Re: [flamebait] Lesser GPL

1999-02-02 Thread aqy6633
> > One of the main purpurses of Debian adherence to DFSG was often cited > > that any package can be used by anyone without the need to read license. > WTF? You know that this is wrong. There are lots of things you must not do > with any package, and that is for ex

Re: [flamebait] Lesser GPL

1999-02-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 02:46:47PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > One of the main purpurses of Debian adherence to DFSG was often cited > that any package can be used by anyone without the need to read license. WTF? You know that this is wrong. There are lots of things you must not do with a

Re: [flamebait] Lesser GPL

1999-02-02 Thread aqy6633
> Now consider the fact that the LGPL has a backdoor in it and allows > you to convert the work to GPL. Debian could select LesserGPL'ed > libraries that fit RMS's criterion and start converting them to GPL! > Debian should, of course, formalize the criteria for converting LGPL > libraries to GPL

Re: [flamebait] Lesser GPL

1999-02-02 Thread Raul Miller
Navindra Umanee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now consider the fact that the LGPL has a backdoor in it and allows > you to convert the work to GPL. Debian could select LesserGPL'ed > libraries that fit RMS's criterion and start converting them to GPL! > Debian should, of course, formalize the criter

[flamebait] Lesser GPL

1999-02-02 Thread Navindra Umanee
Montreal Tue Feb 2 13:54:50 1999 Have you guys seen RMS's article yet? http://x13.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=439484995&CONTEXT=917981479.400752729&hitnum=0 Now consider the fact that the LGPL has a backdoor in it and allows you to convert the work to GPL. Debian could select LesserGPL'ed librar

Re: Proposed Grail and JPython Licenses

1999-02-02 Thread Guido van Rossum
> I repeat: I think the license is free enough to go into main, but I still > would like to see it clarified. OK -- I'll see if I can get some words in. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

Re: Proposed Grail and JPython Licenses

1999-02-02 Thread John Hasler
Guido van Rossum writes: > I say there's no need to ask. Could a copy of Guido's message ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) be put in the copyright file? That would satisfy me that the package can be redistributed with full rights. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Proposed Grail and JPython Licenses

1999-02-02 Thread John Hasler
Guido van Rossum writes: > I'm not a lawyer either, but I repeat my opinion that the license allows > this. I think it does too, and I think it can go in Debian as-is. I would still prefer to see this clarified, though. Other licenses (the GPL, for example) do so. > Hmm... Cheap Bytes must hav