Re: Removal of Email Address

2002-09-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 04:01:53PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 11:31:32PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Debian does not redact its mailing list archives. > > It seems from looking at the URL posted that this is an unusual situation -- > the request is coming from s

Re: one liner license, sufficient for DFSG?

2002-09-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 09:16:08AM -0700, Nick Moffitt wrote: > An interesting side-anecdote. I was talking to Bradley Kuhn > last year sometime, and he says the FSF's folks had to laugh and agree > that "DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT" is a valid Free Software license (I > think they had receive

Re: Knuth statement on renaming cm files and Licence violation.

2002-09-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
David Carlisle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The text of Knuth's statement appears to have been removed from all the > obvious places where it was posted at the time, but I turned up a copy > at this address: And note that it begins with "I decided to put these fonts into the public domain; all I

Debian registered as TM in Spain

2002-09-03 Thread list
Hi Don't know if Debian people already know about this: http://www.symlink.ch/article.pl?sid=02/09/03/1147242&mode=nested (german) http://www.marcanet.com/Acceso_Gratuito/CPRespMN.ASP?Num=1&L1=1&N=1&C1=42&Nmb=debian&Tp=Es&Sob=Marca (spanish) http://barrapunto.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/02/1020219&mo

Re: Debian registered by a trade as TM in Spain!

2002-09-03 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Martes, 3 de Setembro de 2002 ás 10:59:45 -0500, Steve Langasek escribía: > The trademark is shown as registered in class 42: After some digging, I found the applications: M2321780, M2321781, M2321782. All three were submitted within one minute, by the same person. The first one claims the

Re: one liner license, sufficient for DFSG?

2002-09-03 Thread Nick Moffitt
begin Oliver Kurth quotation: > --*snip*-- > You can use this code in whatever way you want, as long as you don't > try to claim you wrote it. > --*snip*-- An interesting side-anecdote. I was talking to Bradley Kuhn last year sometime, and he says the FSF's folks had to laugh and agree

Re: Debian registered by a trade as TM in Spain!

2002-09-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 01:25:20PM +0200, Ignacio García Fernández wrote: > Yes, you have read well. > In Spain Debian has been registered as a Trade Mark. > You can find info at > http://www.marcanet.com/Acceso_Gratuito/CPRespMN.ASP?Num=1&L1=1&N=1&C1=42&Nmb=debian&Tp=Es&Sob=Marca > The page is

Re: one liner license, sufficient for DFSG?

2002-09-03 Thread Oliver Kurth
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 03:26:57PM +, M. Drew Streib wrote: > On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 08:17:08AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > --*snip*-- > > > You can use this code in whatever way you want, as long as you don't > > > try to claim you wrote it. > > > --*snip*-- > > > > That works ou

Re: one liner license, sufficient for DFSG?

2002-09-03 Thread M. Drew Streib
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 08:17:08AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > --*snip*-- > > You can use this code in whatever way you want, as long as you don't > > try to claim you wrote it. > > --*snip*-- > > That works out to be public domain essentially. It would be nice if software > developers

Re: one liner license, sufficient for DFSG?

2002-09-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 03 September 2002 06:29, Oliver Kurth wrote: > Hello! > > I would like to package dumpasn1 for Debian, dowloaded from > http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/. It has no license, except > for this sentence in the source: > > --*snip*-- > You can use this code in whatever way you want, as

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one liner license, sufficient for DFSG?

2002-09-03 Thread Oliver Kurth
Hello! I would like to package dumpasn1 for Debian, dowloaded from http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/. It has no license, except for this sentence in the source: --*snip*-- You can use this code in whatever way you want, as long as you don't try to claim you wrote it. --*snip*-- I think this

Debian registered by a trade as TM in Spain!

2002-09-03 Thread Ignacio García Fernández
Yes, you have read well. In Spain Debian has been registered as a Trade Mark. You can find info at http://www.marcanet.com/Acceso_Gratuito/CPRespMN.ASP?Num=1&L1=1&N=1&C1=42&Nmb=debian&Tp=Es&Sob=Marca The page is in Spanish, but it's easy to understand, you introduce a name you want to register,

Knuth statement on renaming cm files and Licence violation.

2002-09-03 Thread David Carlisle
Having been away I just have just (rather depressingly) caught up with the August archive of latex licence discussion. There seems to be the usual quota of misinformation concerning the tex licence, but one particular point was raised. As has been mentioned the "rename clause" of computer modern

Re: truetype font licensing

2002-09-03 Thread starner
>> http://bibliofile.mc.duke.edu/gww/fonts/Unicode.html > >This set of fonts is distributed under a license which contains the >following clause: > > Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, > this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentati

Re: truetype font licensing

2002-09-03 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
All spelling and capitalization in context in the license quotes below. Brian M. Carlson wrote: > I've been searching for public domain fonts, and there are several sites > that I've found. Some of them contain non-free fonts as well, but the > public domain ones are clearly marked. I'm not sure

Re: autoconf/Artistic compatibility

2002-09-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 01:09:39AM +0100, Stephen Stafford wrote: > I am in the process of discussions with upstream about the licensing for a > new package. > > The package build system is autoconf based. > > Upstream really likes the Artistic license and would prefer to release with > that. >