Re: geotrans license: asking for advice

2008-10-09 Thread Joe Smith
"Peter S Galbraith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Roberto Lumbreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi... I have packaged a nice software called geotrans (ITP #468918): http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/geotrans/ whose author is NGA (US National Geospatial-Intelligence

Re: Alternatives to Creative Commons

2008-10-09 Thread Joe Smith
The following is a bit of a late reply, but I is probably still worth making. "Matthijs Kooijman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In short, I think it is better to avoid the matter alltogether and not try to make section 3 apply to this work. This automatically happ

Re: Apple patent on Dock affecting dock packages ?

2008-10-09 Thread Julien Lavergne
Le jeudi 09 octobre 2008 à 12:07 -0700, Walter Landry a écrit : > Julien Lavergne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > There is now a patent for Apple of the concept of "Dock". Is there a > > risk for all "dock" packages in Debian, such as avant-window-navigator ? > > There is a patent risk

Re: DFSG-compatibility of CSIRO license

2008-10-09 Thread Ben Finney
Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here is the README file: Thank you. > Copyright 2000-2002 CSIRO Marine Research Full copyright statement, including years and legal entity. Good. > There is no warranty whatsoever. Use at your own risk. Normal warranty disclaimer. No effect o

debian/copyright vs year/author permutations

2008-10-09 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hi, Given that accurately listing the copyright holder (together with the years) for all files in a package is encouraged/required, I'm wondering how to deal with the following problem: In one of my packages, there are hundreds of files, most of which have more than copyright holder, but since th

Re: Apple patent on Dock affecting dock packages ?

2008-10-09 Thread Walter Landry
Julien Lavergne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > There is now a patent for Apple of the concept of "Dock". Is there a > risk for all "dock" packages in Debian, such as avant-window-navigator ? There is a patent risk for every package in Debian. Until someone starts enforcing a patent, the de

Re: DFSG-compatibility of CSIRO license

2008-10-09 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-10-09 09:05]: > Please post the complete text of the license terms (and, preferably, > preceded by the grant of license on the work) here in this thread so > we can discuss it in context. Here is the README file:

Re: Apple patent on Dock affecting dock packages ?

2008-10-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 07:40:15PM +0200, Julien Lavergne wrote: > Hi, > > There is now a patent for Apple of the concept of "Dock". Is there a > risk for all "dock" packages in Debian, such as avant-window-navigator ? FWIW, the patent is more about zooming docks like the OSX one than plain docks

Re: geotrans license: asking for advice

2008-10-09 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Roberto Lumbreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi... > > I have packaged a nice software called geotrans (ITP #468918): > http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/geotrans/ > whose author is NGA (US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency). You > can find my work at http://rover.thehackers.org/geotrans/

Apple patent on Dock affecting dock packages ?

2008-10-09 Thread Julien Lavergne
Hi, There is now a patent for Apple of the concept of "Dock". Is there a risk for all "dock" packages in Debian, such as avant-window-navigator ? Slashdot article : http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/1224224 The patent : http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=7,434,1

geotrans license: asking for advice

2008-10-09 Thread Roberto Lumbreras
Hi... I have packaged a nice software called geotrans (ITP #468918): http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/geotrans/ whose author is NGA (US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency). You can find my work at http://rover.thehackers.org/geotrans/ The package provides a GUI written in java that is like a

similar, but not same

2008-10-09 Thread Riku Voipio
Dont' cc: me, please continue at debian-legal. Dude, you are opening a can of worms here. According to openarena pages, both of these models have been created by openarena authors - thus they are not direct copies. http://openarena.wikia.com/wiki/Kyonshi http://openarena.wikia.com/wiki/Grism Th