trademarks [Was: Re: Ubuntu trademark non-free?]

2010-08-17 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Hello list, it follows some comments, corrections and questions about trademarks, based on Steve answer; not realyl relevant to the initial question/bug. On 11.08.2010 07:27, Steve Langasek wrote: If the source code of a package shipped in Debian is identical to that provided upstream under th

Re: Another extended BSD licence :-/

2010-08-17 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 17.08.2010 13:39, Simon Richter wrote: Hi, I have been asked to provide packages for a small piece of software that uses this licence: This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arisi

Re: Another extended BSD licence :-/

2010-08-17 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 01:39:33PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > The first three paragraphs look like a BSD licence to me, paragraph four > is a personal rant from the authors. Apart from the obvious (remove > everything following "no x86-only assembly code..."), what else would be > needed to make

Another extended BSD licence :-/

2010-08-17 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, I have been asked to provide packages for a small piece of software that uses this licence: This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software. Perm