm writes: > But in fact "All rights reserved" is just legal boilerplate that has no > freedom-related consequences at all. It used to be (before the USA joined > the Berne treaty, iirc) that this particular language was a formal > necessity for asserting any copyright in the first pla

Re: Bug#333603: ITP: acpica-unix -- an ASL compiler/decompiler

2005-10-14 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The copyright notice says "all rights reserved" right before the > rest of the license spells out several rights which are, in fact, > not reserved. Those several rights are probably (I haven't read the full license) granted only subject to certain c

Re: Bug#333603: ITP: acpica-unix -- an ASL compiler/decompiler

2005-10-14 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Fri, October 14, 2005 10:46 am, Peter Samuelson said: > > [Mattia Dongili] >> * Package name: acpica-unix >> >> iasl compiles ASL (ACPI Source Language) into AML (ACPI Machine >> Language). This AML is suitable for inclusion as a DSDT in system >> firmware. It also can disassemble AML, for d

Re: Bug#333603: ITP: acpica-unix -- an ASL compiler/decompiler

2005-10-14 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Mattia Dongili] > * Package name: acpica-unix > > iasl compiles ASL (ACPI Source Language) into AML (ACPI Machine > Language). This AML is suitable for inclusion as a DSDT in system > firmware. It also can disassemble AML, for debugging purposes. The name is a bit silly, IMO. It's not as t