Re: Compatibility of GPLv2 and Apache v2 (OpenSSL again)

2018-12-04 Thread Ben Finney
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior writes: > GPL software has an exception clause in order to link against OpenSSL > which has the advertising clause. This appears to be a statement that any work licensed under GNU GPL has such an exception. That is not true, to my knowledge. > Clamav for instance has t

Compatibility of GPLv2 and Apache v2 (OpenSSL again)

2018-12-04 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Hi, GPL software has an exception clause in order to link against OpenSSL which has the advertising clause. Clamav for instance has this piece: | In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give | permission to link the code of portions of this program with the | OpenSSL library un

Bug#915537: MongoDB SSPL v1 license and the DFSG

2018-12-04 Thread Apollon Oikonomopoulos
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal [ Continuing the thread in debian-legal[0] and Cc'ing debian-legal as well ] Dear FTP masters, I would like your opinion on whether MongoDB's new SSPL license is suitable for inclusion in the main archive. To give a bit of background, MongoDB was pre

Re: Hacking License

2018-12-04 Thread Giacomo Tesio
Il giorno mar 4 dic 2018 alle ore 12:07 Xavier ha scritto: > > Le 04/12/2018 à 11:17, Giacomo Tesio a écrit : > > > > To be honest, to my untrained eye the tentacle of evil test might be a > > case against GNU License common use of "or (at your option) any later > > version." because if a project

Re: Hacking License

2018-12-04 Thread Xavier
Le 04/12/2018 à 11:17, Giacomo Tesio a écrit : > Hi Xavier actually, before writing to the debian-legal list, I > compared the license against the three tests > (I've found the "The tentacle of evil test" on the Wikipedia page > about DFSG, > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guid

Re: Hacking License

2018-12-04 Thread Giacomo Tesio
Hi Xavier actually, before writing to the debian-legal list, I compared the license against the three tests (I've found the "The tentacle of evil test" on the Wikipedia page about DFSG, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guidelines#debian-legal_tests_for_DFSG_compliance). Il giorn

Re: Hacking License

2018-12-04 Thread Giacomo Tesio
Hi Andrej thanks for your objections. Il giorno mar 4 dic 2018 alle ore 09:58 Andrej Shadura ha scritto: > > In particular, I have > > 1) removed requirement to change the logo (see [1] from Francesco Poli). > >That requirements was not there to protect the brand of the authors but > >to

Re: Hacking License

2018-12-04 Thread Xavier
Le 04/12/2018 à 10:07, Giacomo Tesio a écrit : > Il December 4, 2018 6:04:59 AM UTC, Ben Finney ha > scritto: >> If you want to release a work of software compatible with Debian, please >> do everyone – yourself included – a huge favour and choose an existing, >> well-understood, known-by-copyrig

Re: Hacking License

2018-12-04 Thread Andrej Shadura
On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 at 01:34, Giacomo Tesio wrote: > > Hi, I've just published a new version of the Hacking License that > receipts some of the objections proposed on debian-legal and on > copyleft-next. > > In particular, I have > 1) removed requirement to change the logo (see [1] from Francesco P

Re: Hacking License

2018-12-04 Thread Giacomo Tesio
Il December 4, 2018 6:04:59 AM UTC, Ben Finney ha scritto: >If you want to release a work of software compatible with Debian, please >do everyone – yourself included – a huge favour and choose an existing, >well-understood, known-by-copyright-experts-to-be-effective free >license already used for