Re: (C) vs ©

2007-05-23 Thread Ben Finney
"Anthony W. Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Ben Finney writes: > >"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> What character encoding should be used? > > > >The same encoding as the rest of the file. > > And if that encoding is 7-bit ascii ??? Copyright law allows for two cop

Re: (C) vs ©

2007-05-23 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes "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

Re: License-Question (expanded GPL)

2007-05-23 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cord Beermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Hi. I want to add a package to Debian with the following License-Statement: The Simple PHP Blog is released under the GNU Public License. It's the GNU *General

Re: Can a font with an unfree character be free?

2007-05-23 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes On Mon, 14 May 2007, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 5/14/07, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Considering the fact that the actual symbol is a white wheelchair on a >blue background, it's not clear that a black font wo

Re: (C) vs ©

2007-05-23 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Giacomo A. Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes 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 (

Re: help with crafting proper license header for a dual-licensing project

2007-05-23 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Shriramana Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes As many people have pointed out, I realize I should be saying "proprietary" when I used the word "commercial". I also realize that the GPL does not preclude "commercial" == "for profit" usage. I was merely echoing the

Re: Programs made by teenagers

2007-05-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 23 May 2007, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > I might package a game created by a teenager, so I wanted to make sure that > the fact thas she's minor wouldn't be a problem. I don't know if she has > right to license what she does, or it must be her parents, or something like > that. Any thoughts on thi

Programs made by teenagers

2007-05-23 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Hi, I might package a game created by a teenager, so I wanted to make sure that the fact thas she's minor wouldn't be a problem. I don't know if she has right to license what she does, or it must be her parents, or something like that. Any thoughts on this? Is there any difference in her being ov

Re: Request for suggestions of DFSG-free documentation licences

2007-05-23 Thread MJ Ray
Shriramana Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > 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 docum

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-23 Thread MJ Ray
Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > 1. The GPLv3: the latest draft did not raise major objections from > -legal and despite its concerns with the strategies developed in some > sections, Debian does consider it DFSG-free. [...] A big one of those concerns is the way it combines ba