Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 11:20:57AM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
>>
>> FOO is and always was a derivative work of MS Windows. It was
>> provably such until Wine added that function; after that, it's much
>> harder to prove.
>
> Ah... I though
Joachim Breitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was just about to package "psybnc"[1], a popular irc bouncer.
> A closer look into the src/ dir revealed that the author seems to have
> followed the Free Software spirit by not re-inventing a lot of wheels,
> but didn't pay close attention to lega
Hi Psychoid,
I am looking into packaging psybnc for debian (of course with proper
credit). Unfortunately, there are some problems: You include two files
(snprintf.c, bsd-setenv.c) with GPL-incompatible licenses. I asked for
advice[1] on debian legal, here is a summary for you.
bsd-setenv.c:
Is un
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 11:20:57AM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
>
> FOO is and always was a derivative work of MS Windows. It was
> provably such until Wine added that function; after that, it's much
> harder to prove.
Ah... I though it was being argued that wine's existence somehow made
so
Joachim Breitner wrote:
> I was just about to package "psybnc"[1], a popular irc bouncer.
>
> A closer look into the src/ dir revealed that the author seems to have
> followed the Free Software spirit by not re-inventing a lot of wheels,
> but didn't pay close attention to legal stuff...
Never a
Francesco Poli wrote:
> Moreover, the GPL requires that *source code* be accompanied or offered.
> This POSIX license requires that *nroff source* be included.
>
> What if I created a derivative work by
> step 0) converting it from nroff to some other typesetting language
> (e.g. DocBook
Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was just about to package "psybnc"[1], a popular irc bouncer.
>
> A closer look into the src/ dir revealed that the author seems to have
> followed the Free Software spirit by not re-inventing a lot of wheels,
> but didn't pay close attention to legal stuff.
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:04:48PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> I was just about to package "psybnc"[1], a popular irc bouncer.
> A closer look into the src/ dir revealed that the author seems to have
> followed the Free Software spirit by not re-inventing a lot of wheels,
> but didn't pay cl
Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Jun 8, 2004, at 14:56, Andrew Suffield wrote:
>
>> Bad example. There are two implementations of most of the significant
>> win32 libraries - windows and wine. Anything which works on both is a
>> derivative of neither.
>
> That leads to even wei
Hi,
I was just about to package "psybnc"[1], a popular irc bouncer.
A closer look into the src/ dir revealed that the author seems to have
followed the Free Software spirit by not re-inventing a lot of wheels,
but didn't pay close attention to legal stuff...
His own works are GPLed, and have co
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> If glibc binaries really had virus that were not it its source, and
> if that could have been avoided by more painful bootstrapping, would
> that mean clean oaklisp bootstrapping should not be required?
Right. And if my grandmother had wheels and a gas tank she would be
an automobile.
All new
On Jun 8, 2004, at 14:56, Andrew Suffield wrote:
Bad example. There are two implementations of most of the significant
win32 libraries - windows and wine. Anything which works on both is a
derivative of neither.
That leads to even weirder things.
FOO was a derivative work of M$ Windows until
Walter Landry wrote:
Marco Franzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Barak Pearlmutter wrote:
This is a technical issue related to ease of bootstrapping on a new
architecture, and not a legal issue.
It may not be a legal issue, but I think it is more than merely
technical. It does touch the fre
On 2004-06-11 22:48:23 +0100 Lex Spoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am wondering this as well. It might actually be legally
*preferable*
to have a license where choice of venue is specified, because
otherwise
one needs to be prepared to face suits in all kinds of places.
Are any others than
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