Re: partial license audit of XFree86 4.3.0

2004-02-10 Thread Josh Triplett
Branden Robinson wrote: > B) Copyright 1985, 1986 The Regents of the University of California. >All rights reserved. > >This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by >James A. Woods, derived from original work by Spencer Thomas >and Joseph Orost. > >Redistributio

Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license

2004-02-10 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Branden Robinson wrote: [SNIP] >My findings follow. Please feel free to ignore the references >to DFSG-freeness, which is a concern primarily for the Debian >project, and my footnote discussion of unpacking a Debian source >package. [SNIP] >If this next part bores you, skip t

Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license

2004-02-10 Thread Kendall Bennett
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The path to clearing away GPL-incompatibilties due to the BSD > advertising clause for the entire XFree86 source tree (as of > XFree86 4.3.0, anyway) seems fairly short. Given that, it seems a > shame to entrench a similar incompatibility both broadly

Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license

2004-02-10 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:10:04PM -0500, Leon Shiman wrote: > - Begin Forwarded Message - > From: David Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [forum] GPL-incompatible license [...] > Basically, XFree86 li

Re: Advice for software license

2004-02-10 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tuesday February 10 2004 07:32, Don Armstrong wrote: > First off, debian-legal isn't really a place for distributing advice > on which license to choose, although we can let you know which ones > are DFSG Free, and which ones are likely to conflict with other > libraries. > (...) Well, the requ