Re: License DSFG-free?

2002-12-02 Thread Brian M. Carlson
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:25:43AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > according to my ITP on debian-devel and in the BTS, I'm going to package > tinycdb. First the current license for this package: > > |This package is written by Michael Tokarev, based on ideas and API > |found in cdb-0.75 package by

Re: License DSFG-free?

2002-12-02 Thread Steve Langasek
Hello, On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:25:43AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > according to my ITP on debian-devel and in the BTS, I'm going to package > tinycdb. First the current license for this package: > |This package is written by Michael Tokarev, based on ideas and API > |found in cdb-0.75 packa

Re: Hardware license

2002-12-02 Thread Thomas Uwe Gruettmueller
Hi On Monday 02 December 2002 21:04, Walter Landry wrote: > Rich Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi > > Yes; I'm currently looking at that and the OpenIPCore > > license. > > > > http://www.opencores.org/OIPC/OHGPL.shtml. > > > > Are these both comp

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems like a polite letter to the appropriate standards body would > be in order here. The current license is close enough to what is > needed that there are really only minor modifications needed. The > license needs to explicitly allow distributio

Re: Hardware license

2002-12-02 Thread Walter Landry
Rich Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tuesday 26 November 2002 01:59 pm, Rich Walker wrote: > > > We've been putting together some robot-related software and hardware. We > > > want to release this with a DFSG-compliant license set. For the > >

Re: Hardware license

2002-12-02 Thread Walter Landry
Rich Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [snip] > > > > Umm; the .sch and .pcb files are not really source code; they are more > > > like .pdf files. Also, I'm using a GPL rather than BSD license for the > > > traditional philosophical reasons: this i

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-02 Thread Walter Landry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) wrote: > Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There's another limitation in this clause, though: "... and used in > > documentation or programs". This would preclude using the files as > > part of a work of art, for example. Is that too limi

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's another limitation in this clause, though: "... and used in > documentation or programs". This would preclude using the files as > part of a work of art, for example. Is that too limiting for the DFSG? Documentation of *anything*, however,

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > According to http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.html there's > > a version 3.2. > > > > Hmm, is this file Free? There's a license on that same page: > > > > Limitations on Rights to R

License DSFG-free?

2002-12-02 Thread Christian Kurz
[I'm not subscribed to debian-legal, so if there are any issues with the license, then please send me a copy of the e-Mail. I'm goint to set the Mail-Followup-To header accordingly.] Hi, according to my ITP on debian-devel and in the BTS, I'm going to package tinycdb. First the current license fo