Re: Draft new DFSG - r1.4

1998-12-10 Thread john
Raul writes: > Only if you use (non-trivial) literal quotes from those works. I don't use any. That's my point. No one expects me to credit everyone from whom my knowledge can be said to be "derived". The primary purpose of references in an academic publication is to permit others to check th

Re: Draft new DFSG - r1.4

1998-12-10 Thread Raul Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working on a perl application right now, and much of my knowledge of > perl is derived from _Programming Perl_ and the _Perl Cookbook_. Does that > mean that I must credit Christiansen, Wall, Scwartz, and Torkington on a > splash screen? Only if

Re: nasm license: is this DFSG free?

1998-12-10 Thread john
Juan Cespedes writes: > Here's a copy of the license. Any comments will be greatly > appreciated; the author is willing to change it if it doesn't meet our > needs. (BTW: I think it's FDSG free): I don't. The author may have meant it to be free, but it is so poorly drafted that it can only be in

Re: Draft new DFSG - r1.4

1998-12-10 Thread john
Milan Zamazal writes: > The problem here ... which is worth to discuss is: There is some > knowledge, from which you derive other knowledge and present it as your > achievement. Is it OK to require you have also reference the original > knowledge in your presentation? I'm working on a perl applic

Re: nasm license: is this DFSG free?

1998-12-10 Thread Ben Pfaff
Juan Cespedes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: III. Modified forms of the Software may be created and distributed as long as the authors are informed of this action if possible, Requiring notification for modification makes it non-free IMHO. But I'm not sure where this falls under the DFSG.

Re: nasm license: is this DFSG free?

1998-12-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 16:44:52 +0100, Juan Cespedes wrote: > Here's a copy of the license. Any comments will be greatly > appreciated; the author is willing to change it if it doesn't meet our > needs. The nasm author(s) have said they'd release it under GPL; that would clear all problems

nasm license: is this DFSG free?

1998-12-10 Thread Juan Cespedes
Here's a copy of the license. Any comments will be greatly appreciated; the author is willing to change it if it doesn't meet our needs. (BTW: I think it's FDSG free): Terms and Conditions for the use of the Netwide Assembler = Can

Re: I'm not sure if this is free.

1998-12-10 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Richard Braakman wrote: > The package tao, currently in Incoming, has this paragraph in its license: > > You may copy, modify, distribute, or sublicense the LICENCED PRODUCT > without charge as part of a product or software program developed by > you, so long as you pre

I'm not sure if this is free.

1998-12-10 Thread Richard Braakman
The package tao, currently in Incoming, has this paragraph in its license: You may copy, modify, distribute, or sublicense the LICENCED PRODUCT without charge as part of a product or software program developed by you, so long as you preserve the functionality of interoperating with the Obj

Re: Draft new DFSG - r1.4

1998-12-10 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "JH" == john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JH> Milan Zamazal writes: >> This is a question. You can look on publication which was >> received through the program [SWI-Prolog] as a derived work of >> some kind. It can be looked in similar way as e.g. output of ray >> trac

Re: Draft new DFSG - r1.4

1998-12-10 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "RM" == Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RM> What's "research"? RM> For example, how is it different from searching? :-) I said I'm not talking about particular license (so not about particular wording as well), but about things pointed out by some particular license. Mila