Re: public domain, take ?$B!g

2006-09-28 Thread Ben Finney
"Andrew Donnellan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 9/28/06, Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What about modification and distribution? > > To be more explicit you could say 'usage, modification, or distribution.' Since, as investigation into copyright laws outside the US has found, even

Re: CC's responses to v3draft comments

2006-09-28 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:50:32 +0100 (BST) MJ Ray wrote: > KWWU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > >Should we accept as free software a program under a > > >licence which does > > >not allow licensees to distribute compiled files? > > > > > >The correct way to fix this is for CC to require > > >

Re: public domain, take ?$B!g

2006-09-28 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 9/28/06, Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What about modification and distribution? To be more explicit you could say 'usage, modification, or distribution.' -- Andrew Donnellan http://andrewdonnellan.com http://ajdlinux.blogspot.com Jabber - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG - hkp://subkeys.pgp.ne

Re: Bug#389464: gnome-themes-extras: non-free Firefox icon included

2006-09-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 28 septembre 2006 à 15:37 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > Le jeudi 28 septembre 2006 à 15:02 +0200, Mike Hommey a écrit : > > > I think I agree with that. It's not subject to the firefox copyright, > > > as far as I know, and it's an honest use of the trademark. If the > > > icon is

Re: public domain, take ?$B!g

2006-09-28 Thread Ben Pfaff
"Andrew Donnellan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The standard replacement for this problem is something along the lines > of: "The author(s) of this script expressly place it in the public > domain. In jurisdictions where this is not legally possible, the > author(s) place no restrictions on this

Re: Bug#389464: gnome-themes-extras: non-free Firefox icon included

2006-09-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 28 septembre 2006 à 15:02 +0200, Mike Hommey a écrit : > > I think I agree with that. It's not subject to the firefox copyright, > > as far as I know, and it's an honest use of the trademark. If the > > icon is modified to refer to something else, then any bug may be > > caused by the tr

Re: Bug#389464: gnome-themes-extras: non-free Firefox icon included

2006-09-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 12:56:16PM +0100, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only issue here is a trademark one, but as the icon is used to > > reference firefox itself, I'd have guessed it is allowed. I'm CCing > > debian-legal, as this has been

Re: Bug#389464: gnome-themes-extras: non-free Firefox icon included

2006-09-28 Thread MJ Ray
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only issue here is a trademark one, but as the icon is used to > reference firefox itself, I'd have guessed it is allowed. I'm CCing > debian-legal, as this has been discussed to death and I guess someone > will have more clues than myself. I think

Re: CC's responses to v3draft comments

2006-09-28 Thread MJ Ray
KWWU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Indeed. Sadly, CC's anti-TPM language may(*) > >prohibit iSuck owners > >applying TPM themselves, as the copy would violate > >the licence and the > >anti-TPM measure is not limited to distribution. [...] > > Isn't this a case of fair use? Why would that be

Re: [Fwd: Re: Problem with license of msv-xsdlib]

2006-09-28 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Sep 7, 2006, at 14:59, Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: Background of question 3 is that someone on the list might have an idea which other license could be acceptable to Sun (and I might suggest it to the developer). msv itself is under the new three-point BSD license plus a nuclear faci

Re: CC's responses to v3draft comments

2006-09-28 Thread KWWU
>Indeed. Sadly, CC's anti-TPM language may(*) >prohibit iSuck owners >applying TPM themselves, as the copy would violate >the licence and the >anti-TPM measure is not limited to distribution. (* - > it's not entirely >clear to me, due to the recent comments and refusal >to explain.) Isn't this

Re: libbtctl: two questions regarding use of LGPL and GPL in source files

2006-09-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 28 septembre 2006 à 05:01 +0200, Øystein Gisnås a écrit : > I've gone through license considerations of RFP-marked package > libbtctl lately, and have questions about two concerns: > > * 7 source files are have LGPL license in their headers, but link > against bluez-libs, which is license