Re: MPlayer reloaded

2004-03-17 Thread Walter Landry
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Diego Biurrun wrote: > > We had modified it, but it was not labeled as such. Clearly a > > license violation but one easily remedied. So I added the line > > > > Modified for use with MPlayer, see the CVS log for details. > > Ide

Re: problem with missing license -- what's the procedure ?

2004-03-17 Thread Walter Landry
Jeremie Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm packaging miBoot, which is an oldworld powermac bootloader, to be > able to cleanly build d-i boot floppies. However, the archive > distributed by upstream is missing a license. > > I'm about to send a mail to the author about this, so: >

Re: The MySQL FOSS Exception v0.1

2004-03-17 Thread Zak Greant
Greetings Andres, Thanks for writing. On Mar 16, 2004, at 01:01, Andres Salomon wrote: (CC'ing debian-legal for any suggestions they may have, as well) Excellent! ... Congrats. Hopefully we'll see v0.2 very soon. :) We have feedback from many people now to integrate, so there should be

problem with missing license -- what's the procedure ?

2004-03-17 Thread Jeremie Koenig
Hello, I'm packaging miBoot, which is an oldworld powermac bootloader, to be able to cleanly build d-i boot floppies. However, the archive distributed by upstream is missing a license. I'm about to send a mail to the author about this, so: * do I cc: debian-legal? * would an email (possib

Re: MPlayer reloaded

2004-03-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Diego Biurrun wrote: > Don Armstrong writes: > > The only concern I'm really aware of is that the Copyright file > > doesn't address GPL §2a. > > Can you give me some good examples of file headers indicating > changes? IMHO the GPL is not overly clear on this: > > a) You

Re: MPlayer reloaded

2004-03-17 Thread Diego Biurrun
Nathanael Nerode writes: > Diego Biurrun wrote: > > Branden Robinson writes: > > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 05:03:09AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote: > > > > I am Diego Biurrun, the MPlayer documentation maintainer, not to be > > > > confused with Gabucino, who has made a few appearances on thi

Re: MPlayer reloaded

2004-03-17 Thread Andreas Metzler
Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Diego Biurrun wrote: [...] >> No, seriously, the tarball supports being compiled into a .deb package >> and supports many features (css, etc) that will most probably not make >> it into Debian, even if MPlayer should. > > * Is it possible to arrange f

Re: MPlayer reloaded

2004-03-17 Thread Diego Biurrun
Don Armstrong writes: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Diego Biurrun wrote: > > We now have a LICENSE file and I hope to have addressed GPL 2a with > > the Copyright file. > > The only concern I'm really aware of is that the Copyright file > doesn't address GPL §2a. I think it will suffice for Debian's