Re: Re: Free art license, CC and DFSG

2007-03-08 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Great, there are 996 songs under CC-by (2.0+2.5) if I just look at dogmazic.net. Thank you, that's a clear answer. Now I can go ahead! :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [RFC]: firmware-ipw2200, acceptable for non-free?

2007-03-08 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 3/9/07, Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For a lot of wifi cards (dunno about Intel's) it's regulatory - they > can't sell cards that can be easily modified to exceed FCC limits, so > they limit it in a binary firmware. If they gave away the source, > people could easily modify the

Re: [RFC]: firmware-ipw2200, acceptable for non-free?

2007-03-08 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:34:32 -0500 Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > "We would really love to be more permissive, but we cannot, 'cause > > that other evil guy forbids us." > > > > As I keep reading answers like this, I'm less and less convinced of > > their good faith..

Re: [RFC]: firmware-ipw2200, acceptable for non-free?

2007-03-08 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Mar 8, 2007 at 15:34:32 -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > For some companies I would agree, but as has been said, intel has been > opensourcing a lot lately, and as that FAQ says, later versions are > free, which shows they must have some concern. > s/free/distributable/ None of the ip

Re: [RFC]: firmware-ipw2200, acceptable for non-free?

2007-03-08 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Francesco Poli wrote: > On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:46:05 +1000 Kel Modderman wrote: > > >> On Thursday 08 March 2007 04:23, Francesco Poli wrote: >> > [...] > >>> However, the license does not meet the DFSG (it's not even close to >>> meeting them...): has Intel been contacted and asked to pr

Re: [RFC]: firmware-ipw2200, acceptable for non-free?

2007-03-08 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:46:05 +1000 Kel Modderman wrote: > On Thursday 08 March 2007 04:23, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > However, the license does not meet the DFSG (it's not even close to > > meeting them...): has Intel been contacted and asked to provide the > > firmware (with source code) in a

Re: Free art license, CC and DFSG

2007-03-08 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Mathieu Stumpf escribe: > Well, all that is great, but what should I understand with all that, is > there no license under which I can find songs that debian would accept > in the main repository? > AFAIK CC-by would allow it. > Please make a short and clear answer. :) Hopefully mine is. :) No

Re: Free art license, CC and DFSG

2007-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > My opinion is based on the contribution of debian-legal participants, of > the workgroup participants, and of my own review of the licenses. I don't doubt that. However, that's still your opinion rather than the Workgroup's. I don't mean anything bad by that.

Re: Free art license, CC and DFSG

2007-03-08 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Well, all that is great, but what should I understand with all that, is there no license under which I can find songs that debian would accept in the main repository? Please make a short and clear answer. :)