Re: pvpgn ITP

2003-12-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Monday December 29 2003 05:09, Robert Millan wrote: > I think there should be no problem, specialy since pvpgn hasn't recieved > any notice from Blizzard, and they're hosted in Germany where the DMCA > doesn't apply. (...) DMCA doesn't apply there, but the local flavour of EUCD (European Union

Re: SRFI copyright license

2003-12-28 Thread Jakob Bohm
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 02:16:45PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: > > I strongly disagree: the license is just saying that you can't > > publish a derivative work of SRFI X as SRFI X, and are otherwise free > > to derive works. > > Could you step throug

Re: OT: Database protection and why European law is different

2003-12-28 Thread Jakob Bohm
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:48:19PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > > Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> First, since the frequency can be construed as a fact, and therefore > >> is not copyrightable work of authorship, I'm not particularly > >>

Re: Call to Power 2 license

2003-12-28 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 01:28:56PM -0600, Ryan Underwood wrote: > So, I noticed CTP2 source was released a while back, and pondered > creating a package alongside the port efforts. However, I took a look > at the license: > > http://www.apolyton.net/csd.php > > and cringed. Is there anything th

pvpgn ITP

2003-12-28 Thread Robert Millan
Hi! I recently ITPed pvpgn (#224163) and would like to ensure there's no legal problem adding it to Debian. The background: - pvpgn is a fork of the (dead) bnetd project. - bnetd was sued by Blizzard on basis of the DMCA, the current legal status is undetermined - in Debian, we already ha

Call to Power 2 license

2003-12-28 Thread Ryan Underwood
So, I noticed CTP2 source was released a while back, and pondered creating a package alongside the port efforts. However, I took a look at the license: http://www.apolyton.net/csd.php and cringed. Is there anything that this license *does* allow you do to with respect to modification and redis