Re: GPL version 1, and "Copyright (c) ...."

2001-12-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
David Coe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > > > I'm not sure we should worry about history. It's not too much trouble > > to delete it from all future releases. Give the upstream author a > > chance first; how long has it been since you asked him a

Re: GPL version 1, and "Copyright (c) ...."

2001-12-18 Thread David Coe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > I'm not sure we should worry about history. It's not too much trouble > to delete it from all future releases. Give the upstream author a > chance first; how long has it been since you asked him about the file? Less than 48 hours; how long do y

Re: GPL version 1, and "Copyright (c) ...."

2001-12-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
David Coe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, I think I've convinced myself that oobr.rc just contains a partially- > filled-in copyright template, and was probably released that way > by mistake. (The upstream author has not as yet answered my questions.) That's as well as may be, but it's not in

Re: GPL version 1, and "Copyright (c) ...."

2001-12-18 Thread David Coe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > Is that the actual text of the file? > > If so, it seems to assert copyright, but doesn't grant any license. > We should not be distributing it. Yes, that's the actual text, but I think it was an upstream [non]editing error... Here's the releva

Re: GPL version 1, and "Copyright (c) ...."

2001-12-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
David Coe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have subsequently found a copy of the GPL version 1 (in the vm > source package), and will distribute it in the oo-browser package; so > the only remaining question is: > > David Coe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Q2.: There is *one* file in the source p

Re: GPL version 1, and "Copyright (c) ...."

2001-12-18 Thread David Coe
I have subsequently found a copy of the GPL version 1 (in the vm source package), and will distribute it in the oo-browser package; so the only remaining question is: David Coe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Q2.: There is *one* file in the source package that contains this > (verbatim): > > "Cop

Re: GDB manual

2001-12-18 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 09:56:55PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > 04:40am [EMAIL PROTECTED]/0 [~/gdb-5.1/gdb/doc] grep -i invariant *.info > > > gdb.info:Invariant Sections being "A Sample GDB Session" and "Free > > > Software", > > > gdbint.info:Invariant Sections being "Algorithms" and "Po

GPL version 1, and "Copyright (c) ...."

2001-12-18 Thread David Coe
Hi again. I've just adopted 'oo-browser' which is licensed as follows: (source file BR-COPY) === * Copyright === The follow

Re: wpoison, is it okay?

2001-12-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
"Sunnanvind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The way I conjecture the license writers intentions; you still can point > to a rival, forket wpoison project *as long as you don't use the official > image*; and if you don't like image links, just don't link to the page at > all (in which case, don't

Re: wpoison, is it okay?

2001-12-18 Thread Sunnanvind
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 01:35:48PM +, Sunnanvind wrote: > Er, no, that's not how you read it. You conjectured just like I did. > The actual license text says nothing of the sort. Ehm, yes. That's what I meant. Sorry. > > Here, I disagree. > > This is a different situation since in the cas