Re: Licences with mutually exclusive terms

2004-01-31 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it true that a copyright licence with mutually exclusive terms are > non-free? Further, is a licence saying: > >You may prepare, copy and distribute derived works of this > software. However, you may not modify this work. That is not mutually exclusive

Revised JasPer License

2004-01-31 Thread Michael Adams
Dear Ben and Others: In response to your most recent comments, I have further amended the draft license for the JasPer software. It appears that Image Power will approve the license as written below. I am still awaiting official approval. I think that this license should address all of your con

Re: GPL compatibility question.

2004-01-31 Thread Laurent Fousse
Hi and thanks for your quick reply, Le Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 08:24:34PM +, Andrew Suffield écrivait: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 07:17:23PM +0100, Laurent Fousse wrote: > > I'd like to have your opinion about a GPL compatibility issue. > > Libcanlock has been ITP'ed (#204933) and the goal is to h

Re: GPL compatibility question.

2004-01-31 Thread Billy Biggs
Andrew Suffield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > - one is taken from RFC 3174 > > (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3174.html, license terms at the end). > > Not a chance, that's nowhere near GPL-compatible. > > It also appears to be non-free in its own right. > > > I don't like the wording of "derivative

Re: GPL compatibility question.

2004-01-31 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 08:24:34PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > - one is taken from RFC 3174 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3174.html, > >license terms at the end). > > Not a chance, that's nowhere near GPL-compatible. > > It also appears to be non-free in its own right. And it's just an

Re: GPL compatibility question.

2004-01-31 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 07:17:23PM +0100, Laurent Fousse wrote: > I'd like to have your opinion about a GPL compatibility issue. > Libcanlock has been ITP'ed (#204933) and the goal is to have slrn use > it (#127901). However, slrn is GPL and libcanlock is made of several > files : > > - one is BS

GPL compatibility question.

2004-01-31 Thread Laurent Fousse
Hi debian-legal, I'd like to have your opinion about a GPL compatibility issue. Libcanlock has been ITP'ed (#204933) and the goal is to have slrn use it (#127901). However, slrn is GPL and libcanlock is made of several files : - one is BSD licensed - some are under the X11 license as found in

Re: XFree86 license difficulties

2004-01-31 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:31:44PM -0700, paul cannon wrote: > Several posters on slashdot and elsewhere have mentioned the similarity > between this and the old, obnoxious BSD "advertising clause": Let's nip that in the bud before people start wasting time over it. It's not really the advertising

Re: XFree86 license difficulties

2004-01-31 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-01-30 19:31:44 + paul cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: same reasons they give appear to apply also to the clause added by the XFree86 folks. That is, one cannot distribute something under the GPL with added restrictions like the one above quoted. I'm still thinking about this, but

crypto in non-free

2004-01-31 Thread Ian Beckwith
Hello. What is the policy on crypto in non-free? The initial crypto-in-main announcement excluded non-free. Is that still the case? I am packaging the latest ckermit, and I have enabled crypto support (kerberos 4 & 5, openssl, TLS, DES, CAST and support for an external ssh client). I failed to r