Re: BOINC: lib/cal.h license issue agree with the DFSG?

2010-01-02 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 02 Jan 2010, Nicolas Alvarez wrote: > Francesco Poli wrote: > > Where is this proprietary library distributed? > > In AMD website. > > If the user downloads it and installs it, BOINC will use it, and will be > able to detect your ATI cards. In order to use the proprietary library, it >

Re: BOINC: lib/cal.h license issue agree with the DFSG?

2010-01-02 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Francesco Poli wrote: > Where is this proprietary library distributed? In AMD website. If the user downloads it and installs it, BOINC will use it, and will be able to detect your ATI cards. In order to use the proprietary library, it uses the function declarations in the cal.h header distribut

Re: BOINC: lib/cal.h license issue agree with the DFSG?

2010-01-02 Thread Andrew Dalke
On Jan 2, 2010, at 2:11 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > No, it's not different at all - and a license that says "you aren't allowed > to do anything illegal with this software" is *not* DFSG-compliant. Civil > disobedience should not result in violations of the copyright licenses of > software in Debi

Re: BOINC: lib/cal.h license issue agree with the DFSG?

2010-01-02 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:01:01 -0300 Nicolas Alvarez wrote: [...] > Note that cal.h is a header file containing only function declarations and > no actual code (although I guess what counts as 'actual code' is debatable). > The matching function definitions are in a proprietary library that the >

Re: BOINC: lib/cal.h license issue agree with the DFSG?

2010-01-02 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Saturday 02 January 2010 10:15:19 am Francesco Poli wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:13:58 -0800 Sean Kellogg wrote: > > > On Friday 01 January 2010 2:57:18 pm Francesco Poli wrote: > > > > /* > > > > > > > > Copyright (c) 2007 Advance

Re: BOINC: lib/cal.h license issue agree with the DFSG?

2010-01-02 Thread Sean Kellogg
[dropping pkg-boinc-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org as I don't think they care about this...] On Saturday 02 January 2010 10:38:52 am Francesco Poli wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 17:11:09 -0800 Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 03:13:58PM -0800, Sean Kellogg wrote: > > > On Friday 0

Re: BOINC: lib/cal.h license issue agree with the DFSG?

2010-01-02 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Fernando C. Estrada wrote: > The BOINC source code were debianized to packages that meet the DFSG, > and the Copyright include only compatible licenses (discarding all the > files that don't comply with the DFSG from the Debian packages). Now, > the doubt is in the lib/cal.h file, because includes

Re: BOINC: lib/cal.h license issue agree with the DFSG?

2010-01-02 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 17:31:13 -0800 Sean Kellogg wrote: [...] > You are quite right... I failed to notice Francesco was talking > just about /modification/. That certainly is a problem and clearly > runs afoul of DFSG #3. My apologies. Apologies accepted, but please try and avoid jumping up so fast

Re: BOINC: lib/cal.h license issue agree with the DFSG?

2010-01-02 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:13:58 -0800 Sean Kellogg wrote: > On Friday 01 January 2010 2:57:18 pm Francesco Poli wrote: > > > /* > > > > > > Copyright (c) 2007 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved. > > > > > > Redistribution an

Re: BOINC: lib/cal.h license issue agree with the DFSG?

2010-01-02 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 17:11:09 -0800 Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 03:13:58PM -0800, Sean Kellogg wrote: > > On Friday 01 January 2010 2:57:18 pm Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > > This is a choice of venue clause. > > > Choice of venue clauses are controversial and have been discuss