Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-10-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:55:45AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:59:18 +0100 Sven Luther wrote: > > [...] > > Nope, because you can ship the source code and the object file if you > > wanted. > > > > Already now, major parts of debian/main are not cleanly buildable out > >

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-10-31 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:50:19 +0100 Ola Lundqvist wrote: > Hi Mathew > > (Anyone on debian-legal: please note and maintain the Cc:s) Again assuming that this means you and Matthew want to be Cc:ed as well... [...] > > That's perfectly acceptable. Upstream can do whatever they want. > > However,

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-10-31 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:59:18 +0100 Sven Luther wrote: [...] > Nope, because you can ship the source code and the object file if you > wanted. > > Already now, major parts of debian/main are not cleanly buildable out > of the box, due to cyclic bootstraping dependencies. But those major parts of

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-10-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:06:50PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > Hi Sven > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 07:32:02PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > ...CUT... > > > Will all reverse engineered drivers with hardcoded values be considered > > > as closed source? Must you always release everything that you kn

Re: non-free license review + question for ftp-master

2006-10-31 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:29:45 +1100 Ben Finney wrote: > Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:16:11 +1100 Ben Finney wrote: [...] > > One thing that was not yet pointed out is that this license, besides > > the other issues, also has a choice of venue clause. Thi

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-10-31 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:26:38 + Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:00:15PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > (Anyone on debian-legal: please note and maintain the Cc:s) Including the From: field (that is you) and the To: field (that is Ola Lundqvist)? Let's assume the answer i

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-10-31 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi Sven On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 07:32:02PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: ...CUT... > > Will all reverse engineered drivers with hardcoded values be considered > > as closed source? Must you always release everything that you know > > when you release somehting as open source? > > Must we release the i

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-10-31 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi Mathew (Anyone on debian-legal: please note and maintain the Cc:s) On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:26:38PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:00:15PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > (Anyone on debian-legal: please note and maintain the Cc:s) > > > As you say you need the p

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-10-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 04:52:13PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > The only thing is #2 above. The question is if someone must release > all it knows when it release open source software (according to DFSG) > or if you can release only enough to make something work. I can also > put it as if you want

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-10-31 Thread Lewis Jardine
Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes No, the preferred form *for* modification. The only requirement on the original author (as I can determine) is that you get source code for it, not that it is in preferred form for making mod

Re: Bug#395961: gabber: Links with GPL-incompatible licensed OpenSSL

2006-10-31 Thread Goedson Teixeira Paixao
Em Ter, 2006-10-31 às 11:27 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:19:02PM +, MJ Ray wrote: > > Goedson Teixeira Paixao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Version 1.2 of gnomemm (which is the one involved in this bug) is > > > licensed under the GPL. > > > Wouldn't it be

Re: Bug#395961: gabber: Links with GPL-incompatible licensed OpenSSL

2006-10-31 Thread Goedson Teixeira Paixao
Em Ter, 2006-10-31 às 15:28 +, MJ Ray escreveu: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Wouldn't it be possible to link to libgnutls instead of libssl? It seems > > that GNU TLS provides an API compatible with OpenSSL. > > The compatible API is part of GNUTLS-EXTRA, which is also GPL. See > http://jos

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-10-31 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes No, the preferred form *for* modification. The only requirement on the original author (as I can determine) is that you get source code for it, not that it is in preferred form for making modification. That's perfectl

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-10-31 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi Goswin Thanks for your response, and interesting new view (option C) on this matter. On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:20:44PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ...CUT... > > Let me take two examples: > > * Person A create a driver by reverse engineering,

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-10-31 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:00:15PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: (Anyone on debian-legal: please note and maintain the Cc:s) > As you say you need the prefered form of _modification_, which means > that if we change things, we are not allowed to obfuscate it. I can not > see anything that enfoce th

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-10-31 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, you are probably right if the person use an automated tool to make > this obfuscation. (Not sure though, see below). > > However as it is impossible to know if someone use a obfuscation program > or if the person use a text editor to edit this, I can

Re: Bug#395961: gabber: Links with GPL-incompatible licensed OpenSSL

2006-10-31 Thread MJ Ray
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Wouldn't it be possible to link to libgnutls instead of libssl? It seems > that GNU TLS provides an API compatible with OpenSSL. The compatible API is part of GNUTLS-EXTRA, which is also GPL. See http://josefsson.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gnutls/includes/gnutls/openssl.h?

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Bug#395961: gabber: Links with GPL-incompatible licensed OpenSSL]

2006-10-31 Thread cascardo
Sorry, the following message should have been sent to all of you. Please, include MJ Ray in the reply. - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#395961: gabber: Links with GPL-incompatible licensed OpenSSL On Tue,

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-10-31 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > First I want to tell to you Kyle and Matthew, that this is not a personal > thing against you, and that I have noted the question mark in the end of the > subject ("Contains obfuscated source code, DFSG violation?"). I actually want > to thank you

Re: Bug#395961: gabber: Links with GPL-incompatible licensed OpenSSL

2006-10-31 Thread cascardo
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:19:02PM +, MJ Ray wrote: > Goedson Teixeira Paixao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Version 1.2 of gnomemm (which is the one involved in this bug) is > > licensed under the GPL. > > ACK. I jumped version somewhere. Probably its upstream is not averse > to relicensin

Re: Bug#395961: gabber: Links with GPL-incompatible licensed OpenSSL

2006-10-31 Thread MJ Ray
Goedson Teixeira Paixao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Version 1.2 of gnomemm (which is the one involved in this bug) is > licensed under the GPL. ACK. I jumped version somewhere. Probably its upstream is not averse to relicensing or giving extra permissions, as 1.3 onwards is LGPL, but this is

Re: Bug#395961: gabber: Links with GPL-incompatible licensed OpenSSL

2006-10-31 Thread Goedson Teixeira Paixao
Em Ter, 2006-10-31 às 11:08 +, MJ Ray escreveu: > http://gtkmm.sourceforge.net/ says: 'gtkmm is free software distributed > under the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL).' The COPYING in > the stable libgnomemm*tar.bz2 seems to confirm that. > > Why is debian distributing libgnomemm und

Re: Bug#395961: gabber: Links with GPL-incompatible licensed OpenSSL

2006-10-31 Thread MJ Ray
[gnomemm maintainer added to cc] Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this exception should be copied into the debian/copyright, [...] I agree. As well as breaking policy, it means the same report may appear again. > Moreover: it seems that one of the libraries the package depend