"Wesley J. Landaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tuesday 22 May 2007 08:09:33 Ben Finney wrote:
> > The consensus (not unanimous, but consensus nonetheless) of
> > debian-legal is that the DFSG, regardless of which of its clauses are
> > exercised, is non-free for any software, including docu
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 08:09:33 Ben Finney wrote:
> The consensus (not unanimous, but consensus nonetheless) of
> debian-legal is that the DFSG, regardless of which of its clauses are
> exercised, is non-free for any software, including documentation.
(I assume you meant "GFDL" here instead of "DF
Terry, please follow
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particular, don't send a copy of messages to my email address; I have
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Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ben Finney wrote:
> >> [CC Sampling Plus 1.0 license clause re. derivative works]
"Miriam Ruiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Would you think the license CC Sampling Plus 1.0 from Creative
> Commons would be DFSG-Free?
>
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/legalcode
When discussing a license text it's useful
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ben Finney wrote:
> > [the (C) sequence is] possibly not a valid copyright
> > indicator. The © symbol is unambiguous under the law, and thus
> > preferred.
>
> "unambiguous under the law", but technical ambiguous. What character
> encoding shou
MJ Ray wrote:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-users/2007-05/msg00072.html
My limited understanding is that ScummVM games are software whose
preferred form of modification is the game files as distributed. Since I
have never actually modified a ScummVM game, I am unsure as to the tool
On Tue, May 22, 2007, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
> >It's possibly not a valid copyright indicator. The © symbol is
> >unambiguous under the law, and thus preferred.
>
> "unambiguous under the law", but technical ambiguous. What character
> encoding should be used?
>
> IMHO "(c)" is the characte
Ben Finney wrote:
>> 1.the Derivative Work(s) constitute a good-faith partial or
>>recombined usage employing "sampling," "collage," "mash-up," or
>>other comparable artistic technique, whether now known or hereafter
>>devised, that is highly transformative of the original, as
>>appropriate to the
On 5/15/07, Matthew Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
How about:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/legalcode with 4. d.
added saying:
You may not publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally
perform the Work except as part of the game and you may not
Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
> IMHO "(c)" is the character representation of the copyright symbol,
> and when you print it, you should substitute with the correct symbol,
> as the "ff", "ffl", "fl", .. ligatures.
No. Either use the symbol and indicate which character set encoding
you are using (e.g
Ben Finney wrote:
Shriramana Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I have heard that in copyright declarations like:
Copyright (C) 2007, Company X, Country Y. All rights reserved.
---
it is incorrect to use (C) in place of the symbol © which is the
strict copyright symbol. Is this so? If
Shriramana Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have heard that in copyright declarations like:
> Copyright (C) 2007, Company X, Country Y. All rights reserved.
> ---
>
> it is incorrect to use (C) in place of the symbol © which is the
> strict copyright symbol. Is this so? If yes, why?
Shriramana Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I remember reading that the GFDL is not DFSG-free (due to some clauses
> regarding invariant sections or something)
The Debian project is in the strange situation that a license which
has many freeness issues[0] has been voted explicitly free withou
Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> it is incorrect to use (C) in place of the symbol ? which is the strict
> copyright symbol. Is this so? If yes, why?
Strictly speaking it is incorrect. But apart from pedantry there is
no reason to speak so strictly.
http://www.iusmentis.com/copyright/notice/
Arnoud
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:14:31PM +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> it is incorrect to use (C) in place of the symbol © which is the strict
> copyright symbol. Is this so? If yes, why?
IANAL etc.
The formal copyright notice is required in some (very few) countries for a
foreign work to get copy
I have applied corrections based on your comments and herewith enclose
the new draft of the header for the source files. If it is approved by
this list as no faults are found, I will go ahead and use it.
Please if there are any faults that must be corrected, tell me. If I do
not receive any such
Hello.
I have heard that in copyright declarations like:
---
Copyright (C) 2007, Company X, Country Y. All rights reserved.
---
it is incorrect to use (C) in place of the symbol © which is the strict
copyright symbol. Is this so? If yes, why?
Further, whether (C) or ©, isn't
Hello list.
I remember reading that the GFDL is not DFSG-free (due to some clauses
regarding invariant sections or something) so I would like to know what
is a DFSG-free license for documentation, since a project I am working
on wants to license its documentation in a DFSG-free way.
Thanks.
Mark H. Weaver explains why scummvm games should be in non-free in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-users/2007-05/msg00072.html
and Justin Baugh replied pointing to
http://packages.debian.org/stable/games/beneath-a-steel-sky
The troublesome clause in the copyright licence is probably
"3
[Cc:ing -legal, but please try to follow-up on only one list]
I am having a chat tonight with people from the FSF. Despite the
inevitable disagreements between Debian and the FSF, I am willing to
cooperate in a constructive manner on as many topic as possible. Here
are the topics we'll be di
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