Re: CCPL-by

2004-04-01 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 02 Apr 2004, Fedor Zuev wrote: > The problem is that many US copyrighed works do not have [legally > recognized] authors at all. They all have authors, and they all are legally recognized. If you're not a legal entity, you can't be an author or a copyright holder by definition. > Author !

Re: CCPL-by

2004-04-01 Thread Fedor Zuev
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: >> Now, the French contributor can sneak something past debian-legal by >> writing a license text that appears to grant permissions that the >> contributor has no power to grant. Is that what you want? >Are you sure the location of the contributor

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amib oot & ..

2004-04-01 Thread Humberto Massa
@ 01/04/2004 11:57 : wrote Rick_Thomas : In that case, the NetBSD folks may already have the information (and appropriate releases) that we need to re-implement the boot sector for miboot. It's worth pursuing! AFAIK (and I googled around) NetBSD boots from a MacOS program called Booter. I.e.

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

2004-04-01 Thread Rick_Thomas
On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 02:57, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:27:09AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > IMO we should do a clean-room implementation anyway. 1) Past > > experiences with Apple have not been very fruitful, just ask the Linux > > Mac68K hackers. > > Well, actuall

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Re: POSSIVEL SPAM-- Re: Binary-only firmware covered by the GPL?

2004-04-01 Thread Nick Phillips
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 06:48:19PM -0500, Guy wrote: > The binary data stored in the .c source file is not the preferred source! I don't know about you, but given the choice of: 1) A binary, hex, or other machine code source that I have right in front of me; 2) A hypothetical source in a high-lev

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

2004-04-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:24:38AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 02:06:11PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Huh ? If it would be licenced under the MIT/X11 licence, there is no > > need for the source code for us to distribute it ? > > I was figuring we'd just disassemble

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

2004-04-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:27:09AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > IMO we should do a clean-room implementation anyway. 1) Past > experiences with Apple have not been very fruitful, just ask the Linux > Mac68K hackers. Well, actually, they have been. It is true that Apple has long refused to giv

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

2004-04-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:14:50AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 02:00:46PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Well, the US are mostly the most restrictive (unreasonable) juridiction > > on this kind of issues, so ... > > That's not my experience. The U.S. is very aggressive