Re: MPEG-4 patent license issues - libfaad* and libx264* andother codecs.

2006-05-04 Thread Matthew William Solloway Bell
> OTOH, it looks like these packages currently in Debian do have upstreams, > against whom the patents have not been enforced, correct? Do we know of > *anyone* who's been C&D'ed specifically for distributing a *subset* of the > code in these packages? If not, it sounds like the lack of enforcem

Re: Bug#346354: Is distribution of the maxdb-doc package a GPL violation?

2006-05-04 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 04 May 2006 21:47:47 +0200 Sven Mueller wrote: > Hi. > > I've read the whole bug log and though I'm not a regular on > debian-legal, I still would like to add a note to it: > > I don't know what the current upstream does, That's what should be found out! ;-) > but I wonder about one >

Re: Free Art License

2006-05-04 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 04 May 2006 09:08:24 +0200 Frank Küster wrote: > Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It *does* mean you would be forever required to keep updated > > information on where recipients can access the original artwork. > > > > (For the Mona Lisa, the answer would be The Louvre.

Re: Free Art License

2006-05-04 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 4 May 2006 02:09:51 -0400 Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Francesco Poli wrote: > > On Mon, 1 May 2006 15:18:32 -0400 Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > > On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:54:53 +1000 Andrew Donnellan wrote: > > > > There is a license called the Free Art license, I don't know if > > > > that is D

Re: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-05-04 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, sorry for not responding earlier. * Mike Olson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060410 03:51]: > This is going to be some work for me. Oracle's legal department has been > very helpful on our open source requests so far, but it's a large team and > is not familiar with this issue yet. I'll need to find

Bug#346354: Is distribution of the maxdb-doc package a GPL violation?

2006-05-04 Thread Sven Mueller
Hi. I've read the whole bug log and though I'm not a regular on debian-legal, I still would like to add a note to it: I don't know what the current upstream does, but I wonder about one thing: The header about the SAP Html Export indicates that the export happened on 19.10.2004, about 1.5 years a

Re: Bacula documentation

2006-05-04 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, John Goerzen said: > > Is this free? (I'm thinking not...) No. Banning (or only allowing with different conditions) commercial use is a fairly straight forward marker of failing the DFSG. -- - | ,''

Bacula documentation

2006-05-04 Thread John Goerzen
Is this free? (I'm thinking not...) This manual may be included without modification in a packaged release for use with Bacula, or it may be copied for your own or company use, and it may be cited in small parts for presentation purposes. It may not be published for sale in any form, o

Re: Re: Re: MPEG-4 patent license issues - libfaad* and libx264* andother codecs.

2006-05-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 05:11:38PM +0100, Matthew William Solloway Bell wrote: > I mean with respect to looking in packages to find out if they have a > coder or a decoder. > So, we have a document that supports a reasonable belief that the > patents that cover parts of the MPEG-4 standard are in

Re: Free Art License

2006-05-04 Thread Frank Küster
Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It *does* mean you would be forever required to keep updated information on > where recipients can access the original artwork. > > (For the Mona Lisa, the answer would be The Louvre.) > > The freeness of this is arguable. I think it's supposed to be