Re: Logo license update?

1999-01-18 Thread James A. Treacy
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 03:27:50PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The Debian logo license is expired. Is there a plan to update it or > > automatically roll it over again? > > Now that we have the constitution we can just vote on the license so we > don't

Re: Intent to package: vcg

1999-01-18 Thread John Hasler
Marcus Brinkmann writes: > Nevertheless, the GPL says the source code is the preferred format to change > the program. > We can't redistribute this until we get our hands on the normal source under > the same license. De-obfuscating the code (which is permitted by the license) would produce an or

RE: Logo license update?

1999-01-18 Thread Darren Benham
That was the next issue I wanted to tackle after the proposed DFSG update. On 18-Jan-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The Debian logo license is expired. Is there a plan to update it or > automatically roll it over again? > -- ==

[OOPS!] Re: non-root password lookups?

1999-01-18 Thread J. S. Connell
My apologies - my fingers went faster than my brain and I sent this to the wrong list by mistake. *blush* --Jeff

Re: non-root password lookups?

1999-01-18 Thread J. S. Connell
On 18 Jan 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > I heared on Solaris you have a daemon, which takes username/password > and tells you if the combination is OK. rpc.pwdauthd. Nice idea, but Linux doesn't have (as far as I am aware) any kind of a credentials mechanism so you know you're talking to a _r

Re: Logo license update?

1999-01-18 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The Debian logo license is expired. Is there a plan to update it or > automatically roll it over again? Now that we have the constitution we can just vote on the license so we don't have to extend it every couple of months. Wichert. --

Re: Intent to package: vcg

1999-01-18 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Philipp Frauenfelder wrote: > True. Here is an excerpt of this ugly code (I'm sending as is, > no line breakin): Looks like code to remove nodes from a double-linked list. The uglifying seems quite simple to fix though, using a vi-macro and indent I got it readble in a couple of seconds

Re: Logo license update?

1999-01-18 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The Debian logo license is expired. Is there a plan to update it or > automatically roll it over again? Why not change it to a constantly rolling over license. The way I understand it, we have this license to prevent bad things from being done with

Re: Intent to package: vcg

1999-01-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 07:37:38AM +0100, Philipp Frauenfelder wrote: > > This should be possible. the #ifdefs are not uglified and what I > copied from the source above does not look to ugly. If it's > really necessary to change something one could renicify the > source. Nevertheless, the GPL sa

Logo license update?

1999-01-18 Thread servis
The Debian logo license is expired. Is there a plan to update it or automatically roll it over again? Just curious, -- Brian Servis - "Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time

Re: Intent to package: vcg

1999-01-18 Thread Philipp Frauenfelder
Hi, Craig Sanders: > alternatively, the uglified files are GPL-ed, so it is permissable to > de-uglify them :-) True. Here is an excerpt of this ugly code (I'm sending as is, no line breakin): { GNODE h,*hp; assert((node)); ; if ((( node )->next) /*;static void gs_ide30 (node); */ ) (( (( node

Re: Would this comply with DFSG?

1999-01-18 Thread Henning Makholm
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Your dual-license scheme would be DFSG-compliant. I'm not so sure about that, given that DFSG talks about allowing derived works to be distributed under the *same* license as the original. Here is my current attempt to dodge around that: Foobar is copy

Re: Intent to package: vcg

1999-01-18 Thread Henning Makholm
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > alternatively, the uglified files are GPL-ed, so it is permissable to > de-uglify them :-) > depending on how hairy they are, it might be no more than a few hours > work with gnu indent and vi (s/vi/your preferred text editor/) It's not as bad as it co