Re: [vorlon@netexpress.net: Re: Bug#181969: [mdadams@ece.uvic.ca: Re: JasPer licensing wrt Debian Linux]]

2004-01-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:42:09AM -0800, Michael Adams wrote: > Can anyone give me an actual example of a project that > would like to use the JasPer JPEG-2000 codec in a non-interoperable > way? Almighty duh of all duhs, JPEG-2010. Even the original authors probably won't be able to do it, if th

Re: latex2html license: A Letter to Leeds University

2004-01-03 Thread Matt Black
On Sun 4 January 2004 02:55, Roland Stigge wrote: > since we agreed that the current latex2html license is non-free[1] and I > moved the package to non-free, the original author (Nikos Drakos) and > the current maintainer (Ross Moore) signalled willingness to change the > license. But we possibly n

Re: DFSG Freeness of Patent Reciprocity Clauses

2004-01-03 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > We must look at the entire freeness of a work, not just the copyright > freeness. I think this is fine advice. The Apple Public Source License (APSL) has a clause that makes licensees choose between continuing to be an APSL licensee and allowing Apple to infringe on t

Re: DFSG Freeness of Patent Reciprocity Clauses

2004-01-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Jan 2, 2004, at 11:00, Walter Landry wrote: Section 2(b) is just a patent grant. So if a Recipient invokes patent litigation against a Contributor, then the license effectively becomes mute about patents. I don't see how that can be DFSG-unfree, since we have a number of DFSG-free licenses

latex2html license: A Letter to Leeds University

2004-01-03 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, since we agreed that the current latex2html license is non-free[1] and I moved the package to non-free, the original author (Nikos Drakos) and the current maintainer (Ross Moore) signalled willingness to change the license. But we possibly need an agreement from Leeds University. I prepared a