Re: About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-13 Thread Walter Landry
Rogério Brito wrote: > P.S.: Please, as I am not a native speaker of English, feel free to > correct my grammar, style or anything that would improve the text. Here you go. Feel free to ignore any or all of my suggestions. Cheers, Walter Landry Re: Software Licence for URW Garamo

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-13 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, pabs. 2010/4/14 Paul Wise : > I'd strongly suggest to indicate a preference about which license you > would like them to choose. That's very good. But how should the request be phrased? Should it be a formal letter? Since you are a native English speaker, can you suggest any rewording? Other

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-13 Thread Paul Wise
I'd strongly suggest to indicate a preference about which license you would like them to choose. I would personally suggest standard FLOSS licenses like BSD, MIT/Expat, ISC, GPL + font exception etc. If those aren't acceptable, the SIL OFL is a DFSG-compatible compromise between font foundry needs

Re: Joke non-free clauses?

2010-04-13 Thread Paul Wise
Some points: Jokes are great, but licenses are not the place to make them. Come to DebConf and make them over conversation and $BEVERAGE instead. License proliferation is bad, license standardisation/consolidation is good! The DUMB license is extremely far from clear. License clarity is extremel

About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

2010-04-13 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear people, Below is a draft of a letter that I intend to send to (URW)++ to try to get them to release the URW Garamond No. 8 fonts in a license that is free according to the DFSG. This move was suggested to me by Khaled Hosny, a member of the Arabic TeX community. I am open to comments and cr

Re: Joke non-free clauses?

2010-04-13 Thread Ben Davis
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:42:22 +0800 "Shan-Bin Chen (DreamerC)" wrote: > They forked a new version from 0.9.2 , and the library in Debian is 0.9.3 . > I think the problem that could be solved between versions. > > Because the authors in deadbeef want to release with GPL and LGPL Version 2, > I'm s

Re: License of z-push

2010-04-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > In addition you could just keep the packaging in your SVN repo and > expect people to build the package manually. It was pointed out that, depending on how you do it, this could be considered distribution. Alioth (svn.d.o) is not hosted in the

Re: Re: License of z-push

2010-04-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Wolfram Quester wrote: >> In addition, like Fedora, Debian probably wouldn't distribute it >> because of the patent risk. > > Yes, but I still don't know which patent might be violated :-( Probably one of these: http://www.google.com/patents?q=ActiveSync Looks

Re: Re: License of z-push

2010-04-13 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi Paul, thanks for your reply! > Since Debian servers (ftp-master & mirrors) are located in the USA, > the license forbids it from being distributed by Debian: > > http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=ries > > In addition, like Fedora, Debian probably wouldn't distribute it > because of the

Re: License of z-push

2010-04-13 Thread Paul Wise
Since Debian servers (ftp-master & mirrors) are located in the USA, the license forbids it from being distributed by Debian: http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=ries In addition, like Fedora, Debian probably wouldn't distribute it because of the patent risk. berlios is probably technically in

License of z-push

2010-04-13 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi altogether, On debian's goupware-meeting, [1] I started to work on packaging z-push [2] for debian. Z-push is a software to syncronise ActiveSync-capable phones to your groupware server. It is licensed under GPLv2, however the LICENSE file starts with > NOTE: According to sec. 8 of the GNU Gene