Re: Debian and Cuba

2005-03-25 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Maykel, On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 12:44:11AM -0400, Maykel Moya wrote: > Today I attended at 'I Taller de Software Libre' in the most important > university here in Cuba. Some guys there are creating a Distro optimized > for our country, and they are taking Gentoo as base. > In their talk they s

Re: x.org non free?

2005-03-25 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:03:46PM +0100, Mickaël Leduque wrote: > (I'm not related with debian, except being a debian user) > > I know x.org is not in debian (yet?), but before bothering someone > there, I prefer talking about it here. > > I'm a bit worried by this file I found in x.org source

Debian and Cuba

2005-03-25 Thread Maykel Moya
Today I attended at 'I Taller de Software Libre' in the most important university here in Cuba. Some guys there are creating a Distro optimized for our country, and they are taking Gentoo as base. In their talk they said they didn't choose Debian because of legal restrictions due to the USA embarg

Re: Linux and GPLv2

2005-03-25 Thread Jeremy Hankins
Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Scripsit Jeremy Hankins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> My understanding is that, in practice, myfile.c could infringe as well, >> If the only reasonable way to use it is by creating a work that is >> derivative of errno.h > > Some people say that. I do not agr

Re: lirc license

2005-03-25 Thread Benjamin A'Lee
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 01:38:25PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: [...] > However, when starting irrecord, it says: > IMPORTANT: The license of the config files created by this program requires > that you send them to the author. If you don't like this license exit this > program now by pressing Ctrl-C!

Re: lirc license

2005-03-25 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 01:38:25PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: > However, when starting irrecord, it says: > IMPORTANT: The license of the config files created by this program requires > that you send them to the author. If you don't like this license exit this > program now by pressing Ctrl-C! Otherw

Re: x.org non free?

2005-03-25 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Friday 25 March 2005 07:33 am, Michael Below wrote: > Måns Rullgård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Michael Below <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm not a developer either, but from the legal point of view you're > >> right, I'd say. Their README.crypto says: > >> > >> Without limiting

Re: x.org non free?

2005-03-25 Thread Michael Below
Måns Rullgård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Below <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm not a developer either, but from the legal point of view you're >> right, I'd say. Their README.crypto says: >> >> Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, hardware, >> software,

Re: x.org non free?

2005-03-25 Thread Michael Poole
Lewis Jardine writes: > Måns Rullgård wrote: > > > Michael Below <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>I'm not a developer either, but from the legal point of view you're > >>right, I'd say. Their README.crypto says: > >> > >>Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, hardware, > >>

Re: x.org non free?

2005-03-25 Thread Lewis Jardine
MÃns RullgÃrd wrote: Michael Below <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm not a developer either, but from the legal point of view you're right, I'd say. Their README.crypto says: Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, hardware, software, technology or services provided under thi

Re: x.org non free?

2005-03-25 Thread Måns Rullgård
Michael Below <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mickaël Leduque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> (I'm not related with debian, except being a debian user) > >> I'm a bit worried by this file I found in x.org source : xc/README.crypto >> >> I'm sure this question has been answered hundreds of times and

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

2005-03-25 Thread Evan Prodromou
On Sat, 2005-19-03 at 23:18 +, Henning Makholm wrote: > You may not distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or > publicly digitally perform the Work with any technological > measures *that prevent the recipient from exercising the rights > granted t

Re: New licence for auto-tools m4 files

2005-03-25 Thread Måns Rullgård
Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 05:10:36PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: >> 8<8<8<8<8<8<8<-- >> This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation gives >> unlimited permission to copy and/or di

Re: lirc license

2005-03-25 Thread Lewis Jardine
Bas Wijnen wrote: However, when starting irrecord, it says: IMPORTANT: The license of the config files created by this program requires that you send them to the author. If you don't like this license exit this program now by pressing Ctrl-C! Otherwise press RETURN. End quote. I do not expect this

lirc license

2005-03-25 Thread Bas Wijnen
Hello, Quoted from /usr/share/doc/lirc/copyright: Summary of copyright messages found in sources: Copyright (C) 1998 Pablo d'Angelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Copyright (C) 1998,1999 Christoph Bartelmus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Copyright (C) 1996,97 Ralph Metzler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Copyright (C) 1998 Trent Pi

Re: x.org non free?

2005-03-25 Thread Michael Below
Mickaël Leduque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (I'm not related with debian, except being a debian user) > I'm a bit worried by this file I found in x.org source : xc/README.crypto > > I'm sure this question has been answered hundreds of times and there's > nothing worrying here, but the contents

x.org non free?

2005-03-25 Thread Mickaël Leduque
(I'm not related with debian, except being a debian user) I know x.org is not in debian (yet?), but before bothering someone there, I prefer talking about it here. I'm a bit worried by this file I found in x.org source : xc/README.crypto I'm sure this question has been answered hundreds of times

Re: Linux and GPLv2#

2005-03-25 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 09:55:40AM +, 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

Re: antennavis -- antenna visualization software (please advise on togl license)

2005-03-25 Thread Joop Stakenborg
Op vr, 25-03-2005 te 20:27 +1100, schreef Matthew Palmer: > Looks, smells and tastes very much like the MIT licence, with the added > spice of making it explicit that you can go wild with the licence on your > own modifications and the "no licence required" stuff. > > All seems DFSG free to me.

Re: New licence for auto-tools m4 files

2005-03-25 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 05:10:36PM +, Scott James Remnant 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 > modificatio

Re: Linux and GPLv2#

2005-03-25 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 01:26:18PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > 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

Re: antennavis -- antenna visualization software (please advise on togl license)

2005-03-25 Thread Matthew Palmer
[Cc'd as requested; consider using the Mail-Followup-To: header to make it semi-automatic] On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:16:53AM +0100, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > The antennavis source includes a copy of togl.c and togl.h, which are > both part of the Togl library, an OpenGL TK widget hosted on > sourc

ITP: antennavis -- antenna visualization software (please advise on togl license)

2005-03-25 Thread Joop Stakenborg
Package: wnpp Owner: Joop Stakenborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: antennavis Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Ken Harker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://n5xu.ae.utexas.edu/antennavis * License : GPL Description : antenna visuali