On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 12:01:32AM -0500, Andreas Pour wrote:
> Jeff Licquia wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 03:00:40AM -0500, Andreas Pour wrote:
> > > Jeff Licquia wrote:
> > The BSD license places no restrictions on what license you can grant
> > to the people you give code to.
>
> That
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 05:01:54AM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> Seriously, it's the contrast between a meritless lawsuit and no
> lawsuit at all. Meritless lawsuits are expensive; we'll get back to
> you after we IPO. Ask the css-auth victims...
It's not just the lawsuit threat. It's also the e
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 06:19:12PM -0500, Andreas Pour wrote:
> To be fair, people were offended by the Debian statement that
> distributing KDE is unlawful and to a lesser extent by the tirades
> offered by *some* Debian developers.
Being offended isn't going to solve any real problem.
The funda
On Jan 30, Andreas Pour wrote:
> > [Personally, I think if you wrote the software yourself and link it
> > against Qt, it's pretty obvious from a legal standpoint that you
> > accept people linking it against Qt.
>
> I think so too. So why not just exclude kgv and kfloppy and distribute the
> rest
Chris Lawrence wrote:
> On Jan 29, Andreas Pour wrote:
> > > (3) real permission to distribute from the authors.
> >
> > I do not quite know what you mean by this, but if you mean that to
> > conform to your practice noted above of confirming from package
> > authors that packages can be distribut
On Jan 29, Andreas Pour wrote:
> > (3) real permission to distribute from the authors.
>
> I do not quite know what you mean by this, but if you mean that to
> conform to your practice noted above of confirming from package
> authors that packages can be distributed by Debian, I will see if I
> ca
Raul Miller wrote:
[ ... ]
> Debian tries to maintain a good relationship with the upstream authors.
> We ask for permission to distribute code, and if it's clearly granted,
> and we have a maintainer who wants to maintain the code we distribute it.
>
> If we don't have clear permission, then goo
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 05:34:23PM -0600, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> If you want to allow either total BSD-like freedom or complete
> proprietariness, you should write a license that forbids any middle
> ground. It strikes me as odd that someone would be pissed about the
> GPL's restrictions yet be perf
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 12:01:32AM -0500, Andreas Pour wrote:
> Now, if you truly mean what you said below -- namely
>
> Debian doesn't have millions of IPO dollars to finance a legal fight.
> And our actions can affect our distributors as well. Therefore, we
> have to be careful.
>
9 matches
Mail list logo
