Re: Patent issues

2004-02-18 Thread Brian M. Carlson
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:22:29PM +0100, Roland Stigge wrote: > I wonder if it is still possible for sarge to be released before 7 July > 2004 (international expiration of US4558302). If not, we could start to > move GIF/LZW patent encumbered packages from non-free and contrib to > main. They wil

Re: Patent issues

2004-02-18 Thread Andreas Barth
* Roland Stigge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040218 18:40]: > I wonder if it is still possible for sarge to be released before 7 July > 2004 (international expiration of US4558302). If not, we could start to > move GIF/LZW patent encumbered packages from non-free and contrib to > main. I think this is a g

Re: debian-legal review of licenses

2004-02-18 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > OSI guidelines are very similar to ours (they based from our DFSG). > It would interessting to find the differences and see if we should > update our DFSG. In theory, it might be usefull, but there is a significant difference between the OSD and t

Re: debian-legal review of licenses

2004-02-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Matt Palmer wrote: >Hands up anyone who wants to take on the job of official d-legal summariser. Heh. >I can think of a few people who *could* take the job, unfortunately, those >qualified also tend to be those most qualified in other areas. Branden would do an *excellent* job. He's probably to

Re: free licensing of TEI Guidelines

2004-02-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Branden Robinson wrote: (in http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/debian-legal-200402/msg00145.html) I agree with Branden entirely. Uh, "what he said". Sorry for the me-too-ism. --Nathanael

Re: free licensing of TEI Guidelines

2004-02-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
>However, there seem to me to be a few obvious caveats: >* I would not want to be blamed for bad advice someone else added to > mine; thus I would want modifications to be indicated; This is just fine and DFSG-free. >* I would not want someone else to change my biography provided in the > "About

Patent issues

2004-02-18 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, I wonder if it is still possible for sarge to be released before 7 July 2004 (international expiration of US4558302). If not, we could start to move GIF/LZW patent encumbered packages from non-free and contrib to main. More generally, I hope I'm not the only one aware of the fact that current

Re: debian-legal review of licenses

2004-02-18 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote: * Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-13 04:09]: Hm, that would involve somebody monitoring the OSI lists, because an Are the OSI lists public (sorry, cannot check, I'm off-line at the moment waiting for my plane to Malaga)? Is anyon

Re: debian-legal review of licenses

2004-02-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
* Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-13 04:09]: > Hm, that would involve somebody monitoring the OSI lists, because an Are the OSI lists public (sorry, cannot check, I'm off-line at the moment waiting for my plane to Malaga)? Is anyone from -legal following them already? > unsolicited

Re: debian-legal review of licenses

2004-02-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
* Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-12 00:01]: > > Of course, perhaps the best thing for -legal to do is have people > > self-nominate themselves to this position, and then have a small > > vote. > > Hmm.. do we really need to have a single person charged with writing > all of the summa

Re: debian-legal review of licenses

2004-02-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
* Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-12 09:17]: > Hands up anyone who wants to take on the job of official d-legal summariser. > I > can think of a few people who *could* take the job, unfortunately, those > qualified also tend to be those most qualified in other areas. > > I certainly

Re: debian-legal review of licenses

2004-02-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
* Simon Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-11 18:01]: > I'm willing to take on a position to summarize our discussions, > and present them to upstream. I think I can do this diplomatically, and > I have some experience with this. (I was responsible for ironing out Thanks. -- Martin Michlma