Re: Bug#68256: License problems with TinyMUSH

2003-08-17 Thread Joel Baker
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:31:00PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 15:21, Joel Baker wrote: > > The TinyMUSH package is not DFSG-free, > > Agreed. There are some additional problems: > > > * TinyMUSH 3.0 Copyright > > * > > * Users of this software incur the obligation to

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2003-08-17 Thread Thanks
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Re: A possible approach in "solving" the FDL problem

2003-08-17 Thread MJ Ray
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> They are using definitions which are *different* to the normal. > If that were true, and if there actually *was* a 'normal' definition, > why would they be using a different definition in the first place? Because it suits their purpose. > I say you're

Re: Bug#68256: License problems with TinyMUSH

2003-08-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 15:21, Joel Baker wrote: > The TinyMUSH package is not DFSG-free, Agreed. There are some additional problems: > * TinyMUSH 3.0 Copyright > * > * Users of this software incur the obligation to make their best efforts to > * inform the authors of noteworthy uses of this softwa

Re: A possible approach in "solving" the FDL problem

2003-08-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 06:46, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > As Dutch is my native language, I don't think it's hard to understand > why I misinterpreted the DFSG at my first reading. I'm sure I'm not > alone, and I'm also sure Dutch is not the only language which is alone > in this. Out of curiosity, w

Re: A possible approach in "solving" the FDL problem

2003-08-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 16:49, Fedor Zuev wrote: > And for Someone will be much harder to prove that document X > is not a software, if Someone two months earlier call X a software, > say, in the mailing list. :-) Not really. First of all, I just checked: The word "Software" is used once in U

Re: A possible approach in "solving" the FDL problem

2003-08-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 09:58, Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote: > DFSG use word "software" which have several meanings. Because DFSG does > not specify which particular meaning it use, there is a way to speculate. Actually it *does* define what it means. See Social Contract, Clause 1. It defines it as.

Bug#68256: License problems with TinyMUSH

2003-08-17 Thread Joel Baker
The TinyMUSH package is not DFSG-free, and probably never can be (at least, not without a near-complete rewrite). Speaking as someone who has been involved with the source code various TinyMUSH servers for ten years, who lives with one of the listed authors of the 2.2 version, and who is one of the