Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 09:51:46AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Chow Loong Jin writes: > > On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 13:57 +, MJ Ray wrote: > > >[...] I'm not sure that it matters what you call the mobile > > >component, if that "data file" is really some sort of program that > > >has sources which

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-27 Thread Ben Finney
Chow Loong Jin writes: > On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 13:57 +, MJ Ray wrote: > >[...] I'm not sure that it matters what you call the mobile > >component, if that "data file" is really some sort of program that > >has sources which aren't usable. How is that jar different from a > >PDF in this way? >

Packaging cluedome - copyright problems?

2009-03-27 Thread Tristan Greaves
Hi, I'm taking a look at packaging the game Cluedome: http://www.cluedome.com/ I'm wondering if there are any copyright concerns. The game advertises itself as a clone, and the source ships with an example game rules rule and image -- which match that of the board came Clue/Cluedo. Fo

Re: issues with the AGPL

2009-03-27 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 03:23:21PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > On Tuesday 24 March 2009 20:32:10 MJ Ray wrote: > > Here the scenario becomes impossible IMO - if Z is truly a bad actor, > > Z will always either find a way to withhold their source code or > > develop on an alternative A's appl

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-27 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Fri Mar 27 14:57, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 13:57 +, MJ Ray wrote: > >[...] > > I'm not sure that it matters what you call the mobile component, if > > that "data file" is really some sort of program that has sources which > > aren't usable. How is that jar different fro

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-27 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 13:57 +, MJ Ray wrote: >[...] > I'm not sure that it matters what you call the mobile component, if > that "data file" is really some sort of program that has sources which > aren't usable. How is that jar different from a PDF in this way? Unless I'm mistaken, a PDF witho

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-27 Thread MJ Ray
Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 11:24 +, MJ Ray wrote: > > Chow Loong Jin wrote: [...] > > > For the Python part, the sources are completely distributed, and no > > > binaries are in the tarball. However, for the Java part, only the .jar > > > is distributed in the tarball. I

Re: Combining Apache with GPL in one package - Re: libxdoclet-java_1.2.3-2_i386.changes REJECTED

2009-03-27 Thread Florian Grandel
Hi Leandro, thanks for your response and especially for the link you posted. :-) Leandro Doctors schrieb: ...But you can mix code licensed under the ASLv2 with code licensed under the GPLv3[0]. (In fact, AFAIC, to improve license compatibility -in this case, with the ASLv2- was one of the objec

Re: Combining Apache with GPL in one package - Re: libxdoclet-java_1.2.3-2_i386.changes REJECTED

2009-03-27 Thread Florian Grandel
I have to make a correction from my earlier post. I said: core library licensed under GPLv2 This is not true. See [1] for the core xdoclet license which doesn't seem to be any standard license. Some other (parts of) xdoclet modules are licensed under GPLv2, however. The basic question ther

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-27 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 11:24 +, MJ Ray wrote: > Chow Loong Jin wrote: [...] > > For the Python part, the sources are completely distributed, and no > > binaries are in the tarball. However, for the Java part, only the .jar > > is distributed in the tarball. I have contacted the upstream develop

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-27 Thread MJ Ray
Chow Loong Jin wrote: [...] > For the Python part, the sources are completely distributed, and no > binaries are in the tarball. However, for the Java part, only the .jar > is distributed in the tarball. I have contacted the upstream developer > about this issue, and he will be releasing another t

Combining Apache with GPL in one package - Re: libxdoclet-java_1.2.3-2_i386.changes REJECTED

2009-03-27 Thread Leandro Doctors
2009/3/27 Florian Grandel : > From what I read, I understood that I cannot re-license something that has > been Apache 2.0 as GPLv2 or vice versa. ...But you can mix code licensed under the ASLv2 with code licensed under the GPLv3[0]. (In fact, AFAIC, to improve license compatibility -in this case,