Re: [Re]distribution of disk images

2006-12-03 Thread Lewis Jardine
Ottavio Caruso wrote: Then, I believe that sites that offer user-contributed images are substantially violating the GPL, although 'bona fide'. What's your opinion? It would seem that the FSF takes action against such distribution, even though no harm was intended by the distributors. MEPIS,

Re: NetBeans ITP [was Re: CDDL]

2006-12-03 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 21:01:08 + (UTC) Mark Wielaard wrote: > The FAQ even says: > > Q: How does this announcement affect Java EE? > A: Sun's implementation of Java EE 5 has been available as open-source > under the CDDL license through the GlassFish Community since June of > 2005. In order to g

Re: Sun has an ombudsman

2006-12-03 Thread Mark Wielaard
Lewis Jardine catbox.co.uk> writes: > > Mark Wielaard wrote: > > I would like to > > encourage people to email him whenever they spot things like the > > "nuclear clause" in packages from Sun which prevent them going into > > main. > > I thought the nuclear clause was merely an observation, an

Re: NetBeans ITP [was Re: CDDL]

2006-12-03 Thread MJ Ray
Tom Marble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Indeed allow me to appeal to everyone to reconsider CDDL *as is* > given the clarification that Simon has provided in this regard [1]. In essence, this is the same claim we have heard before: "If, however, you are an individual, or a company that trades i

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2006-12-03 Thread Bert
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Re: [Re]distribution of disk images

2006-12-03 Thread Ottavio Caruso
Lewis Jardine wrote: > I think you've missed a post in this thread, in which Francesco Poli > observes that Debian is not offering to distribute source code (2b), but > instead 'offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the > same place', which 'counts as distribution of the sourc

Re: [Re]distribution of disk images

2006-12-03 Thread Lewis Jardine
Ottavio Caruso wrote: Thank you. Two more questions: 1) Does it make any difference if it is a [hard]disk image or an installation cd? Not from the GPL's point of view: you're still distributing a GPL work, whether or not it's been installed. But there might be some differences in the exact

Re: Sun has an ombudsman

2006-12-03 Thread Lewis Jardine
Mark Wielaard wrote: I would like to encourage people to email him whenever they spot things like the "nuclear clause" in packages from Sun which prevent them going into main. I thought the nuclear clause was merely an observation, and thus not a restriction? I.E. Java is not licensed for use

Re: NetBeans ITP [was Re: CDDL]

2006-12-03 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, On Sat, Dec 02, 2006, Tom Marble wrote: > Once the the full JVM is available under GPL then running applications > on top of it *are* compatible with any license as this was the specific > rationale for adding the Classpath exception [1]. I think it can even go in "contrib" if it end