Re: Draft summary of Creative Commons 2.0 licenses (version 3)

2005-03-24 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:28:24PM -0500, Evan Prodromou wrote: > Hi, everyone. At long last, I've made some final revisions to the draft > summary of the Creative Commons 2.0 licenses. The main changes have > been: Thanks for doing this. I read it carefully and it's a very nice document. I thin

Re: Linux and GPLv2

2005-03-24 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 03:38:19PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 03:10:41AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 07:45:24AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > Fair use is an American perversion. It does not exist in most of the > > > rest of the world i

Re: New licence for auto-tools m4 files

2005-03-24 Thread Matthew Garrett
Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 8<8<8<8<8<8<8<8= >< > This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation gives > unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, with or without > modifications, as long as this

Re: Linux and GPLv2

2005-03-24 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Humberto Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Henning Makholm wrote: >>Snip "explanation" that does not do anything the idea that bits are >>treated differently by copyright just becuase they are in a file >>called .h. > Repeating: bits that are in files called .h are not copied in your > work,

Re: Linux and GPLv2

2005-03-24 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Jeremy Hankins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Scripsit Humberto Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Trying to explain more: my "myfile.c" is not a derivative work on >>> "errno.h", >> No, but myfile.o may be. (I feel like I'm repeating myself here). > My

New licence for auto-tools m4 files

2005-03-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
8<8<8<8<8<8<8<8< This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved. >8>8>8>8

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Re: Linux and GPLv2

2005-03-24 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 03:10:41AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 07:45:24AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > Fair use is an American perversion. It does not exist in most of the > > rest of the world in anything like the same form. Anything that relies > > on the American n

Re: Combining GPL and BSD/CeCILL/whatever

2005-03-24 Thread MJ Ray
Jarno Elonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This doesn't specify which parts were originally under which license but 1) > it > would be impossible anyway given that they're all mingled and 2) does it > really matter as GPL insists licensing the whole bunch under GPL? Yes, it does matter, as you a

Re: Combining GPL and BSD/CeCILL/whatever

2005-03-24 Thread Jarno Elonen
> > Do you mean you don't know which bits have whose copyright? Yow! > > That's not particularly hard or unusual; just merge two people's code > together and let it go through a year or two of refactoring. Yes, this's the kind of scenario I was thinking of. What do you think of the following form

Re: Linux and GPLv2

2005-03-24 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:55:40AM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote: > Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 08:10:57PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: > >> Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> >> Concluding: when you write a ".c" file, it is or not a de

Re: Linux and GPLv2

2005-03-24 Thread Måns Rullgård
Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 08:10:57PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: >> Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> Concluding: when you write a ".c" file, it is or not a derivative work >> >> on another original work independently of what the comp

Re: Linux and GPLv2

2005-03-24 Thread Måns Rullgård
Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:45:45PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: >> > If my implementation puts things in macros, and you distribute my >> > implementation as part of your binaries as a result, that's *your* >> > problem. I don't even know what you're t

Re: Linux and GPLv2

2005-03-24 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 07:45:24AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > Fair use is an American perversion. It does not exist in most of the > rest of the world in anything like the same form. Anything that relies > on the American notion of "fair use" is non-free, because in the UK > that means "Non-co