Re: License violation in "new" Plex86

2004-04-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:02:51PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: >> The main author of Plex86 forked his own project (heh) to create the >> "new" Plex86 effort, and relicensed it under the MIT/X license. He >> asserted that, as the copyright holder, he has permission to do so.

Re: License violation in "new" Plex86

2004-04-08 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:02:51PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > The main author of Plex86 forked his own project (heh) to create the "new" > Plex86 effort, and relicensed it under the MIT/X license. He asserted that, > as the copyright holder, he has permission to do so. > > But Plex86 included m

Re: Online demonstration support against Software Patents?

2004-04-08 Thread Henrion Benjamin
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040409]: > On 2004-04-08 21:34:22 +0100 Henrion Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Last september many websites participated in a web strike against > >software patents. [...] > > Last September some web sites were offline (sorry, "on strike") for > weeks, makin

Re: Online demonstration support against Software Patents?

2004-04-08 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:34:09AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > >Last september many websites participated in a web strike against > >software patents. [...] > > Last September some web sites were offline (sorry, "on strike") for > weeks, making free software supporters waste time looking for > altern

Re: License violation in "new" Plex86

2004-04-08 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 08 Apr 2004, Robert Millan wrote: > The main author of Plex86 forked his own project (heh) to create the > "new" Plex86 effort, and relicensed it under the MIT/X license. He > asserted that, as the copyright holder, he has permission to do so. What he has been able to do is relicense the c

License violation in "new" Plex86

2004-04-08 Thread Robert Millan
Hi! I believe the "new" Plex86 project, a fork of the original Plex86 which is currently hosted in Savannah, is in violation of the LGPL license. The main author of Plex86 forked his own project (heh) to create the "new" Plex86 effort, and relicensed it under the MIT/X license. He asserted that,

Re: Modifying an ISO

2004-04-08 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What are the legal ramifications of creating an ISO by adding > packages (some OSS, some proprietary) to a sarge-i386-netinst.iso? By point 9 of the DFSG, licenses for software in Debian must not place restrictions on other software that is distribute

Re: Online demonstration support against Software Patents?

2004-04-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-04-08 21:34:22 +0100 Henrion Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Last september many websites participated in a web strike against software patents. [...] Last September some web sites were offline (sorry, "on strike") for weeks, making free software supporters waste time looking for

Modifying an ISO

2004-04-08 Thread russh347
What are the legal ramifications of creating an ISO by adding packages (some OSS, some proprietary) to a sarge-i386-netinst.iso?

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Online demonstration support against Software Patents?

2004-04-08 Thread Henrion Benjamin
Dear project leaders, Last september many websites participated in a web strike against software patents. It helped to persuade the European Parliament to reconfirm the non-patentability of software and to clearly formulate a right of publication and interoperation with regard to software. The EU

Хитрости ежедневного руководства

2004-04-08 Thread alessand
Уважаемые господа! 15.04.04 состоится однодневный мастер-класс по теме : «Хитрости ежедневного руководства». Цель мастер класса: оценить стиль руководства каждого участника, научить изменять стиль руководства в зависимости от характера подчиненного и решаемой задачи. Участники мероприятия научат

Re: GPL and scripting languages (here: python2.3-psycopg)

2004-04-08 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Federico Di Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Il mer, 2004-04-07 alle 18:25, W. Borgert ha scritto: > > Maybe you could change the license to GPL+"special > > exception", where "special exception" is some statement, > > that it is always allowed to use the psycopg API for > > whatever softwar

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

2004-04-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 08:37:48AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 01:06:05AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > I just had an interesting conversation with an Apple developer > > (Apple employee) regarding the legal status of the boot sector for > > oldworld Macs. > > > > He

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

2004-04-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 08:15:41PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Mar 30, 2004, at 01:20, Sven Luther wrote: > > > >I have a fear suspision that this may be more related to newworld, than > >the oldworld stuff needed for miboot, which may probably be varying > >between the different models w

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

2004-04-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 01:06:05AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > I just had an interesting conversation with an Apple developer > (Apple employee) regarding the legal status of the boot sector for > oldworld Macs. > > He pointed out that Darwin runs (and boots) on (at least) the beige > G3, an

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

2004-04-08 Thread Rick Thomas
I just had an interesting conversation with an Apple developer (Apple employee) regarding the legal status of the boot sector for oldworld Macs. He pointed out that Darwin runs (and boots) on (at least) the beige G3, and that's oldworld. I don't know anything about Darwin except that it's