Re: Interesting Licensing Issue -- Crafty

1999-05-03 Thread John Hasler
Paul Serice wrote: > > Can Dr. Hyatt, the original author of Crafty, restrict use of the > program such that he is the only person who can enter the original > program into a chess competition and still have a license that is Debian > free? Marcus writes: > No. Paul Serice wrote: > Can Dr. Hyat

Re: Interesting Licensing Issue -- Crafty

1999-05-03 Thread Mark Rafn
On Mon, 3 May 1999, Paul Serice wrote: > The problem is that persons other than the original author, Dr. Hyatt, > have been entering Crafty into computer chess competitions. And claiming that Dr. Hyatt did not write the original code? This is probably a violation already. If the current license

Re: Interesting Licensing Issue -- Crafty

1999-05-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 02:27:13PM -0500, Paul Serice wrote: > > Can Dr. Hyatt, the original author of Crafty, restrict use of the > program such that he is the only person who can enter the original > program into a chess competition and still have a license that is Debian > free? No. > Can Dr

[knghtbrd@debian.org: Re: Interesting Licensing Issue -- Crafty]

1999-05-03 Thread Joseph Carter
Don't ask me how I missed not redirecting this message to -legal, I was actually thinking about it as I was pressing the little reply button. In any event ... -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBEThe Source Co

Interesting Licensing Issue -- Crafty

1999-05-03 Thread Paul Serice
Maybe I'm uninformed, but Crafty, a computer chess program, is in the very near future going to have a licensing problem that is new to me. As of Crafty v16.5, Crafty meets the Debian definition of "free", but v16.6 (maybe) and v16.7 (for sure) will have a new license. The problem is that persons

[ugs@laci.net: Interesting Licensing Issue -- Crafty]

1999-05-03 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
This was on debian-devel, I forwarded it here where it is more appropriately placed. I'm in finals mode; y'all know what that means. I'd like to help out and address some legal issues. Save 'em up for next week and I will address as many as I can. I have PGP going finally. I'll post my public

Re: llpl == non-free ?

1999-05-03 Thread Henning Makholm
Linh Dang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is LLPL DFSG compliant ? I believe it is, to the extent that the copyright notices on the individual files do not restrict the right to produce and distribute modified versions. Some LaTeX packages (e.g. molticol.sty until the recent license clarification)

[jw@witch.westfalen.de: Re: LDP Licence, was: Re: my decision about LDP licence]

1999-05-03 Thread Andrea Fanfani
I' m sorry for the delay in this answer... i have surf on the page of Debian documentation project but i have not found a licence... now i forward your message on debian-legal, maybe somebody can help you... for the list: Jutta is looking for a licence for his HOWTO on wine program, i have say h

llpl == non-free ?

1999-05-03 Thread Linh Dang
Is LLPL DFSG compliant ? zcat /usr/doc/texmf/latex/base/lppl.txt.gz : LaTeX Project Public License LPPL Version 1.0 1999-03-01 Copyright 1999 LaTeX3 Project Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but mod